Yes, initially it is far more effort into the document you want to create. But once you start to be familiar with the marcos and packages, then it become easier

Yes, initially it is far more effort into the document you want to create. But once you start to be familiar with the marcos and packages, then it become easier to do the document formatting. Honestly, I am still learning how to use LaTeX and I found it to be superior to Word because LaTeX allows me to edit it at the source (allowing finer control over the document) than relying on Word's WYSIWYG or any word processor to provide a virtual page until it is printed. The issue with WYSIWYG processor, there are chances that formatting will move around or clipped out the pages. That become more work to figure out how to get to fit in a single page, despite that WYSIWYG shows it is in the single page (the printed document show two pages). It is more hell to work with the table in Word than in LaTeX as Word have a weird table padding (really really hard to control this than in LaTeX) that lead the document to look a bit off. I started learning few weeks ago and now working on two additional documents because I start to understand of how to use it and it become quicker from there. But again every person have a different approach with learning LaTeX.