On Wednesday 06 November 2002 02:38, Anant Kabra wrote:> Hi,
>
> I had a question regrading wine and office.
>
> From my understanding... Codeweavers crossover office and wine are
> essentially the same code base. But codeweavers seems to install office
> 2k (specifically word) and work with it fine. I haven't been able to
get
> a successful install of word in wine yet. I have been able to use word
> from an existing windows install and saving the files as RTF.
>
> So my question is...
>
> What is the difference between codeweavers and wine, or what do I need
> to do in wine that will let me install and use word on a standalone
> installation of wine?
I have no success installing office 2k with wine either. But the office97
installed ok.
For running word (and saving files in .doc), you very probably need to use
native ole32.dll (look at your ~/.wine/config, at the DllOverrides section).
Regards
Zsolt