W2000 MSOffice - Vista MSOffice... Verdana font appearance differe

Using W2000 with Excel 2002 the Verdana font regular is how I like it...

Now that I am gradully migrating to Vista x64 I noticed that in Vista the
Verdana font regular in Excel 2002 appears, basically, bold instead of
regular and when highlighted and changed to bold appears to be, well,
double-bold.

Any ideas on where to start? Thanks in advance.

Well, I must say, thanks for the tremendous amount of assistance from all
the Microsoft experts. An idiot with 3 days to spare could have told you it
was ClearType that could be turned off...

Well, with one blind Mother and one Father with laser eye surgery, who gives
a **** about my eyes anyway... least of all anyone at Microsoft.