Word doesn’t suck. It’s the most capable word processing application ever to exist. It’s practically a masterpiece of usability and an indispensable tool on millions of desktops. What sucks about it?
I use Word and Excel every day to write proposals. It’s perfectly fine for that.
But I don’t do graphic design on them.
The groan is audible when I get a ‘poster’ designed in Word in all its RGB-aliciousness.
Hold nose. Push button. 
I designed the car log for BMW in Microsoft Publisher - because that’s what they wanted so they could get it back and make edits themselves.
Handled CMYK quite well actually - I was presently surprised. Even though I had to go the Estimators office to use the Windows PC there to do it.
Ah - life gives you lemons you make lemonade, you might get a bit in the eye and be termporaily blinded, but then you have a disgusting drink so it’s all good.
Publisher was the first page layout app I ever used, and it also never sucked. I learned a lot with it before “graduating” to QuarkXPress (which in some ways, did suck).
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