Installed Office 2007, but i have some problems
Hello all ..
I had successfully installed office 2007 on my ubuntu 7.10 amd 64.
This was done following these steps .. thanks goes to him.
I have some problems:
1- Although word and excel work fine, power point fails to start .. a splash .. then close .. did any1 manage to fix it ?
2- I want to add Calibri and other office 2007 fonts .. how is this done ?
3- the word does not type right-to-left text correctly .. can this be fixed ? I type arabic text in native ubuntu aplications normally with no problems.
Thanks in advance,
Tarek
Re: Installed Office 2007, but i have some problems
May I ask why you are not using OpenOffice (which is as good as it gets as long as open source software goes)? Incompatibility problems?
Re: Installed Office 2007, but i have some problems
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Originally Posted by
erginemr
May I ask why you are not using OpenOffice (which is as good as it gets as long as open source software goes)? Incompatibility problems?
Although there's a .docx converter .. the interoperability between OpenOffice and Microsoft is too poor.
I have to read/edit docx files.
Not all of my work mates use ubuntu :)
Re: Installed Office 2007, but i have some problems
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Originally Posted by
tarekeldeeb
Although there's a .docx converter .. the interoperability between OpenOffice and Microsoft is too poor.
I have to read/edit docx files.
Not all of my work mates use ubuntu :)
OpenOffice 3.0 is coming in September with Word, Excel and Powerpoint 2007 file compatibility built in, and I better than the converter.
Can you not get your colleagues to save in the old formats, at least in some cases?
Re: Installed Office 2007, but i have some problems
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2- I want to add Calibri and other office 2007 fonts .. how is this done ?
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For your second question, I am not sure if it will work, but you may try to put the fonts in question into your virtual Windows drive under "C:\Windows\Fonts" which really is under:
Code:
~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts
Re: Installed Office 2007, but i have some problems
tarekeldeeb,
In addition to copying the fonts to the "C:\Windows\Fonts" folder under Wine's virtual drive, you might try adding it the fonts to Ubuntu's font folder, located at /usr/share/fonts/truetype for truetype fonts. The easiest way to copy them would be in Nautilus obviously, so just run
(since it's only root-writable) at the console, navigate to the font files and toss them in /usr/share/fonts/truetype. That should work.
Re: Installed Office 2007, but i have some problems
You might want to try wine-doors. Go through the initial steps and it will install fonts for you.
http://www.wine-doors.org/wordpress/
Re: Installed Office 2007, but i have some problems
thank u ..
I love this community :lolflag:
Re: Installed Office 2007, but i have some problems
Everyone's having trouble with Powerpoint 2007 still. I installed Office 2007 this morning and still can't figure it out.
Of course, Powerpoint 2003 still runs great if you want to try it.
Re: Installed Office 2007, but i have some problems
for PowerPoint: set riched20 to native
for the font issue:
This is very easy to fix:
1. install FontForge
2. navigate to the fonts directory.
3. open the font you want (Calibri) and do NOT import the bitmaps fonts
4. file -> generate fonts : save as TrueType and with the option "No Bitmap Fonts" (and I recommend to disable the validate before saving option)
5. rename and replace the font
6. repeat this with the Italic and bold variants
Have a nice day!:)