[Wine] Re: Office 2007 is a half ass work'n

[dimesio]

mrchaos101 wrote:
> wow... I looked at your last link... perhaps it would be better to try a VM and install Windows in it....then install office that way?
> 
> I must have all of office working good.
> 
> Was hoping to move away from windows..but looks like this isn't gonna work.

The Access workarounds are done after installing, and not as difficult as they might look at first glance. 

You might check out Crossover, because they have hacks to make some things in Office work that don't work in plain Wine. But if you really need everything to work, you probably need a VM.