My two cents.

Stay with Word for the entire project? Simply put, NO. If you have a legitimate alternative, take it. While true Word is capable of performing sort of, so-so, (Ok, sometimes it is capable of good) layout, again, if you have a legitimate real layout application IMO, use it.

I am not familiar with Page Plus, but I took a look at its page. This is the $99 one. It looks decent enough. Probably better than what Word can do. Don`t know what the learning curve would be. Are you familiar with it?


I notice that it has eBook support. That may be a smart feature on their part, along with everything else. eBook and Word issues have come up in the forums more and more.