> I think there was talk of MS Word, too, and also a flop?

There was a port of MS Word, and it worked well. For some strange historical reasons I can't recall now, though, it was called and marketed as MS Write instead.

Write was the extremely basic free wordprocessor in Windows 3.x -- and so the name did the ST version a grave disservice.

https://www.atarimagazines.com/startv3n1/microsoftwrite.html