WINE and MS Office

[Peter Goggin]

On 15/08/2014 12:20 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 08/14/2014 03:56 PM, Peter Goggin wrote:
> ...
>>>
>> 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.
>
>
Thanks for the information. I had a look at the various links but the 
Wine links do not tell me how to overcome the problem I am having with 
my two different office versions.  The use of virtual machines seems to 
be a complicated process which may not be justified, since most of the 
work I do can be done in Linux using LibreOffice  and keeping the data 
files in MS Office format. The few programs that require windows are for 
genealogy (FTW), FreeBMD, FreeReg, and Microsoft Access database.

Regards

Peter Goggin

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