Wine Protected Excel Sheet Problem

**eklikeroomys** · September 19th, 2012

Halo, I am using Ubuntu 12.04 with MS Office 2007 in Wine 1.4.

For some reason, I am unable to open any Excel files that are password protected. Unfortunately, I am forced to do this for work.

Is there any way of getting past this?

Thank you

**Mark Phelps** · September 19th, 2012

You mean, even if you HAVE the password?

Wine doesn't work well with Office versions 2007 or newer.

Check out the link below:

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...ication&iId=11

The SILVER rating means that some functions simply won't work in Wine.

**eklikeroomys** · September 19th, 2012

Yes, I have the password, and I am 100% sure that it is being entered correctly...

I have seen similar problems in forums but it seems like nobody has a solution for this.

**synaptix** · September 19th, 2012

Have you tried maybe running Windows native via a virtualbox?

**eklikeroomys** · September 19th, 2012

Yes I have, but that's really slow and slows down my PC.

**sandyd** · September 19th, 2012

moved to wine forum

**rickm1945** · September 20th, 2012

Originally Posted by eklikeroomys

Yes I have, but that's really slow and slows down my PC.

Why don't you use Libre office Calculator? I use it and works beautifully. You could probably import your excel sheets into it. I don't use any MS office programs any more.
There is also Open Office which I think now is called Apache Open Office both of these office apps are full featured and will do anything MS Office,Excel, will do. I personally have not had very good luck with Wine although some swear by it.