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tradetaxfree

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2011-03-05

Posts: 111

Installing Microsoft Office 2007 in WINE

Office 2010 is still a bit buggy in WINE 1.3 but Office 2007 runs without any problems & is simple to install with a little help from Winetricks:

sudo apt-get install winetricks

Debs for the latest versions of WINE for stable & testing
*** WINE 1.3.30 seems to break exisiting Office 2007 installs ***

& install the required windows files for Office 2007 to work

winetricks msxml3 dotnet20 gdiplus riched20 riched30 vcrun2005sp1 allfonts

If you are luckly the above command will complete without any errors - occasionally you may receive errors on the SHA1 sum for some fonts if they are updated & not yet reflected in the winetricks script

The current winetricks version in the repos WINETRICKS_VERSION=20110417 for the Droid Font points to http://android.git.kernel.org which is currently down due to hackers so:

sudo gedit /usr/bin/winetricks

& change DROID_URL around line 6056 to:

DROID_URL='https://www.codeaurora.org/gitweb/quic/la/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=blob_plain;f=data/fonts/'

I also had to change the SHA1 sum for font "Droid Sans Fallback" located around line 6059 to:

do_droid DroidSansFallback.ttf     "Droid Sans Fallback"     2f8a266389a8e22f68f402b775731eec6b760334

If you receive any other errors find the offending "font-name" & calculate the new SHA1 & amend the value in winetricks:

cd ~/.cache/winetricks/font-name
sha1sum font-name
sudo gedit /usr/bin/winetricks

If you have an ISO image for Office, open a terminal in the directory holding the image &:

sudo mount -o loop -o unhide office2007_pro.iso /mnt
cd /mnt
wine setup.exe

For running & writing VBA apps still use Office XP (which could be installed in a separate WINE prefix):

env WINEPREFIX="/home/user/.wine-whatever" winecfg

To run programs in your new prefix:

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-whatever wine

Last edited by tradetaxfree (2011-10-17 23:02:58)

thevdude

#! Junkie

From: Pittsburgh, PA

Registered: 2011-09-01

Posts: 469

Re: Installing Microsoft Office 2007 in WINE

D: I have office 2007, but can purchase 2010 for $10. I think I'm going to.

tradetaxfree

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2011-03-05

Posts: 111

Re: Installing Microsoft Office 2007 in WINE

You will need to jump through a few more hoops for Office 2010

julien.lemaitre

New Member

Registered: 2012-11-20

Posts: 1

Re: Installing Microsoft Office 2007 in WINE

Hi,

I've successfully installed Wine + Office 2010 using this how-to; here are a few additional notes:

1.
Install winbind because WineHQ.com says so:

Make sure all dependencies of Wine are installed on your system, including winbind.

(Maybe it is not mandatory anymore, but I haven't tested without.)

2.
Install msxml6 together with all other Windows files:

winetricks msxml6

3.
I had the same problem with the Droid font checksum, I did as advised in the first post and it worked perfectly!

Hope this helps.

KrunchTime

#! Die Hard

From: East Coast, USA

Registered: 2012-03-02

Posts: 974

Re: Installing Microsoft Office 2007 in WINE

Does Microsoft Update run well for either version of Office under Wine?

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JT

Member

Registered: 2012-12-23

Posts: 15

Re: Installing Microsoft Office 2007 in WINE

Thanks for this. I installed Office with no major problems. However, Winetricks couldn't find the ttf-opensymbol font file because winetricks contains out of date references.

The current version of ttf-open symbol is

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/ma … e8_all.deb

To update the file name and url of ttf-opensymbol I opened the winetricks script

sudo vim /usr/bin/winetricks

and then altered both the filename (line no. 7416 for me)

file1="ttf-opensymbol_3.2.1-11+squeeze8_all.deb" \

and the url (line no 7424)

w_download http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/o/openoffice.org/ttf-opensymbol_3.2.1-11+squeeze8_all.deb c5e0fa518a988a511ea2392f3919f516c0a3c65c

If the ttf-symbol package changes again then you'll need to update the filename, url and calculate the sha1sum again.

After this winetricks worked fine for me.

Last edited by JT (2012-12-23 13:14:31)

M.I.H.H

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From: /etc/init.d/

Registered: 2012-11-01

Posts: 50

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Re: Installing Microsoft Office 2007 in WINE

nice guide. thanks man, i've successfully install Ms.Office 2007 & running fine for me at this time 

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sorcerer's_apprentice

#! CrunchBanger

From: oblivion

Registered: 2013-02-09

Posts: 196

Re: Installing Microsoft Office 2007 in WINE

OT:

Please excuse my deflection - but I have a question. It may seem that it is a sarcastic one - but it isn't. I am honestly curious:

Why would anyone want to install M$-Office? I am asking because I have been using Open/Libre-Office for at least the last ten years and never felt one bit that I needed to use anything else.

Correct me, if I'm wrong: But don't the FOSS-versions even have more functionality than what M$ has to offer. I remember not being able to create pdf-files with it and - of course - compatibility with other formats also was huge bummer when I worked with it at school and at work.

Last edited by sorcerer's_apprentice (2013-02-21 12:33:43)

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el_koraco

#!/loony/bun

From: inside Ed

Registered: 2011-07-25

Posts: 4,654

Re: Installing Microsoft Office 2007 in WINE

Why would anyone want to install M$-Office? I am asking because I have been using Open/Libre-Office for at least the last ten years and never felt one bit that I needed to use anything else.

People are still afraid that formatting will get screwed up. This is a relic from the Openoffice days, LO has never failed me personally, I've even had situations where Office 2010 wouldn't read Office 2003 files correctly, so my only option was to do conversion magic via LO.

MS Office 2013 has feature parity with LO these days, with stuff like importing and exporting PDF. The rest of the stuff, as far as I can see, is the further bastardization of Word to a poor man's desktop publishing program, like improved image insertion mechanisms. Excel has a few new functions and PowerPoint seems improved. I'm still holding out hope the Office era will end, because if I get one more Excel or Powerpoint file to translate, imma not gonna let them finish.

iMBeCil

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From: Zgb, Croatia

Registered: 2012-03-22

Posts: 79

Re: Installing Microsoft Office 2007 in WINE

^ & ^^ Not only are people afraid, often you have to submit something in MS Word created form. (For example, scientific project submission is often made that way.)

Unfortunately, neither LO can open MSWord form, nor LO can save filled form back to MSWord. I mean, they can open/save document, but the representation is not truly 'faithful' ...

Therefore, I am forced to use MSWord, although I try to do all my work without it (i.e. using LO or for example LaTeX).

So, I appreciate the nice guide, too.

Last edited by iMBeCil (2013-02-21 16:13:42)

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th3pun15h3r

#! Junkie

Registered: 2011-11-22

Posts: 268

Re: Installing Microsoft Office 2007 in WINE

You might check or send your way to success to playonlinux.  That's what I use as a frontend for wine and they have a point and click for installing a lot of Windows software. 

Thanks everyone for sharing!  Crunchbang forums are part of my daily browse routine.