wine users - Nov 2010 - Mint KDE 9: Wine problem with MS Office

Hi,

I have the following problems with Wine on Mint 9 KDE:

1.- When I want to install MS Office 2003 from CD, I execute the "Uninstall
programs" utility of Wine, and the CD Unit cannot be detected; it happens
even when I run the Wine config to detect the CD device, it finds it but when
going back to Install programs, the drive letter is not there.

2. I then ran the setup.exe program directly from Dolphin; it performs the
installation ok. The problem comes when opening an office file from Dolphin:
when I click "Open with...", there are 2 icons for MS Word: one with a
wine glass icon, and one with a question mark icon. When I open the word file
with the wine glass program, it opens Word with an empty document; its not
opening the one I selected in the file manager. When I open the file with the MS
Word that has the question mark icon, it opens the doc file correctly. On Excel
files, Excel opens ok with the selected excel file.

3.- On the App Launcher menu, under Wine, I see 2 Programs folders were created
(duplicated); one contains MS Office apps, the other contains just accessories.

4.- In Dolphin, when I want to associate the word documents to be opened with MS
Word, only the MS Word with Wine Glass icon appears, and that is the one that
has problems.

How to fix this?

alquimista wrote:
> When I want to install MS Office 2003 from CD, I execute the
"Uninstall programs" utility of Wine,
Why would you select uninstall when you want to install? 

> When I open the word file with the wine glass program, it opens Word with
an empty document; its not opening the one I selected in the file manager.
What version of Wine? This sounds like a bug that was fixed awhile ago.  If
you're not using the latest development release, upgrade.