Comment Re:Long live TeX and LaTeX (Score 1) 479
I feel your pain, but you have to admit that trying to creating a Poster in Word is bad idea in any case.
When we're saying things like 'passable document' and 'basic computer skills' we're really talking about letters, CV's, low volume bills, documentation, etc. Basically; mostly anything with 90% text and 10% images/graphs/other.
(But let's not talk about all the people that mis-use Word; like people that will insist on sending me a screenshot embedded in a Word file... Can't you just, send me a png, a bmp, I'll even accept jpeg?)