<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/08/2014 4:01 AM, Normand Marion wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CALB0nJZWJFEN+h6YAq9tcN4Q4sF8K+_Qu2nwsGCth7Tnz43zig@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr"> <div>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 <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.winehq.org/">https://www.winehq.org/</a>. </div> 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. </div> <div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">2014-08-14 0:30 GMT-04:00 Peter Goggin <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:petergoggin@bigpond.com" target="_blank">petergoggin@bigpond.com</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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 --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.avast.com" target="_blank">http://www.avast.com</a> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote> </div> -- Normand Marion <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:normand.marion@gmail.com" target="_blank">normand.marion@gmail.com</a> </div> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> 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 <hr style='border:none; color:#909090; background-color:#B0B0B0; height: 1px; width: 99%;' /> <table style='border-collapse:collapse;border:none;'> <tr> <td style='border:none;padding:0px 15px 0px 8px'> <a href="http://www.avast.com/"> <img border=0 src="http://static.avast.com/emails/avast-mail-stamp.png" /> </a> </td> <td> This email is free from viruses and malware because <a href="http://www.avast.com/">avast! Antivirus</a> protection is active. </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>