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

[dimesio]

mrchaos101 wrote:
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> Dimesio thank for helping out with this...
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> I think you are on to it.... I assumed I downloaded the current version of Ubuntu as I thought I didn't take a RC... I used the normal download button knowing that 10x will be out in a few days.  I popped in my DVD and it appears I am using an Ubuntu 10.04.1  So...it is in fact either an RC or beta or some crap.
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> Guess now the question is... do you think I should update WINE beta version for this.... or should I go back and install an older version of Ubuntu and still use Wine 1.2??
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> Do you think the version of office 2007 matters?  I can use any version.


I asked about your distro because there is a known problem with Ubuntu 10.10 that breaks many apps in Wine, including Office. 
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24193 

It wasn't present in the original 10.04, but they may have backported the change. Try upgrading to Wine 1.3.4, which had a workaround added.

The version of Office can matter. You said you were using the enterprise edition; is it English? There have been times in the past when the German and Spanish versions in particular have had bugs that did not affect the English version.