Many thanks TR and friends":O}
Seemed to go well, carried out your instructions then followed your link and through in the MS Fonts instructions given at the end. Still have some faint letters that look like a old typewriter whose key isn't being hit hard enough.
Do I select MS fonts in The "Fonts" section of "System Settings"?
/root/.fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
fc-cache: succeeded
daniel-Sabertooth-Mint-18-DaVoid daniel # sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
ttf-mscorefonts-installer is already the newest version (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 99 not upgraded.
daniel-Sabertooth-Mint-18-DaVoid daniel #