[Wine] Microsoft Office 2007 and Wine only

[James Hawkins]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:48 AM, christoff <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> First off before I delve into the purpose of this thread I want to lay down a few ground rules.  This thread is only about MS OFFICE 2007 (OFFICE 12) and Wine. No Exceptions!
>
>  To break it down further I don't want any information about the following alternatives which I know work, but defeat the purpose.
>
>  No talk of:
>  Open Office (Ooo)
>  MS OFFICE 2000, XP or 2003
>  CrossOver Office
>  any emulators (EMUs) such as VirtualBox, VMWare, Qemu etc.
>  That aside the purpose of this thread is to combine the intelligent minds here and even the new Wine users to get MS OFFICE 2007 (OFFICE12) installed on their *nix machine.
>
>  There are 2 Methods for accomplishing this mission
>  Using the Installer to Install MS OFFICE 2007 in Wine
>  Copying OFFICE 12 from a Windows system, copy registry keys and play with dll overrides to get the software to work in Wine
>
>  Apparently there are a few users who have definitely gotten OFFICE12 to work in Wine; namely twickline of Wine Review (http://wine-review.blogspot.com/), but he has neglected to post any information on how he did it even after several months and asking nicely (http://www.wine-forum.org/showthread.php?t=178).  This thread will not be a flame war against him or his website.  I think he puts out good information, but I don't think we see eye to eye.  There are also some videos out on Youtube.com
>
>  The point is that Wine in its current state is capable of getting OFFICE12 to run.  I reinstalled Wine 0.9.58 yesterday and played with the dll overrides and was able to get the installer all the way up to where it was to copy files, but it didn't crash and didn't copy any files so I know I am close in that regard.
>
>  So I hope that all the users will come together to get this application suite working in either method.  I will post my data and overrides I am currently employing.  Remember it's all about sharing information.
>

Why are you using dll overrides?  The installer works fine with a
clean wineprefix.

-- 
James Hawkins