WINE and MS Office

[Peter Goggin]

On 15/08/2014 4:01 AM, Normand Marion wrote:
> If you want to use MS-Office you certainly have good reasons, but 
> sometime the installation could be tricky. A good place to get 
> information is https://www.winehq.org/.
>
> Did you ever consider LibreOffice. Except for Access and some macro in 
> Excel, using LibreOffice is a good alternative and almost more 
> reliable. LibreOffice is compatible with almost every Office document.
>
>
> 2014-08-14 0:30 GMT-04:00 Peter Goggin <petergoggin at bigpond.com 
> <mailto:petergoggin at bigpond.com>>:
>
>     I have installed WINE on my test laptop. I tried to install Office
>     2000. The install completed successfully but when I tried to run
>     Access it complained of a missing DLL. I did a full install of all
>     components but still got the same error.
>
>     I then tried toi install Office XP. . Theinstall asked for a
>     directory to install in. The default was C:
>     \programfiles\Microsoft Office. What should this be. If I leave it
>     as default the install stops with an error at the first component
>     it tries to load.
>
>     Any help in solving the problem with either version of MS office
>     will be gratefull accepted.
>
>     Regards
>
>     Peter Goggin
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> *Normand Marion*
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I have four laptops running windows XP. I cannot afford to upgrade to 
windows 8.  I am converting them to Ubuntu one at a time. The first one 
has an Access data base which I need. The effort of converting to 
LibreBase  in effect means starting from scratch and recreating the 
whole data base, including forms, reports etc. As far as I can find 
there is no easy way of getting the Access data base into a Linux 
database. I thought it would be simpler to run Wine and keep the 
database as is.  Unfortunately I was unable to get either of my copies 
of MS Office to install.
I have tried OpenOffice as well as LibreOffice but neither allows me to 
convert the data base.  I have tried the site you suggested, but each 
time I try a search I get the response search is not available try later.

Regards

Peter Goggin





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