First of all, LaTeX and Word are two types of typesetting tools. Word's "principle" is what you see is what you get, while LaTex generates pdf through command compilation, which means what you see is what you get. Second, the form and content of Word are not clearly separated, while LaTex completely separates form and content. 3. Genuine Word is paid closed software, while LaTex is free. Anyone can write a macro package to enrich its content and the wisdom of the masses. There are too many typesetting requirements that can be realized, only you can't think of it, and you can't do it without it. Fourthly, there is no professional typesetting software for text typesetting, and the quality of latex typesetting can be printed directly. 5.Word can be used by anyone, and LaTex needs a period of familiarity, especially the commonly used commands and macro packages. In addition, the LaTex command has syntax. If you make a grammatical mistake, even if you make a punctuation mistake, the compilation will not pass. So, learn to debug your own mistakes.

Secondly, the positioning of Word lies in office documents, while LaTeX pays attention to the typesetting of professional scientific and technological documents. The positioning of the two does not cross, and they are not good at each other's fields, so it is difficult to make in-depth comparisons.

As far as typesetting of scientific and technological documents is concerned, LaTeX has more uniform and reasonable line spacing control, perfect and convenient mathematical formula typesetting (even if MathType is added to Word, it is far less than LaTeX), floating body function (pictures and tables can be adjusted adaptively to prevent large vertical blank in documents) and convenient cross-reference (including literature citation). Many institutions recommend that you use LaTeX typesetting when submitting scientific papers, and do not accept document manuscripts in the form of Word.

It is also important that LaTeX can directly generate pdf files without losing quality. Word to pdf often has various typesetting changes or quality loss. In addition, all the parameters in LaTeX can be precisely controlled by numbers, which enables its users to make almost all the styles they want to make.