People would do well to spend some time reading the help files as there are a lot of features that can save the lumbering mass of the business world a lot of time.
When I have to do things from my phone I find it very helpful to edit in vim, within screen on a remote server. I know the server will remain running despite local network issues, and that over a low baud rate I can still do things well.
]]>We had Office XP on the systems at the college whilst I was using Office 2000 or similar at home. This meant that when I saved/emailed work for use at home I'd loose really basic formatting information between the two formats. Things as basic as paragraph numbering for example.
The more edits between the sites would add a massive reformatting overhead. I remember phrases such as "I'm working on that at home" and the inverse were quite common, since editing it in two places caused ridiculous amounts of additional wasted effort.
There are other benefits with LaTeX that often go unnoticed such as making use of variables that can be passed in during compilation. I find this really useful, there's no need to maintain separate copies of the same file when only minor modifications are required.
LaTeX is also really easy to edit from your favourite text editor, for me this is vim, for you it could be Word. Can you save it as plain text from Word without smartquotes messing things up?
The other thing about using LaTeX/vim is that you can just get on with the flow of thought without something popping up and blocking you, such as clippy or autocorrect switching things and you have to fix.
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