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The only evidence I have is that game for adults called `Word'. I strongly believe they would be much better players if they sticked to Wordpad for a year or two before switching to Word (they might then realize they don't need it 99.9999% of the time).

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I've switched to markdown for most of my personal stuff. In Word my typing content to formatting content was around 60/40. In markdown I format as I type and it's maybe 5% tops.

If you're like me and find yourself typing mostly the same few document types over and over it pays to spend a few hours and set up a latex template.

I've had a good bit of luck using Pandoc to fill in my latex templates from a markdown file.

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