I'm not sure it was a good test... Latex users do appear to be significantly faster at mathematical typing... which is obviously Latex's strong suit. What Late

I'm not sure it was a good test... Latex users do appear to be significantly faster at mathematical typing... which is obviously Latex's strong suit. What Latex is in general weaker than word at arbitrary formatting... its goal is to provide semantic markeup for large scale academic writing. Also, apparently its difficult to use Latex's table system compared to word (though tables in word are particularly easy!)