I asked because documents produced in MS Word have an unprofessional smell to them, especially when they use Word's defaults line spacing, line length and fonts

I asked because documents produced in MS Word have an unprofessional smell to them, especially when they use Word's defaults line spacing, line length and fonts. Also, style discrepancies eventually creep in as you generate more documents. LaTeX provides better typesetting defaults than Microsoft word, but it fails as a publishing tool. It's trivial to typeset the text, but if you try to emulate the layout of a reference datasheet it's an uphill battle to layout graphics where you want them. No doubt LaTeX could be made to work but is it the tool that established documentation teams are reaching for?