This entry is just for testing the installer of Microsoft Office 2007. (Ubuntu and other distro packages. To get office 2007 working, install bin32-wine. Jan 01, 2012 Installing office 2007 in wine is quite easy and on the latest versions it is fully. Installing Microsoft Office 2007 in Ubuntu 8.04/8.10/9.04 using Wine 1.1.12.
Today I had to install Microsoft Office 2007 at work. I don't like it but I had to install it because I work with storyboards (created in MS PowerPoint) and apparently these look differently in OpenOffice/LibreOffice and Microsoft Office 2007+. Since some of you are probably in the same situation as me (one way or another) and have to use Microsoft Office, I though I'd let you know how to install and get it to work in Ubuntu - the process is fairly easy but it involves a little 'trick' to get PowerPoint to work. Install and get Microsoft Office 2007 to work in Ubuntu 1.
Firstly make sure you're running the latest WINE: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install wine1.3. Go to Applications Wine Configure Wine and on the 'Applications tab' select 'Windows XP' under 'Windows Version' and click 'Apply'. Now install Microsoft Office 2007 - to be able to run the 'setup.exe' installer, right click it, select 'Properties' and on the 'Permissions' tab check the 'Allow executing file as program' box.
Now double clicking setup.exe should open it using WINE. If it doesn't, right click it and select 'Open with Wine Windows Program Loader'. Now you can easily install Microsoft Office 2007.
UPDATED POST: (August 18, 2009) Since the day of the release of Wine version 1.1.24 the regression issue was resolved and probably future versions (1.1.24+) will do the same. The guide is just a summary of all the online guides that I have tried and to be honest many of those guides gave me so many headaches for the simple reason, 'I'm a newbie to UBUNTU'. So I've decided to join in this forum last May 2009 and made a simple guide that's especially made for newbies like me.
Thanks to all the online guides that helped me formulate this simple guide all the credits must be given to all of you. HERE ARE THE STEPS: A. WINE CHECK/VERSION CHECK.
If the installation stopped on Step E make sure that you did not miss any step before it but if you're sure that you did all the steps right then my assumption is it's a hardware related problem try to use a different installation media. to be continued. To all the visitors of the guide please help me enumerate common issues in installing MSOffice 2007 and its possible solutions. ORIGINAL POST: (May 30, 2009) 1st REVISION: (June 29, 2009) Last edited by jhoeijao; September 1st, 2009 at 03:24 PM. Reason: Sollutions to Common Issues.