Office 2007

andreea_s · Post by **andreea_s** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:59 am

Hi there again!

I have installed Office 2007 under wine vista without incidents but when I try to open its applications I get .exe has encountered a problem and it needs to close.
I need wine to be vista because I have another program which will flicker in xp.
If I install Office under wine xp everything works fine.
What should I do?
Thank you!

Andreea.

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:14 am

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:59 AM, andreea_s <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi there again!

I have installed Office 2007 under wine vista without incidents but when I try to open its applications I get .exe has encountered a problem and it needs to close.
I need wine to be vista because I have another program which will flicker in xp.
If I install Office under wine xp everything works fine.
What should I do?
Thank you!

Use more than 1 prefix.

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-f2f5f3b ... 15657ad552

John

SpawnHappyJake · Post by **SpawnHappyJake** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:25 am

You could add (say "add application") and select Office 2007 under the applications tab in winecfg and set it to "xp". Anything you do in winecfg while Office 2007 is selected under applications only is applied to Office 2007, as opposed to having "default" selected, which applies to all applications that don't have there own set of settings in winecfg (don't show up in a list under default).
Or
You could put Office 2007 in its own prefix, and set that prefix to "xp".

Make new folder in home folder (or wherever)
Name it "msoffice" (or whatever)
Run from terminal: WINEPREFIX=$HOME/msoffice [or wherever you put it] winecfg

Let it update the prefix.
Say "xp mode" in winecfg.
Close winecfg after applying.

Run from terminal: "WINEPREFIX=$HOME/msoffice [or wherever you put it] wine [path to msoffice installer, you can just drag the installer into terminal instead of typing out the whole path]"

Now msoffice will be in it's own prefix with its own settings.

Or
Just install native LibreOffice which is open source, doesn't cost money, and will run natively on your OS.

Cheers,
Jake

andreea_s · Post by **andreea_s** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:35 am

Thank you guys! You have been extremely helpful!
Cheers right back! :*
Have a nice day/evening!

Andreea.

Post by **dimesio** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:37 am

SpawnHappyJake wrote:You could add (say "add application") and select Office 2007 under the applications tab in winecfg and set it to "xp".

Office 2007 is not one application; it is a suite of apps, and you would have to do that for every single exe it installs. It is much simpler to install Office to its own wineprefix.

andreea_s · Post by **andreea_s** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:58 am

Jake's answer was useful because I applied what he said for my other program. Office runs on wine xp (default) and the other on vista (add application). And it works.

andreea_s · Post by **andreea_s** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:58 am

Jake's answer was useful because I applied what he said to my other program. Office runs on wine xp (default) and the other on vista (add application). And it works.