It’s fine as long as you don’t try to write quicky, or get into the zone as you write, or format the text, or use multimedia elements, or - god forbid - enter a bulleted list. The combination of the massive install file, slow operating, unintuitive layout, and fully just broken autoformatting means that using Word adds like 20-30% to the completion time of any project longer than a page, in addition to making it look like crap unless you invest a ton of effort.
Word would instantly fail if launched today as a new product. It exists and is used because Microsoft has a monopoly on office software, and for no other reason. Even Apple’s alternative is better despite having no new features, just because some effort was put in to make it look decent and give the user control over the document.
And yeah latex is excellent for the end results, although it’s also clunky and awkward to actually compose in.
Microsoft Word works fine the few times that I do use it, but I mostly use LATEX and maybe some markdown.
It’s fine as long as you don’t try to write quicky, or get into the zone as you write, or format the text, or use multimedia elements, or - god forbid - enter a bulleted list. The combination of the massive install file, slow operating, unintuitive layout, and fully just broken autoformatting means that using Word adds like 20-30% to the completion time of any project longer than a page, in addition to making it look like crap unless you invest a ton of effort.
Word would instantly fail if launched today as a new product. It exists and is used because Microsoft has a monopoly on office software, and for no other reason. Even Apple’s alternative is better despite having no new features, just because some effort was put in to make it look decent and give the user control over the document.
And yeah latex is excellent for the end results, although it’s also clunky and awkward to actually compose in.