Running MS Office 2003 under Linux with Wine PDF Print E-mail
Written by Tom Wickline   
Sunday, 16 September 2007 02:42
This Guide is now depreciated a new Guide based on Wine 0.9.52 has been posted. Please don't use this Guide! The only reason it's still here is for reference

The New updated Guide is here: Running MS Office 2003 under Linux with Wine 0.9.52.

About Microsoft Office 2003

Microsoft Office 2003 (Professional Edition) represents a major upgrade to previous versions of the world's most popular suite of software applications. Office 2003 includes new and familiar products, features, and functionality that can help organizations and their employees connect to coworkers, information, and business processes quickly and effectively.

Advances in intranet collaboration through integration with the collaboration and information-sharing portal, Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, enable employees to access and share information both internally and externally. Support for information rights management (IRM) and industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) provide a platform on which to quickly build cost-effective solutions that can have an immediate impact in your business and productivity.

This is with a clean configuration directory and running in a 1024x768 virtual desktop.

$ winecfg

Set a virtul desktop if you wish, this is also a good time to set your sound driver. You will also want to set richedit20.dll & richedit32.dll as navite (Windows)

Now install the richedit30 update, make sure you go to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 and rename richedit20.dll and richedit32.dll to *.bak or the richedit update wont work.

tom@tom:~$ wine richedit30.exe
fixme:midi:OSS_MidiInit Synthesizer supports MIDI in. Not yet supported.
tom@tom:~$





Install Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML)

Download it and and cd to the directory where you downloaded msxml3.msi, then run:

$ msiexec /i msxml3.msi














Now run winecfg again and set "msxml3" to (native) and apply the change.

Next up is to set the Owner and Organization in the registry.

$ regedit

Now set the Owner and Organization in:
[Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion]
[Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion]

You might need to mount your Office 2003 CD with the option -o unhide. This will avoid having problems with hidden files during installation.

mount -t iso9660 -o unhide /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0

tom@tom:~$ cd /media/cdrom0
tom@tom:/media/cdrom0$ wine setup
fixme:midi:OSS_MidiInit Synthesizer supports MIDI in. Not yet supported.

The setup should now run without any errors and complete as successful.















Word 2003, Excel 2003 & PowerPoint 2003 first run.

Word 2003

tom@tom:~$ cd /home/tom/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Office/OFFICE11
tom@tom:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/OFFICE11$ wine winword.exe
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 8202 (SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE)









Excel 2003

tom@tom:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/OFFICE11$ wine excel.exe
fixme:imm:ImmGetDefaultIMEWnd (0x10024 - (nil) 0x12c3e0 ): semi-stub
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33d710,0x00000000), stub!







Power Point 2003

tom@tom:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/OFFICE11$ wine powerpnt.exe
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33a174,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:WIN_CreateWindowEx Parent is HWND_MESSAGE







Notes:

If you open one of the MS Office applications, and you get a dialog box, "Microsoft Office (Word or Excell) has not been installed for the current user. Please run setup to install the application".

1)Run the installer again and use the update/repair operation. (this may fix the problem)
2)Install Office 2003 on wine 0.9.37 (known version to work correctly)

This Guide is now depreciated a new Guide based on Wine 0.9.52 has been posted. Please don't use this Guide! The only reason it's still here is for reference

The New updated Guide is here: Running MS Office 2003 under Linux with Wine 0.9.52.

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