When I started grad school, I initially used LaTeX to prepare my articles. But then my advisor tried to open one of my documents on his machine (Windows, I'm u

When I started grad school, I initially used LaTeX to prepare my articles. But then my advisor tried to open one of my documents on his machine (Windows, I'm using a Mac) and some kind of weird error came up. So we spent one whole advising session with him searching for MiKTeX and installing it, whereupon my document still wouldn't load for whatever reason. Then once BibTeX got in the mix, it became even messier. Well, I finally finished the article and submitted it to a journal, but they had so many requirements for LaTeX submissions that it took a while to change everything for it. Once I finally submitted it -- surprise! -- their online LaTeX compiler came back with another weird error. It took me about 8 more submission attempts to isolate the "bug" (which was some kind of issue due to differences in versions and default packages installed on their machine vs mine), and I finally got a PDF generated. Except it still didn't look the same as mine for whatever reason. Well, the article got rejected from that journal, and so as I'm applying for another journal, I read "Word documents only". So I gave up on LaTeX. Too much of a hassle for me. Maybe it's a smooth process for everyone else, but I don't have any problems just typing a Word document and sending it off. (Although I do miss LaTeX's equation typesetting system.)