Using word to write...

Using word to write articles is a rather perverted art. E.g., why are the "regular expression" different from every other syntax I met and there are two different syntaxes depending whether you are using jolly characters or not?

Why is the bibliographic tools such a joke that almost everybody does it by hand (and, moreover, many conferences explicitly tell you to do it by hand? and the W2007 implementation is not compatible with W2003 – at least that is the opinion of W2007 on that matter)

And using images is a PITA. But that is a PITA with Latex as well. Last but not least, I have yet to understand why a PDF created with word for windows visualize bold characters (I'm following the IEEE template, so changing the font is not an option... besides, it's times new roman) with a *different* non-bold font when opened on the Mac. If it were not such a standard font I would have said it's a matter of not including the font.