wine users - Jun 2008 - MS Excel Visual Basic

Hello,

I'm running MS Office 2003 in Wine 1.1.0.  When I launch Excel, the
following dialog box appears with a cryptic error message:


Code:

Microsoft Visual Basic
! Error accessing file.  Network connection may have been lost.




I don't know what Visual Basic has in common with a network connection, but
when I attempt to utilize Tools > Macros > Visual Basic Editor, all of the
Visual Basic menus are greyed out.  I also cannot connect to Microsoft Office
Online.

I turned off the computer's firewall, but I still cannot connect to
Microsoft Office Online.  I also tried reinstalling and repairing Microsoft
Office, but that didn't work eitherr.  Does anyone know how to correct this
error?

The same problem existed with Versions 0.9.X.

TIA

Sounds like this bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8795
There's a workaround in the bug report.

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Dcom98 contains three dlls from Windows 98: ole32, oleaut32, and rpcrt4. The
easiest way to install it is through winetricks:

Code:
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks dcom98


The winetricks script will set the override globally, and if you have any other
programs installed in that wineprefix it may affect them. If that happens, you
can fix it through winecfg.