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Last time I tried it, MS Word did not have most of these features. Large documents frequently corrupt themselves. Changing a style requires touching every use of it to update. Hyphenation is manual. Justification sucks. Diagrams are not portable between Mac and PC versions. Etc. Word is not capable of handling real documents. Great for cranking out font laden memos and letters, though. Framemaker is written for creating large, complex documents. And has the learning curve to go with it. If you can learn Frame Maker, you can learn TeX or LaTeX. The TeX book by Knuth, the original LaTeX by Leslie Lamport, and "A Guide to LaTeX2e" by Kopka and Daly are all excellent technical guides. DocBook has approximately the same amount of learning. But TeX/LaTeX is a more mature technology and the software is better integrated. And TeX/LaTeX is much better than anything besides a live, experienced human being at producing beautifully laid out typesetting. Just my 2 cents USD, Jeffrey