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TWICKLINE asked me to write up a howto on some of the workarounds I sent him after he got Microsoft Office 2007 (Office12) working. So without any further interruptions I return you to your regular scheduled program. First of all anyone who used TWICKLINE’s method of using CrossOver Games 7 must either
You can either:
wget http://media.codeweavers.com/pub/crossover/source/crossover-games-wine-src-7.0.0.tar.gz tar –xvf crossover-games-wine-src-7.0.0.tar.gz cd crossover-games-wine-src-7.0.0/source/wine ./configure make depend && make sudo cp /usr/lib/wine/rpcrt4.dll.so /usr/lib/wine/rpcrt4.dll.so.bak sudo cp dlls/rpcrt4/rpcrt4.dll.so /usr/lib/wine Now you don’t even need to specify rpcrt4.dll as native in winecfg since you compiled the builtin rpcrt4.dll.so and a much cleaner winecfg. Now that we are legal lets talk about what does and doesn’t work right now and some workarounds to get some things working better. Right now the following programs work:
The reason you need to be in Windows Vista for install is because I noticed registry values are getting inputed incorrectly during the install under Windows XP. PowerPoint will now work fine, but it has one really bad flaw in Wine’s current state in that you can edit presentations but you cannot view them full screen as a presentation. You’ll be able to view two slides and then nothing will happen when you advance or reverse. The workaround here is to use the PowerPoint Viewer 2007 which works flawlessly. I also wanted to give you users who like Microsoft Office 2007 better then OpenOffice some tips on how to integrate it into your system so you can open documents, presentations and spreadsheets from anywhere and have them open correctly. Open your favorite text editor and make the following 5 scripts: excel #!/bin/bash wine "c:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\OFFICE12\\EXCEL.EXE" "`winepath -w "$@"`" onenote #!/bin/bash wine "c:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\OFFICE12\\ONENOTE.EXE" "`winepath -w "$@"`" powerpoint #!/bin/bash wine "c:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\OFFICE12\\POWERPNT.EXE" "`winepath -w "$@"`" pptviewer #!/bin/bash wine "c:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\OFFICE12\\PPTVIEW.EXE" "`winepath -w "$@"`" publisher #!/bin/bash wine "c:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\OFFICE12\\MSPUB.EXE" "`winepath -w "$@"`" winword #!/bin/bash wine "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE" "`winepath -w "$@"`" sudo chmod a+x word excel onenote powerpoint pptviewer pubisher sudo cp word excel onenote powerpoint pptviewer pubisher /usr/local/bin/ There are two methods to make associations for the following file types: .doc .docx .xls .xlsx .ppt .pptx .one .onetoc .pub
Run the Configure Desktop (Personal Settings) > KDE Componentes > File Associations click in the "Find filename pattern" box and type in the box .doc then click on application. You'll see two items one for .doc and the other is for .docx. Click the Add button on the lower right and point to the scripts we made above /usr/local/bin/winword and then click ok Repeat this method for .ppt .xls For .one .onetoc and .pub you'll have to add from scratch click the add on the bottom left and give a name for this profile say for Microsoft OneNote we'll call it msonenote click on application for type. Then at click Add at the top right to specify the file type *.one and then click add again and add *.pub and click ok. Then click the Add button on the bottom right and specify the script /usr/local/bin/onenote Repeat this method for .pub GNOME users follow this portion to integrate the script you just made Use nautilus file browser and right click on a document ie: .doc and then click open with and click on custom application then point to the associated script that you placed in /usr/local/bin/winword and repeat this method for all the other file types. Summary All in all you can get some usability from Microsoft Office 2007 from using the rpcrt4.dll.so from CodeWeavers CrossOver suite, but it’s crippled at best. I recommend that you all buy CrossOver Office which comes with a free copy of CrossOver Games which will allow you to use the entire Microsoft Office 7 suite with no hiccups. Additionally, anyone who uses Wine should buy CrossOver Office because not only do you get a good product but it supports Wine! All the code that CodeWeavers makes minus the hacks make their way back into Wine and it pays for the developers who spend days on end writing code for Wine. 
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