Installing Microsoft Office 2007 in Ubuntu 8.04/8.10/9.04 using Wine 1.1.12 to 16

[safarin]

Cool... Thank you. My one week problem solved!

[jhoeijao]

Cool... Thank you. My one week problem solved!

You're welcome.

It's good that you took only a week to solve your problem if my memory serves me right it took me a month and a half to solve my problem before and this guide is the result of that one and a half month of researching.

[BenTX]

Hello jhoeijao, I followed your guide, and it worked flawlessly, thanks for posting this!

Here are a few questions I have as I compare this installation to a similar one on my Windows box:

1. I would like to download/install Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (or the latest SP), however after researching the forums, I have not found a solution on how to do this. Let me know if you can help.
2. I had the option of saving a document as a PDF from within the menu in Word 2007, now, in its place I see "Find add-ins for other file formats". How do I get this option back? or is this related to the lack of Office SP3?
3. When I open a Word document originally composed in Windows, text that was originally bolded, does not "appear" bolded on my Linux box. However, when I select the text, the toolbar up top indicates it IS bolded. How do I fix this?
4. Again, when I open a 15 page Word doc originally composed in Windows, the formatting of the whole document is different, i.e. placement of text, pictures, tables, etc are in different areas of the document. How do I get my Word doc to "look" the same as it did on my Windows box? or is this possible?

Thanks again,
Ben