Diverse excel 2000 bugs with Wine-1.1.16, Centos5.

grriton · Post by **grriton** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:05 am

I am using Excel 2000 Standard with wine-1.1.16 on Centos5, and get several bugs:

First, it wouldn't open my files directly, but open a blank worksheet, so that I have to open it manually. I can live with that.

Second, I get a message saying: "File Error, data may have been lost", when I open my file, after enabling the macros. The file will open anyway. The only missing data I found was the hyperlinks.

Third: I cannot install any Add-in. I get the following message: "Microsoft Excel can't run this add-in. Microsoft cannot install the necessary files due to Windows Installer error 1601. ERROR-INSTALL-SERVICE-FAILURE".

Fourth: I cannot paste anything from Firefox. I get a simple message "Excel cannot paste the data"...

Last but not least, I cannot save. I get the message :"The disk is full", which is obviously completely false, wouldn't mention it otherwise...

Anyone can help?

grriton · Post by **grriton** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:06 am

Saving problem resolved: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13822

(Sorry I didn't found this earlier...)

The other bugs remain...

Edit: The error message on the opening doesn't appear anymore... Seems like they had the same cause. I still can't open my files directly though.

grriton · Post by **grriton** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:50 am

There's a new bug...

Excel crashes when I try to open a hyperlink...
Worse, it will keep crashing on opening until I reboot my computer...

EDIT: "ps -u ..." and "kill" enable me not to reboot my computer each time excel crashes...

My research also lead me to believe that the add-in installation problem was linked with MSI, Microsoft advises to unregister the installer and re-register it afterwards, and then try to install the add-ins again. The problem is that I have no idea how to do that without the windows command center...

Anyone?

grriton · Post by **grriton** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:33 pm

The paste problem is solved as well: The solution is to make a paste special and paste as unicode text, instead of html.
The resulting formating differs from what I had on a simple excel on windows though... I had to get back in my macros to adapt them a little, but most of the time it shouldn't be such an issue...

grriton · Post by **grriton** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:38 pm

To sum up: The only problems remaining are:

* That I can't open a file directly (I have to open excel alone first, then the file). I can live with that and I guess most would as well.

* That all hyperlinks disappear, and that excel crashes when I try to use one.

* That I can't install any add-in.

I hope what I fixed will be usefull to some of you, and that someone will be able to help with the remaining issues.

Thanks

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:50 pm

grriton wrote:* That I can't open a file directly (I have to open excel alone first, then the file). I can live with that and I guess most would as well.

You want to do something like this only backwards: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-e03d797 ... bc28ad33d4

Of course no registry editing necessary.

grriton · Post by **grriton** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:21 am

Thanks but unfortunately the problem is a bit different.
It is not that I want Linux to open my file with excel by default, but that when I chose to open it with excel (right click -> open with microsoft excel), excel will launch with a blank page, and then I have to do file -> open.

Thanks anyway.

Post by **dimesio** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:18 am

grriton wrote:Thanks but unfortunately the problem is a bit different.
It is not that I want Linux to open my file with excel by default, but that when I chose to open it with excel (right click -> open with microsoft excel), excel will launch with a blank page, and then I have to do file -> open.

Thanks anyway.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12380

grriton · Post by **grriton** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:01 pm

Seems to be the solution... I will test tomorrow and let you know.

Thanks a lot.

grriton · Post by **grriton** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:49 am

Sorry it took me a while to come back to you guys...
It works perfectly.

Now if anyone has any idea how to get the add-ins to be installed and how to get the hyperlinks to work, that would be very helpful.

Thanks.