Differences between kerning in Adobe Creative Suite and Word

[kosbarts]

I am experiencing this issue with Word 2011 and Word 2015.

My font looks unkerned but when I activate kerning from Format > Font > Advanced > Kerning for fonts, it looks fine. Is that how it is supposed to work?

I read these articles:

Kerning Problem in Microsoft Office

Assigning PUA values to fix Word bugs is not a good idea. Microsoft should fix its shitty software; font designers should not teach the world to expect us to build in workarounds for Microsoft's shitty software.

Kerning Issue in Microsoft Office 2011

Hello there, I’m working on my first font using Glyph. I’ve set up all my side bearings and made all my kerning groups. The exported OTF font works just fine in Adobe Illustrator & InDesign but it seems that all the kerning groups I’ve made are not showing in Microsoft Word 2011. I’ve been through quite a few of your topics : • I’ve added a Kern feature in the Font Info • I’ve created a Liga F_H feature • I’ve cleaned up the font cache • I’ve tried to copy/paste existing kerning pairs fr…

Since the kerning is off (as it appears) by default, would TimAhrens suggestion to assign PUA’s to unencoded kerned glyphs make any difference? Should I not bother about this or is there a way to make the font have kerning on by default?

This is an image from Word 2011. The text on the top is default and the one below is with the kerning activated.