Nisus also has character styles, unlike Word, which is limited to paragraph styles. In addition, Word styles import into page layout programs well. Nisus hasn't a thing. Columnar Layout Word. Nisus lets you mark locations in the text and refer to them by page number elsewhere in the document.
Word has nothing here.
Spell-checking and Thesaurus Both lousy in both programs. But neither program lets you set parameters. Glossary Now virtually identical. The Word 5.0 interface is undeniably easy and inviting. However, both programs have essentially the same actual capacities.