> dont try to place things manually

Ah, so the solution is to use Word as if it was a worse LaTeX, I see :^)

Jokes aside, the precise manual positioning of figures and such (e.g. figures at a certain height of a paragraph, with text flowing around it) was the only potential attractiveness of Word.

If that’s still broken I really don’t see the reason for switching to a program with worse typesetting (and not only) capabilities, given my use case and the fact that I’m quite comfortable with LaTeX by now