Wine and Micro$oft Office

[Jérôme Bouat]

Use OpenOffice which is a Microsoft Office 100% compatible office suite
(http://www.openoffice.org/).

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buy Star Office.

Jérôme

Le sam 08/11/2003 à 17:27, Christophe a écrit :
> 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) 
> 
> Thanks in advance for your support. I need to have THESE working for 100%
> compatibility purposes at work. Or I would have to give up linux :(
> 
> Christophe
> 
> Info about my system 
> RH9 running with kernel 2.4.20-8, X XFree86 Version 4.3.0
> current Wine : 20030911
> I attached my .wine/config file if you can have a look.
> When starting, I always get a (approx translation) "mscreate is not
> accessible ... maybe is it read-only file or the server (??) on which it is saved is
> not responding"
> It is maybe te reason why I also get : 
> > err:clipboard:X11DRV_CLIPBOARD_QueryAvailableData Failed to cache
> text/plain;charset=utf-8 property
> Then I have to click cancel : Basic functions are operative then.
> When I choose open in the file menu : nothing happens and I get in the
> console :
> > fixme:hook:NotifyWinEvent (5,0x10021,-3,0)-stub!
> 
> 
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