I have just managed to get LaTeX Editor working on my computer. Previously, it had been installed, but the built in document viewer wouldn’t work.
I’m really looking forward to learning it… I, for one, am fed up of Microsoft Office when it comes to lab reports. LaTeX makes much more sense to me. I’m hoping it will become a bit like HTML and CSS to me. It seems like a good idea that a document is produced mathematically. WYSIWYG editors tend to frustrate me in Web Design. I’m sure in the future it’ll be just the same for documents.
One of my favourite features about TeX is the fact the formatting is so much more flexible, and yet intuitive. You can put an Umlaut on an x (There must be a reason why you’d want to), and instead of typing alt+0252 (particularly frustrating on a laptop) every time you want to type a ü, you just type:

\"{u}

You’d never get anything that powerful in Word, and it’s not at all counter-intuitive either (not for me, anyway, but then I prefer the wordpress HTML editor to the WYSIWYG one.
Other features include, but are by no means limited to:

1. Automatic numbering of sections and equations
2. Built in equation tools
3. PDF Export
4. Built in templates which allow editing of different types of documents (and not those pointless templates you get in word)

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