Wine - Microsoft office

[Spyderkid]

How do I install Microsoft Office with Wine?

I have wine downloaded



Thanks!

[Dapper Dan]

The best way to install wine is through the Ubuntu package manager in your menu. Look for "Synaptic."

Running MS Office under wine is problematic. See here for more. If you still want to give it a go, open a terminal and cd to where the install .exe is and do:

wine (whatever_the_installer_name_is_).exe

If you cannot live without MS Office, the best option is to run it naively under Windows or in Windows installed inside a virtual machine. OpenOffice and Abiword do an excellent job under Linux.

[Spyderkid]

It says 2007 works fine.

[MikeTbob]

Install it and let us know if it works for you.

[Spyderkid]

sorry, but I said that I've downloaded wine but I don't know how to use it.

[oz]

Have you checked their documentation, faq, and wiki pages?

WineHQ - Documentation

FAQ - The Official Wine Wiki

FrontPage - The Official Wine Wiki

They cover the usage of Wine pretty well and are good links to keep handy if you will be continuing to use Wine.

[Dapper Dan]

sorry, but I said that I've downloaded wine but I don't know how to use it.

So you've downloaded AND installed it? Follow the links ozar provides as they will be very helpful in running wine.

[TaZMAniac]

It says 2007 works fine.

Look at this page again;
WineHQ - Microsoft Office (installer only)

The Office 2007 Installer is rated as Silver.
But if you look below the Installer ratings you will see the individual component ratings such as Excel, Word, Powerpoint, etc.

The ratings for those components span from garbage to gold but they require a bit of configuring not to mention getting activation to work.

Good luck!

[Spyderkid]

the link TaZMAniac posted said that 2007 office was rated gold as an average so ill give it a go. shall I install Office then use Wine or can I install it with wine staight from the CD?

[Hal343]

Install it from wine, straight from cd.