Unable to install licensed Office Suite 2003 in Mint 16

[wine_greatful]

With wine 1.4.1, I was unable to install a licensed copy of MS Office suite 2003.
I have a suspicion it concerned the path location required by the MS Office setup.exe
The MS installer wanted to install files in C:\Program Files\.....etc
The actual wine folder stream is .wine/drive_c/Program Files/......etc
I suspect the installer did not recognize "drive_c".

[wine_greatful]

I successfully installed a licensed copy of MS Office 2000 in wine 1.4.1 in Mint 16.
Copied all of the files from the CD into a thumb drive.
Within Mint file manager, navigated to setup.exe
The whole installation was quick and easy.
However I did have to manually create my own desktop shortcut and menu shortcut to initiate winword.exe and excel.exe.
Obtained icon graphic files from the web and stored them folder where Office is stored as PNG format.
Created separate desktop launchers for word and excel.
Not sure if I will ever use power point, but its there if needed.
I definitely will NOT use Outlook.

Created separate shortcut files for word and excel within /home/user/Documents folder.
Make sure the user who creates these files is root.
Use the standard syntax that Mint uses for all .Desktop files.
The .Desktop file contains the folder path and wine call-out for execution of the winword.exe or excel.exe.
Using root permissions in terminal, copy the .Desktop files to /usr/shared/applications folder.
They will now appear in the Mint Applications menu.
Right-click on each one and update the graphic picture by navigating to the picture you will use as the Word icon and the Excel icon.
PNG file format works fine for Mint 16s Applications Menu graphic picture.

[olivierfrdierick]

Please put updates to your problems in the thread about your problem.
Otherwise, people will think that your issue was not resolved.

[dimesio]

I merged the two threads. Please don't create multiple threads for the same issue.