MS Word 2003 on WINE

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On 11/30/2016 10:55 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to install just the Word part of Office 2003 on WINE?
> 
> I have been happily running Word 97 for years, but I am currently
> working on a big project and the newer version has some useful
> features (such as word-wrap in Outline view, nested tables, and
> smoother DOCX import) that are useful to me.
> 
> Which means I've had to go back to using Windows 10 for now. :-(
> 
> The Office installer runs fine, but after nearly completing, it starts
> popping up a dialog saying "insert disk 1" with a single button "Yes".
> Click this, and the dialog reappears but the button now says "OK"...
> and then it's stuck in a loop forever.
> 
> This is using a trial of Crossover, incidentally, since there are some
> documented issues with vanilla WINE -- which is fine with Word 97.
> 
> LibreOffice, sadly, doesn't have Outline view at all, and is also
> rather slow on my somewhat elderly Thinkpad X200S.
> 

Try WPS Office for linux - it does have outline view:
https://www.wps.com/linux/
http://wps-community.org/downloads

Download the .deb & install with gdebi or dpkg.