Hmm, yeah, OK, sorry to pick on your post.
People are using Word wrong. Treat it like a HTML page and all is good. First, write your text (HTML). Second, make the formatting (CSS). Done, done and done. Don't try and do both at the same time.
Flow control? That's what "Keep with next", "Widow/orphan control" and "keep lines together" are for. All can be set with styles.
Frame control is a few right clicks away. Once you have one frame correct, use the format painter on the rest. This is done at the end of the job.
There are more styles than you can use. These have the same variables as CSS. Apply them at the end. They can be changed globally or on the fly, the choice is yours.
If you're re-tweeking formatting as you're typing, you are doing it wrong. Unless you have a fully working template to start with, and I have never ever seen one of those, even the ones I've written, you cannot apply formatting until the text is 99% complete.
I should teach this shit for money.