Client wants print materials designed in @#$%! Word now

So I've got this client that I've had for about a year. I've designed postcards, flyers and posters for her in InDesign and delivered print-ready PDFs to her in the past, and everything was dandy. A few months ago, I designed a certificate of completion for her, and she afterward asked if there was any way I could make it a template so she could type in the names herself. Since she's a basic computer user, the only option I had was to redesign the certificate in Microsoft Word, which I absolutely hate doing. Well, now she's starting to ask if I can design other things that way (flyers, postcards, etc.). I'm torn between sucking it up and just doing it, and flat-out telling her no. It's an incredible hassle for me to try to get Microsoft Word to do what I want it to do, as you can probably imagine. Plus there's the issue with bleed, custom paper sizes and the fact that I'd have to design everything with basic fonts like Arial and Times Roman. What should I do?

I'm no designer, so my suggestions may not work for you.That being said:
She wants to type in the names herself, does she? Have her generate Word files for you to place, or better Excel files for you to merge. Another option is manually-tweaked form fields in Acrobat. Or you could do what I did, which I could only do because I was not hungry:
"Pay me double to work in Publisher, or I'll walk out of this office forever."
They tried to mess with it themselves for a week, and then called me back to negotiate for 1.75 times my typical rate.
YMMV.

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