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Title: Word almost does everything LaTeX does...
Review: I bought this book a couple of months ago, planning to write my thesis using it. In the beginning, I could not comprehend what was going on. After a while, I started understanding it, but the number of times I needed to refer to the book even to do something simple exasperated me in no time. While it's true that the quality of the output is superlative to word processing packages, I wonder if it's worth the time you need to put into it. I had to spend nearly a hour just to change the margins on the page! MS Word began to look more and more attractive to me and I managed to get an automatic table of contents using the styles options in it. Maybe LaTeX will become easy, but right now, I am sticking with Word. The book is good, but the software itself is not all that useful in the present day context.
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