Adobe challenges word on the web and shares documents too

They said they were not planning to challenge Microsoft but the headline on the BBC web site says it all.

At MAX today several announcements were made. My favourite is share. A new web site allows you to share documents among a group. It features previews of the documents pages done with a Flash interface.

On the word processor front I have recently be studgloing with Word 2007. Its always been needlessly complicated and overkill for what I need in a word processor. The latest version seems to fight me at every turn. All the features I want are hidden way down in the menu structure or completely removed from the menu altogether.

I was trying to number some paragraphs last week. There seems to be no way in word 2007 to do it easily. In earlier versions I could just set paragraph numbering on. In 2007 you actually have to type the numbers and then Word sort of undertands that you mean number my paragraphs.

Other times it assumes you want to number paragraphs just because the line starts with a number, when you really just want a number ate the start of the sentence.

I would realy like a small lightweight wordprocessor.