There is no doubt that LaTeX produces way more beautiful documents than Microsoft Word, even if Word defaults settings are changed. The thing is people need a

There is no doubt that LaTeX produces way more beautiful documents than Microsoft Word, even if Word defaults settings are changed. The thing is people need a word processor that comes out of the box with professional fonts, nice alignment parameters. They sure don't want a piece of software that begs them to download fuzzy fonts and paste text from a web page without reformatting all of this... People don't want to learn a language for writing text either. They don't want to spend hours to find this package that would looks so great drawing a horizontal line under the header. Apple Pages is a good alternative, it's my choice for creating professional documents (and believe me, I'm a real typomaniac) without losing time with LaTeX.