Grad students: tired of manually fixing up your professors' Word documents so you can incorporate them into your LaTeX papers? Professors: tired of reading students' LaTeX drafts and wish you could just edit them in Word?
If you use Emacs, the below customizations can help.
Place them in your .emacs file somewhere, and run:
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M-x texify-regionto convert content pasted from Word into TeX-friendly content (It does the right thing for characters outside TeX's input set such as curly quotes, em- and en-dashes, and so on) -
M-x wordify-regionto go the other way -
M-x empty-regionto convert TeX paragraphs in the region (newline after each line, blank lines separate paragraphs) into Word-friendly text (one paragraph == one newline) -
M-x copy-region-as-emptyto do the above nondestructively, i.e. leaving your original TeX markup intact but copying a Word-friendly version to the kill ring (which doubles as the clipboard on non-broken PC & Mac implementations of Emacs) -
M-x word-outline-to-latexto convert a numbered headings outline (e.g. pasted from Word's outline mode view) into \section and \subsection hierarchy for LaTeX use
Have fun.