Installing office 2003 under wine

Under Also installing add-ons bibliography managers and the like is all but obvious. Yes, wine supports installing Office I recently installed it on my laptop and as you said, it didn't give any errors while installing but when you try to save and close the document, it pops up error messages, which if you read carefully, can be safely ignored. However, as you said, PowerPoint does not seem to start easily from the dash.

To open PowerPoint, open a Terminal and go the path where you have installed Office and type. As of Wine 1. Macros work, but there are few weird oddities:.

This is a know issue dating since The exact same. Ubuntu Community Ask! Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Can Wine support Office ? Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 6 months ago. Active 5 years, 5 months ago. Viewed 29k times. Improve this question. Braiam I'd suggest just using LibreOffice, which should have come free with your Ubuntu out of the box. But is not as good as office For detailed instructions follow this link.

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Log in now. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Ubuntu Word, Excel, etc. As far I understand, you can run Word as user Administrator, but when trying to run it from another different account user for instance you get errors. In fact seems absolutely normal, let me explain. When you try to run it from other user user, for instance , perhaps Winword. The current Libreoffice has a everything and more functionality, is free, runs native in linux, is easy to install, works very well with DOC files.

Ubuntu Community Ask! Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Asked 7 years, 6 months ago. Active 7 years, 6 months ago. But once that's done it's one of our current priorities , Wine will have Win2K as it's base level OS, which should stand us in good stead in many places. Cheers, Jeremy. Post 3.

I can't wait for it to come out, as I need access to work for school. Also do you ever see. Post 4. If I can help with any testing, please feel free to ask. I have Office and crossover 3. Needless to say that Office didn'r install with 3.