With MacWrite Pro 1.0, Claris beefed up its classic, low-end word processor with style sheets, text wrap around graphics, variable-width columns, independently formattable sections, and other advanced features, Mthout sacrificing MacWrite’s uncluttered interface. MacWrite Pro 1.5 has also added a handful of new features, the most significant of which is a table-of-contents function. You use styles to designate headings and subheadings up to five levels deep. You can specify format details for entries, such as whether the page number should appear to the right or the left of the entry. Finally, a command compiles the list of headings, creates a new section at the beginning of the document (or locates whichever section you specify for contents), and places the contents list there. Entries in the table of contents are fully editable and easy to format.
Other enhancements include the ability' to insert QuickTime movies in a document. Like graphics, movies appear in frames that you can move, add borders to, and wrap text around. You can crop movies, scale them, or hide them to speed up scrolling; on paper, MacWrite prints the currently displayed movie image.
If you use PowerTalk (part of System 7 Pro), you can add a mailer to any MacWrite document and E-mail it (in MacWrite or one of about a dozen other formats) or reply to or forward MacWrite Pro documents that you’ve received. If you are using a program that supports EGO (Edit Graphic Object) objects — only MathType (from Design Science) and microExpressionist (from Prescience) do so far — MacWrite’s Edit command automatically launches the program that created the graphic and, when you are finished editing, updates the graphic back in MacWrite.
Finally, many MacWrite functions can be automated with AppleScript (another part of System 7 Pro). You can use available AppleScript commands to create scripts that apply styles; search and replace; run mail merge; and insert text, graphics, or movies. More-complex operations, such as adding headers and footers or working with tables, are not supported, and there’s no create-by-example watch-me mode. Also, only AppleScript commands are defined in the MacWrite OSA (Open Scripting Architecture) Dictionary.
Overall, MacWrite Pro has kept its clean, uncluttered interface, not to mention its other positive attributes... Although still not as powerful as Microsoft Word (which does not support AppleScript, but can generate up to 18 different contents lists) or WordPerfect, MacWrite Pro remains an excellent choice for a low- to middle-level word processor.
Eckhardt, Robert C. (May 1994). MacWrite Pro 1.5. Macworld. (pg. 83).
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MacWrite_Pro_1.0v4_EN-US.sit
Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
Basilisk II
