[titanix2]

It includes at least me :) I switched to Latex for writing my second master thesis because I wanted to use version control but Word is far more easier to deal with when the document include unicode character outside the BMP. So I really wanted Word + git from that time.

Also when collaborating for writing a paper with Word, version control can be a huge help.

[gjjrfcbugxbhf]

Did you ever try Xelatex? I think it has support for arbitrary utf8 characters. Also for your system's built in fonts fallbacks is a character is missing from a font.

[TrickyRick]

Why not use something like Google docs or office 365 then?

[emodendroket]

Word has way more features than GDocs. Haven't spent time with O365 but as far as I know half the draw is you can use it with Office.