Hi there again! I have installed Office 2007 under wine vista without incidents but when I try to open its applications I get .exe has encountered a problem and it needs to close. I need wine to be vista because I have another program which will flicker in xp. If I install Office under wine xp everything works fine. What should I do? Thank you! Andreea.
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:59 AM, andreea_s <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Hi there again! > > I have installed Office 2007 under wine vista without incidents but when I try to open its applications I get .exe has encountered a problem and it needs to close. > I need wine to be vista because I have another program which will flicker in xp. > If I install Office under wine xp everything works fine. > What should I do? > Thank you! >Use more than 1 prefix. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-f2f5f3bc795247f11962ea613a1f9e15657ad552 John
You could add (say "add application") and select Office 2007 under the applications tab in winecfg and set it to "xp". Anything you do in winecfg while Office 2007 is selected under applications only is applied to Office 2007, as opposed to having "default" selected, which applies to all applications that don't have there own set of settings in winecfg (don't show up in a list under default). Or You could put Office 2007 in its own prefix, and set that prefix to "xp". Make new folder in home folder (or wherever) Name it "msoffice" (or whatever) Run from terminal: WINEPREFIX=$HOME/msoffice [or wherever you put it] winecfg Let it update the prefix. Say "xp mode" in winecfg. Close winecfg after applying. Run from terminal: "WINEPREFIX=$HOME/msoffice [or wherever you put it] wine [path to msoffice installer, you can just drag the installer into terminal instead of typing out the whole path]" Now msoffice will be in it's own prefix with its own settings. Or Just install native LibreOffice which is open source, doesn't cost money, and will run natively on your OS. Cheers, Jake
Thank you guys! You have been extremely helpful! Cheers right back! :* Have a nice day/evening! Andreea.
SpawnHappyJake wrote:> You could add (say "add application") and select Office 2007 under the applications tab in winecfg and set it to "xp".Office 2007 is not one application; it is a suite of apps, and you would have to do that for every single exe it installs. It is much simpler to install Office to its own wineprefix.