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by chipotle_coyote 1432 days ago
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."