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With Microsoft Word, I regularly wait 2 full seconds () to go from the Table of contents to the document paragraph. The software feels slow in general. I prefer Notepad++, but it doesn't do automatic Table of Content, as far as I understand, nor rich editing (by which I mean: Heading 1 / Heading 2 etc formatting, colors, etc).
Does anyone know of a fast rich text editor to replace Microsoft Word?
Personally, I really like LaTeX. However I also know there's a lot of people who don't like it since it's not a WYSIWYG editor. If you want to try LaTeX but stick to the WYSIWYG philosophy, maybe try LyX. LyX somewhat limits LaTeX in what it's capable of (in my opinion), but it's a good starting point...
You could stay with Notepad++ and use Markdown plus Pandoc.
Markdown WYSIWYG editing can be done via Stackedit.
Notepad++ is restricted to edit pure text files without formatting and layout. However, if you edit page description languages like HTML, LaTeX or Markdown, you get a properly layouted document in the end. But it takes an additional rendering step.
