Jules wrote:

OO running on a Windows platform might sort out a lot of the font issues
though, as hopefully it'll use exactly the same fonts that Word would.

Or, since Word makes an abortion of layout and uses some of the ugliest
fonts going by default, one might use the basic set of PostScript fonts
across all platforms and thus have consistency between them all. This
would mean using Times instead of the Times New Roman and Helvetica
instead of Arial. This isn't a bad policy to adopt anyway.