[ams6110]

Do most people actually use Word for large documents? Or is it mostly short letters, memos, etc. where paragraph styles would be overkill.

I myself would never consider Word for anything over about 2 pages, but I'm guessing I'm in the minority on that.

[djloche]

Yes. As far as I understand, it's the standard for legal documents due to the ability to redline changes, add comments, and send it back and forth between clients/consultants/etc. Not exactly groundbreaking features today, but that's the current status.

[spc476]

A friend of mine used Microsoft Word to write a few books. Each book was a single file, and he would bitch about the problems all the time. I think he still uses Word.

[yen223]

To paraphrase Churchill, Word is the worst text processor, except for all others that have been tried.

[Evbn]

What could a publisher possibly do with a word file, except laboriously copy/paste the text into a typesetting program?