I'm intrested to know if this tutorial helped you, (reminder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soQTECGcY9M )
I spent a great deal of time when I was starting to write my thesis using Word and I know that if I had this tutorial it would've literally save me days. What do you say?

I use Word.
I even made avideo tutorial and a template
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soQTECGcY9M

I made a tutorial and a template to help you write a thesis using word 2007.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soQTECGcY9M
It makes things really easy, you can do in word almost everything that Latex offers.