In 1984, DisplayWrite 2 was released. The retail price of the product was now $299, and it featured menu navigation and included a number of enhancements over the original. It came on two 5.25" 360 KB floppy disks, and required just 192 KB of RAM and DOS version 2.1 to run. It added a powerful search and replace feature which allowed up to three search/replace strings at once, foreign language and scientific word processing support where pressing the ALT key in combination with another key provided access to the PC's international character set, with up to 12 languages. The spell-checker had a fairly decent 100,000-word dictionary and a "legal support" dictionary was available too, adding 16,000 legal terms to the vocabulary. One of its most advanced features was columns - with formatting such as left, centre and right-justification, decimal-aligning numeric columns, and the inclusion of line and column labels.

Another key feature of DisplayWrite 2 was its ability to assemble documents together. The 'Get' function is easy to use, allowing you to merge one DisplayWrite 2 document into another anywhere on the current document's text screen. You can also use this feature to import DOS ASCII text files.