content: PSA: If you want to use LibreOffice as a replacement for Word, make sure you solve the Calibri problem When LibreOffice started to become useful, Microsoft, totally by coincidence, released a bunch of fonts which were essentially proprietary. They also (coincidentally) made Calibri the default instead of the industry standard Times New Roman which they had been using till then. While Times New Roman was a serif font, Calibri is not. I'm not going to get into the debate over sans serif and serif fonts, but serif fonts are supposed to be better than the former for longer documents (cough they are cough). But the real impact is on font metrics. If you import a document into LibreOffice, which lacks Calibri, it screws up the text alignment sufficiently that many Word docs become unusable. To counter this, Google released a free-license font called Carlito which has the same font metrics as Calibri. It looks much the same, and should preserve text alignment.  The correct solution is to not use Calibri as a default at all in Microsoft Word for documents to be portable. Good luck with that. The realistic solution is to install Calibri and allow LibreOffice to use it if and when required.  PS There are some other shady fonts from Microsoft which can screw up things. I can't remember the names, but you should now know enough about fonts to solve those problems. PPS Fuck Microsoft. PPPS Donate to LibreOffice. edit: corrected a couple of typos edit: found an official download for Calibri on the MSFT website and added it to the list of resources.