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Microsoft Office (installer only) 2003



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NameMicrosoft Office (installer only)
Version2003
License Retail
URLhttp://www.msoffice.com
Votes 5
RatingSilver
Wine Version1.1.35
Maintainers of this version:
Description

This entry is just for testing the installer of Microsoft Office 2003 office suite.

Note that Office 2003 was distributed in 6 different versions:

  • Basic (OEM only)
  • Home & Student
  • Standard
  • Small Business
  • Professional
  • Professional Enterprise (volume license only)
When reporting test results, please follow the Guidelines for Submitting Test Reports below (scroll down to notes section).

For information on the individual Microsoft Office 2003 Programs see the relevant wine apps entry.
Application Name Description
Excel Number crunching for the masses...
Access Design your own relational database.
Word The largest and most well-known word processing software currently available.
Microsoft Powerpoint Create slideshows with animation and sound.
FrontPage WYSIWYG HTML Editor from Microsoft.
Microsoft Outlook Email, Calendar, Contact Manager, and more.
Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)

What works
Installer runs normally, no issues, but 'custom' installation (selecting specific applications) results in all applications being installed. Same observation as other tests.


What does not
'Custom' installation ignores selections and installs everything.


What was not tested
N/A


Additional Comments


Test Results
DistributionTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?RatingSubmitter
CurrentUbuntu 9.10 "Karmic" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Dec 28 20091.1.35 Yes Yes Silver Ron Erhardt 
ShowopenSUSE 11.1Nov 26 20091.1.33 Yes Yes Silver Rosanne 
ShowopenSUSE 11.1Oct 15 20091.1.31 Yes Yes Silver Rosanne 
ShowMandriva 2009.1 'Spring'Aug 12 20091.1.27 Yes Yes Silver Daniel Uto 
ShowLinux Mint 7 "Gloria"Jul 20 20091.1.26 Yes Yes Platinum Mike Lakomy 


Known bugs
Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
6719 Office 2000/2003 - installer ignore selected functions NEW View
10354 Microsoft Office 2003 installer is missing a portion of the dialog on finish REOPENED View

 
HOWTO

(Updated:2009-12-19)


­Many of the instructions for installing Office 2003 that can be found on various websites are badly outdated.

Current versions of Wine do not require any overrides to install Office 2003 Pro.  Install as you would in Windows: insert th­e cd and run setup.exe.

Do not report bugs for the installer if you have used any overrides. 

If you are using a version of Wine older than 1.0, you should upgrade to either the current stable or development release. 

Once Office 2003 is installed, set the following overrides in winecfg:

  • riched20: set to native; needed for the thesaurus
  • gdiplus: for ­1.1.38, set to native, builtin. This override is not needed for earlier versions, as prior to 1.1.38 the default behavior was to favor gdiplus that was installed ­by the app itself.

(It is not necessary to install these dlls, as Office installs its own version.)­


Known regressions (do not attempt to install in these versions):

  • 1­.1.35: while the installer works fine, there is a regression (bug 21071) that prevents saving files in Word. Do not use this version if you need Word.­  ­ 
  • 1.1.17 through 1.1.23
  • 1.1.1 and 1.1.2
  • 1.1.2 through 1.1.9  (German and Spanish versions of Office 2003) 
­­

Older versions of Wine apparently had problems with the language bar. A user posted these instructions to disable it:

$ wine cmd
$ c:\>regsvr32.exe /u msutb.dll
$ c:\>exit
Now rename ctfmon.exe in your .wine/drive_c/windows/system32 to something else (or just delete it).


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Questions?
The comments below are not regularly monitored. Please post any questions or requests for help on the forum.

 
Guidelines for Submitting Test Reports
  1. Test in a clean wineprefix with plain Wine.
  2. Specify exactly which edition of Office 2003 you tested (Standard, Pro, etc.) This is crucial--bugs that affect one edition may not affect others.
  3. Specify exactly what type of install you tested (Typical, Custom, Minimal, etc.)
  4. Limit your report to the installer only. Reports on the performance of individual apps should be filed under their respective AppDB entries. Problems with running any of the apps should only be mentioned if it is clear that it is due to a problem with the installer.
  5. If you used any overrides during the install, please list them and explain exactly what problem each override was needed to solve. 
Test reports that do not follow these guidelines will be rejected.

 




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