WINE and MS Office

[NoOp]

On 08/14/2014 03:56 PM, Peter Goggin wrote:
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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.

Try again:

<https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=31>
<https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?bIsQueue=false&bIsRejected=false&sClass=vendor&iId=5&sAction=view&sTitle=View+Developer>
<https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=12>

You can of course just dual-boot (XP and Ubuntu), but instead I highly
recommend just running XP in a virtual machine. I have several of my old
XP's running using VMWare Player (also using VirtualBox). Of course that
subject isn't for this list, but these might help get you started:
<https://www.google.com/#q=vmware+windows+xp>
<https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/6_0>
<http://www.vmware.com/products/converter>
https://www.vmware.com/pdf/convsa_55_guide.pdf
<https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=CONV55_GA&productId=37>

<https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows>

Note: If you need to reactivate XP, it's not a problem - just follow the
reactivation prompts provided in XP. I've reactivated several of mine
multiple times (all legal versions) when moving to vm's.