Personally I have a slight preference for a serif font on screen. I'm just more comfortable with them, but I have no problem with sans-serif fonts on screen most of the time. (I've bought some ebooks that were sans serif and got used to them fairly quickly).
Paper's a different story.
I cannot stand sans serif fonts in general, or Arial in particular on any printed document over 10 pages or so. It's just a pain to read.
Online it's no big deal - but Arial on paper is a mess. Since I do a lot of manuscript work, I generally leave any word-processing software set to something with serifs for anyone who has to use a printout of the document.
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