Wine and Micro$oft Office

[Duane Clark]

Christophe wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I wish to ask you some advice about Wine and Micro$oft Office.
> I know this subject comes up every 10 sec, but I can't get Excel
> nor WinWord work properly. 
> 
> I must say I studied toroughly als faqs and archives I could find about this
> subjects. So I allready checked :
> * my X server is correctly installed, with ttf fonts ans so on..
> * I have full acces to the windows partition where the programm is installed
> * I use a double-boot with NT, but I let Wine run its own windows inwtall
> * I already tried to re-install dcom95.exe (98 as well). (fyi, the install
> programm refuses to install the prg and says a newer version had been
> installed - I guess with wine install)
> * I tried installing Wine 20031016 and 20030911 from rpm and from
> src+compile+...
> 
> Both M$ programms start and shout for MsCreate.dir. And it is impossible
> either to open nor to save a doc. (Actually dialog boxes i.e. open won't come
> up) 

To fix that symptom with Word2K, I needed to add the following to my 
~/.wine/config file, with the corresponding native DLL installed.

[AppDefaults\\winword.exe\\DllOverrides]
"oleaut32"     = "native, builtin"
"ole32"        = "native, builtin"
"comctl32"     = "native"
"rpcrt4"       = "native"

[AppDefaults\\winword.exe\\Version]
"Windows" = "win98"