[Wine] Re: Current state of MS Office 2003?

[dimesio]

David Gerard wrote:
> I installed Office 2003 in Wine without any winetricks or native DLLs.
> Excel works great, Word crashes a lot and can't save.
> 
> What's the current best attempt to get Word 2003 to work in Wine? I
> see the AppDB shows no ideas on getting it working ...
> 
> It's supported in CrossOver, so it should be possible in winehq Wine!
> Has anyone got Word working?
> 
> - d.


There's a regression in 1.1.35 that prevents saving files in Word. It's already fixed in git. This is stated in the Office 2003 entry under "Known Regressions," and there is a big red warning in the Word 2003 entry.