Software for writing novels

I've written three books using CDraw because it was easy to set the page up to mimic the pages in print, but I had problems with spell checking, find/replace text, etc in chapters beyond 15 or so pages. Is there anybody who has written a novel (80k+ words) and can recommend a decent piece of software? I'm not looking for bells and whistles or anything that employs templates, just a straightforward writing environment on a Windows laptop. Grammar check is a must as I seem to be word blind to what's actually typed! Not MS Word, please!

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  • Have you tried WordPerfect Office?
    Does what you want, handles large documents, has good spell-checker and grammar checker (actually the same as CGS) and can publish .
    You can try it for free for 30days from www.wordperfect.com
    It's not MS, but reads Word files well - can read old versions better than Word 2010!
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