Installing Office 2007

[rks171]

I'll keep that in mind for wine, but is there any benefit of using wine over virtualbox (besides not having to buy windows XP if you don't already have it)?

I already installed guest additions... it looks to me that I'll be able to blow off my windows partition and reclaim that space for linux now that I have a virtual machine running.

[sarin_cv]

hi...I think you can use open office instead of using office 2007.

[dragonbite]

Originally Posted by rks171

I'll keep that in mind for wine, but is there any benefit of using wine over virtualbox (besides not having to buy windows XP if you don't already have it)?

I already installed guest additions... it looks to me that I'll be able to blow off my windows partition and reclaim that space for linux now that I have a virtual machine running.

Could just reformat the partition with WinXP on it, mount it and place your virtual machine image files and snapshots there?

[rks171]

Hey guys,

I think I figured out the problems I've been having. I mentioned setup wasn't working in VM XP. I figured I'd boot into XP and retry the install of Office2007 there. I tried and it failed there too. It turns out the disk was bad. I made a copy of the disk in Windows XP some time ago and the copy doens't work. I got a good copy and it installed fine in VM XP. I'm guessing that was also the problem with Wine, but I didn't try it and don't plan on it since I think it will work better for me in virtualbox anyways. Sucks the problem was totally unrelated to Wine/Virtualbox, but I guess that just happens sometimes. Thanks for the help.

[didencool]

where can i download trial version to check if it work with wine for me?
PS:
I found it on ms site... so sorry for this post

[didencool]

@Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:16:01 +0000, didencool write:

> where can i download trial version to check if it work with wine for me?
> PS:
> I found it on ms site... so sorry for this post

so I download some from ms site
i start it with installation

err:module:import_dll Library MFC80U.DLL (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\VISLIB.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCR80.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\VISLIB.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP80.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\VISLIB.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library VISLIB.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\VISIO.EXE") not found
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCR80.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\VISIO.EXE") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\VISIO.EXE" failed, status c0000135

but visio did not run after installation... so I think it will needed add thith libraries into wine path
MFC80U.DLL
MSVCR80.dll
VISLIB.dll
MSVCR80.dll
it will need some time to check this
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WBR

[caf4926]

You have to desperate to go to all this over M$ Office.

Just stick it in a VM.

[bitrate]

Originally Posted by caf4926

You have to desperate to go to all this over M$ Office.

Just stick it in a VM.

Nothing desperate about it.

Despite what some Linux nerds think, Office 2007 is a widely used application suite which surpasses OpenOffice in every way

The best way to run O2K7 with the least resource usage is using Crossover Linux Pro. Yes, it's a commercial product but it's well worth it.

[rks171]

I thought about using OO.o, but the Office2007 interface is just so much nicer. Couple that with the fact that all the work I've been doing on my research project this past year was with Office2007 (OO.o just isn't good enough converting .docx .xlsx files). I really love the equation editor that comes with Word 2007, too. The styles are sweet too. Excel on the other hand kind of pisses me off with how much it crashes.

[dragonbite]

IBM's Symphony shows promise, but unless they have done a lot of tinkering under the hood, I found it slow and unstable.