To do this, enable the “Universe” component of the repositories. I found the following instructions but I still couldn't understand what it meant - You can install the MS core fonts by installing the msttcorefonts package.

Turns out that they were MS specific but are freely available to download. I've managed to transfer the appropriate files to the desk top, and that's where I ended.Īnother tack was to try and find out why fonts such as Times Roman, Arial, Tacoma, etc, weren't on board Open office. I've tried installing Word on the computer via various instructions, but am absolutely clueless on what's being asked of me - I even had to look up what 'CD' meant in Ubuntu parlance! It didn't help - the instructions may as well have been in Greek. My wife, who's a professional writer and has worked with Word practically all of her working life, wants to keep working with it in Ubuntu, not least because all of the fonts she normally works with aren't available in Open Office. Can anyone help me on a question of fonts?

Fonts for openoffice