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As others have said, Word is going to be the best for compatibility. You will likely turn everything in printed or as a pdf, but every once in a while you'll have some professor who forces you to use Word either because they send everything as a .doc, or they want to give you feedback on papers through the Track Changes feature. Having said that, for long papers with lots of figures I'd really recommend learning LaTeX. The learning curve is terrible, but trying to deal with long documents in Word where you need to move pictures around a lot is an absolute nightmare.