[Wine] Pros & Cons - Microsoft Office on Macintosh OS X

[James Mckenzie]

VE Day <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote on March 1st:
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>Hello Boys and Girls and Everybody.
>I have recently started using a Macintosh computer to replace the dinosaur of an unbelievably unreliable PC that I have been using for the last 10 years. So far I have been very pleased. I have been using OpenOffice for quite a while now as I find it is mostly superior to Microsoft Office in many ways, HOWEVER - OpenOffice lacks the Voice Recognition Software that I have been using more and more in Microsoft Office, plus I cannot use Open Office to format documents using Textboxes.
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Please do the OpenOffice.org folks a favor and file a bug report for this as an enhancement request for the Mac.

>My understanding is that by installing Wine onto my Macintosh OS X I may be able to install my copy of Microsoft Office Professional 2003 - but will the facilities in Microsoft Office such as Voice Recognition Software work if I install it on a Macintosh using Wine?  (I have a 2GB Intel Macintosh)
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You should be able to install Office 2003, but please visit the Applications Database for hints and how-to information before attempting the installation.

>My memory tells me that to get the Voice Recognition software in Microsoft Office working on my PC I had to go to Control Panel and fiddle with some commands there before I could use Voice Recognition Software because  although the Voice Recognition Software comes as standard with Microsoft Office 2003 it does not install automatically when you install the software.
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Most of the folks here use Dragon Naturally Speaking version 8 as it has the best support from Wine.  I don't know if the internal feature of Microsoft Office 2003 is supported under Wine and my opinion is that it is not as this appears to be a feature of WindowsXP and WindowsVista.

>Please is there anyone with experience of installing this using Wine that can advise?

Please visit the Applications Database.  There is a wealth of knowledge there on how-to install applications and features.

Also, which version of Wine are you planning to use?

James Mckenzie