Best program for writing a long book with lots of references

I am now using Word from Microsoft Office '08 for the Mac. It is getting slower as the number of pages and references increase. Is there a better and faster program compatible with my PowerBook G4 that can do that?

I agree that you should check out scrivener and neo office. I find office for mac 2008 a buggy mess. And, this is the deal breaker for me - you can't resize the formatting palette so actually using it is impossible and hence manipulating styles is a total pain. That said, if you don't like neo office or scrivener there is always the virtual machine (expensive) solution as you have to buy either parallels or vmware fusion, windows, and ms office for windows. You can cut the cost a tad by using boot camp, but then you can't run both systems at the same time. While I love pages, it won't cut it for an extremely long complex project and it can't do intra-document references (ibid p. x), indexing, multiple tables of contents.

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