Microsoft Office 2007 on Ubuntu Linux

Installed Micrsoft Office 2007 on Ubuntu Linux 8.04 using CrossOver. It runs great, here is a screenshot:

Micrsoft Office 2007 running on Linux

But one little problem, the fonts don’t look smooth because Linux don’t have ClearType and the spacing of text is not appropriate. The text looks very crumbled and unreadable. But I am sure, there must be a solution using custom font definations.

Crumbled text in Office 2007 on Linux:

Office Fonts on Linux

I will also try installing it using Wine and post a HowTo on LinuxArticles.

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Applications like Crossover and Wine do manage to run Windows apps but they somehow fail to retain the finish and the look of the software.
I could run Evernote on Ubuntu using Wine but it looks so fugly in it.

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