Author-it vs Word-based Tools

Author-it avoids the well-known limitations of other authoring software that are just "clip-ons" to MS Word. Author-it only uses Word to publish printed documents. Intelligent management of Word during the publishing process minimizes Word's memory problems, especially with long or complex documents. Word-based authoring tools often have trouble handling long or complex documents, and can't produce all the output formats supported by Author-it.