[Wine] Re: Microsoft Office 2007 and Wine only

[jdefoe]

I'm glad to see that a thread like this one has appeared.  Hopefully we can all work together and figure out how to get Office 2007 working in Wine.  I tried to take the steps regarding using Winetricks a couple of posts back, but it didn't work very well.

I'm running Ubuntu 7.10.

Here's the status of the installations of the 4 things from Winetricks:

MSXML3 - installed perfectly
All fonts - some installed (arial, courrier, times new roman) but after that I received an error.
MSI2 - fails to install
DotNet1.1 - fails to install, giving an error saying I need IE 5.01 or higher or something like that.

Any ideas?

I'm pretty new to Linux and Wine (I've been using them about 2 months), but I love it and Office 2007 is the only app that I regularly need to use that I need Windows for right now.  I do have Office 2007 installed on a different partition on the same PC, so if at some point there's better information available on what it takes to copy everything over from Windows to Linux I could definitely test that out.

Thanks in advance for any information anyone has on the errors I'm receiving.