A few years back, I used to use LaTeX for writing reports and such, and I really liked the look of them.
However, nowadays I am forced to use MS Word to write my reports, but that does not hinder me from playing around with the document layout.
When I see a document typeset using LaTeX, I can often immediately spot it, I’m assuming that is because there is a nice default document template.
What types of setting in MS Word 2007/2010 (fonts, margins, letter spacing etc.) would allow my documents to look similar to default LaTeX documents?
I agree that it is impossible to completely imitate (La)TeX in Word. If you just want the font, then there is an OpenType version of Computer Modern, the default font of TeX. If you want the margins, just measure them on a LaTeX document and then set them in Word accordingly (I would recommend that you use KOMA Script or memoir as a base, not the default LaTeX classes, as the look imo better on A4 and letter paper.)
There is also a LaTeX template for Word. Since I don’t own Word, I can’t tell how good it looks.
I agree that it is impossible to completely imitate (La)TeX in Word. If you just want the font, then there is an OpenType version of Computer Modern, the default font of TeX. If you want the margins, just measure them on a LaTeX document and then set them in Word accordingly (I would recommend that you use KOMA Script or memoir as a base, not the default LaTeX classes, as the look imo better on A4 and letter paper.)
There is also a LaTeX template for Word. Since I don’t own Word, I can’t tell how good it looks.