Problems with MS Office 2007 installation w/ Wine

[cartwright76]

One of my classes refuses to use any program other than MS Word 2007
for lab reports, because the reports have to be submitted electronically and
they want to use Word to make comments, etc. I tried suggesting Latex or
Open Office, but nobody seems to want to cooperate. So, I've attempted to
install MS Office 2007 through Wine 1.2 for Ubuntu 10.04.

The problem I've having is that the applications (Word, Excel) will open, but
the top portion of the software with all the menus and tool bars does not appear.
Has anyone had this problem and how might I fix it?

Thanks in advance for the help!

[Spyderkid]

Well what you can do is if you go onto Open Office (I think thats its name) do all your writing and when you save the file underneath the name there may be an option on what type of file you save it as, look for a windows file, windows 95, or windows 2000 etc. save it as a file like that if you can then anyone teacher/classmate can open it no probs

Also if you want to use wine you could check if wine is up to date and check Wine HQ a website for further information on Microsoft Office 2007.


Hope it helps.