[teakettle42]

> If you have a ton of figures and not a ton of equations it’s not the best choice to use latex.

Strong disagree; wysiwyg editing in Word is an exercise in endless frustration, and Word’s typesetting and fonts are so ugly that it’s painfully obvious when a paper has been written using Word.

Just write LaTeX and let it do the typesetting, figure layout, citation formatting, etc. It’s less painful than Word WYSIWYG editing, and the result is far more polished.

[chipotle_coyote]

While I have a lot of complaints with Word, I have to very tepidly take issue with the accusation of ugly fonts. You may like TeX's default typefaces more than Word's, but those are just the defaults. You can set a LaTeX document in Calibri and (presuming you have an OTF version of the fonts) a Word document in Computer Modern.

Word doesn't really do typesetting, though. You can make credible camera-ready output with it if you're rigorous with styles and learn how to anchor figures and images correctly, but the line and page breaks will still say "hi, I'm a word processor."