Ubuntu – Installing other fonts on wine

This does have to do with the anti-aliasing in Windows. It expects you to have it on in the OS, so they don't bother re-creating anti-aliasing in the Office Suite. If you disabled the anti-aliasing in Windows, it would look the same.

If wine's own font smoothing does not work, then I don't think it will. Here's a test to make sure its just the display that's wrong. Print something...does it look okay?

Maybe post a complaint on WineHQ under the Microsoft Office information; they may be able to help you more (and possibly fix the problem in their next update).

I have seen this problem too (on my own computer, I have Office installed as well). I learned to ignore it. Also try zooming in on the text to make it look a little better. Setting the view to page-width may help a lot.

They use different systems and point to different directories, I refer you to this discussion on linux.com for more explanations.

Coming back to your problem, what you want to do is that the X font system management indexes also the other folder, like the new system does.

Unfortunately this is not straight-forward.
The X system uses bitmap font formats (according to this), so in principle you cannot use .ttf files straight away.

First you have to convert them to any of the formats stated above and then you can follow that guide to add them all to the underlying X system.

Please not that I did not try it, but also this other source seems pertinent here. You probably just have to pay attention that ttmkfdir does not exists anymore and it has been replaced (a long time ago, according to this) by mkfontdir and mkfontscale.