Wine & Office 97

[Eberhard Roloff]

Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Hi Gun,
> 
> 
> Gunawan wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> I have install office 97 with wine but it does not run as I expected.
> What exactly is your problem?
> 
> 
>> Where can I get tips or how to install office 97 with wine?
> Google for +"office 97" +wine
> 
> more specifically, frank's corner can help you with this one.
> Start with looking here:
> http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=office97
> 
> In general Off 97 works very well with wine.
> -First install dcom 95
> -Secondly install Internet Explorer. This will give you much needed dlls
> and the truetype fonts that you want with Office.
> 
> -Do a "user directed" installation. Do not install Access (that used to
> fail), do not install IE (that is way to old), do not install Outlook
> (this does not work either), do not install help and sample files (just
> to save some space) and do not install the office assistants (they do
> not work and you will be happy not to have them).
> 
> On a sidenote: Should you need Outlook, this can be done.
> Ex. I used OL97 against Exch. 5.5 and OL2k against Exch.2K
> You better install those apps separately.
> 
> 
>> And should I create any shortcut manually because I can't find any shortcut?
> 
> On a 10.3 Linux this should be done automagically (I did not try with
> Office, but installed some smaller apps and their respective icons were
> created automagically on my KDE desktop.)
Sorry , I cannot comment on this one here. This was erratically taken
from suse. I would try with Kubuntu and if this does not work, or if you
happen to work on a different ubuntu incarnation, just create the
shortcut manually. Something like

wine "/home/eroloff/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Internet
Explorer/iexplore.exe"

should be in the command line, to give you an idea.


> 
> But:
> first be sure, that your program runs ok. Try "wine winword.exe" in the
> programm install directory. If this works you can always easily create
> as many shortcuts as you like. You do not need shortcuts as long as it
> does not work properly.
> 
>> And How to uninstall the program that I have install with wine?
> To get rid of just your Office97:
> Delete the Directory that you installed it to.
> Usually this should be ".wine/Program Files/MS-Office" or similar.
> 
> To get rid of a totally screwed wine installation and to restart from
> scratch:
> "rm -rf .wine"
> 
> Btw:
> I just realized that this year, we celebrate Office 97's tenth birthday.
> 
> Congratulations. There are very few applications around that prosper for
> so long....
> 
> Is there something that prevents you from using the Open Office 2.3
> version from 2007?
> 
> Kind regards
> Eberhard
> 
>