If you want to find out more about that, there's a separate page dedicated to converting from MS Word to LaTeX format. Of course, one should also ask: If we want to get rid of MS Word, what do we replace it with? There is no simple answer, but in an science-and-engineering environment one possible answer would be: any of a variety of editors that support LaTeX. textutil included with Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger).The following alternatives to Word on Mac OS X are discussed on this page: If you're interested specifically in how to convert from Word to LaTeX, have a look at the Word → LaTeX page. doc files useful if they come your way relatively infrequently. But occasionally people send me documents in Microsoft Word format, and by now I have only one computer left in my group that actually has Word (or any Office program) installed. I don't really have many uses for a conventional word processor because I create documents mainly using Xemacs, LaTeX and Mathematica (these links have some background information on the creators of TeX and Mathematica), and LyX. Replacing Microsoft Word Why you should not read this
