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Microsoft Office (installer only) 2007



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NameMicrosoft Office (installer only)
Version2007
License Retail
URLhttp://www.msoffice.com
Votes 30
RatingPlatinum
Wine Version1.5.20
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Description

This entry is just for testing the installer of Microsoft Office 2007 (aka Office 12) office suite.

Please see the individual AppDB entries for reports on running specific programs included in Office 2007.

Office 2007 is available in 8 editions and 3 different licenses:

  • Basic (OEM only)
  • Home & Student (Retail or OEM)
  • Standard (Retail, OEM, or volume license)
  • Small Business (Retail, OEM, or volume license)
  • Professional (Retail or OEM)
  • Professional Plus (Volume license only)
  • Enterprise (Volume license only)
  • Ultimate (Retail, limited edition student license)

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 2007 Programs see the relevant AppDB 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.
Powerpoint Create slideshows with animation and sound.
FrontPage WYSIWYG HTML Editor from Microsoft.
Microsoft Outlook Email, Calendar, Contact Manager, and more.­
­OneNote­ Note-taking­

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Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)

What works
Initial install (normal or customized)


What does not
Rerunning the installer to add or remove programs. The installer does not recognize that Office 2007 is already installed and asks for the product key rather than showing the dialog to change an existing install.


What was not tested
Full install


Additional Comments

Office 2007 Enterprise
Test Results
DistributionTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?RatingSubmitter
ShowUbuntu 12.04 "Precise" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jan 04 20131.5.20 Yes Yes Platinum Joey Chang 
ShowChakra LinuxOct 04 20121.5.14 Yes Yes Platinum Nicko Vargas 
ShowFedora 17 x86_64Aug 29 20121.5.11 Yes Yes Gold Zhiqiang Ma 
ShowUbuntu 12.04 "Precise" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Aug 27 20121.5.11 No Not installable Garbage Jim 
ShowopenSUSE 11.4 x86_64May 30 20121.5.5 Yes Yes Platinum Rosanne 

Known bugs
Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
15027 Microsoft Office 2007, Adobe AfterEffects 6 installers EULA very slow NEW View
20250 Incorrect icons associated with MS Office 2007 documents UNCONFIRMED View
22494 Microsoft Office 2007 cannot be activated UNCONFIRMED View
27457 MS Office Tools menu are duplicated in localized version UNCONFIRMED View
30785 MS Office 2007 reports msmxl 5 as uninstalled (WoW64) NEW View

 
A warning about outside HOWTOs

There are many howtos for installing Office 2007 floating about the internet. These howtos are rarely maintained by their authors, and because of the rapid rate of Wine development, even ones that were accurate at the time they were posted quickly become outdated.

In the case of Office 2007, many of these outside howtos call for installing a long list of winetricks that are unnecessary to install in current Wine. Some of these tweaks can, in fact, prevent Office apps from working properly. 

The only howto for installing Office 2007 that is supported here is the one on this page.

If you insist on following an outside howto, ask its author for help. If you ask for help on the forum/mailing list after following an outside howto, you will be told to reinstall in a clean wineprefix following the instructions on this page. Save everyone's time by doing that before you post a question.

 
Known Regressions

(Updated 2012-03-19)

The Wine versions below are known to have regressions that affect the Office 2007 installer. Do not try to install in them:

  • 1.4-rc1: SP2 & SP3 do not install correctly
  • 1.3.30
  • 1.3.21: SP2 does not install correctly
  • 1.3.16-1.3.17
  • 1.3.7­­­
  • 1.3.2
  • 1.2.0 and 1.2.1 (Ubuntu and other distro packages compiled with fortify)
  • 1.1.17 throug­h 1.1.23
    • ­
  • ­all versions prior to 1.1.3 ­(i­ncludes 1.0.1)

 
HOWTO

­­­­­(Updated 2012-2-26)

­Note: these instructions have been tested and verified to work on the Enterprise, Pro, and Home & Student editions of Office 2007, installing from a cd.

How To Install Microsoft Office 2007

Use the most recent version of Wine known to work for Office 2007 (see list of known bad versions above). In most cases this will be the latest development release. 

Install to a clean wineprefix (no winetricks or other tweaks, no other applications installed).

­­Note: I­f you have 64 bit Wine inst­alled, you must create a 32 bit wineprefix for Office 2007 or the installed programs will not be usable.­

­ WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/path/to/wineprefix winecfg

­­(Substitute the actual path for /path/to/wineprefix in the above command.) ­

Make sure your version of wine is set to Windows XP. 

Insert the disk.

Open the disk and right click on setup.exe and select "Open with wine windows program loader." Or open a terminal, navigate to the disk, and run the installer with: 

wine setup.exe

The progress bar in the installer window may stop when it reaches about 2/3 of the way. The installation is continuing, even though the the progress bar is not moving. Wait for it to finish.

Note :­No overrides are nee­ded to install Microsoft Office 2007. However to get Microsoft Office 2007 to run correctly once it has been installed some overrides may be necessary. See below for instructions.

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Post Installation Instructions­

Once installed, one override is necessary. Without it, Powerpoint and Infopath with not start, and some dialog boxes in other Office apps will not display correctly. Follow the steps below:

Open winecfg by going to Applications > Wine > Configure Wine. Or open a terminal and type: 

winecfg

In the Libraries tab in the area labeled "New override for library" type in riched20.dll and click on Add.

You will see it appear in the list below. Now select the riched20 in the list that we just added and click on the Edit button.

Set it to Native (Windows) and click OK.

This will allow Powerpoint and the other applications to run correctly.

Note :Do not install riched20 with winetricks. Office 2007 installs its own version of riched20.

If Office is installed in a separate wineprefix (strongly recommended), you can safely set the override globally. If not, set the overrides separately for each Office application. Note that if you do the latter you must set the override for all exes installed by Office, not just the main ones.

­Installing Office 2007 Service Packs­

Service Packs install correctly for versions 1.3.18 through 1.3.20, and 1.3.22 and later. In 1.3.21 the installer­ will report success, but PDF and ODF support are not added.

If you are still experie­ncing problems check the Post Install Tweaks section below.


 
Post-install tweaks

(updated 2011-10-27)

Note : Do not file bug reports for the installer if you have used any native DLLs.

Once installed, the following tweaks may be needed:

  • wingdings.ttf: Most of the default bullet characters are from this font; if it is not installed on your system, Wine will substitute characters from a font that is installed on your system. If you want the bullets to look the same as they do in Windows, install this font.

The above are the most commonly-used tweaks. Individual AppDB entries may contain additional, app-specific information.


 
Guidelines for Submitting Test Reports

 

  1. Test in a clean wineprefix, using plain Wine. 
  2. Specify exactly which edition of Office 2007 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.

    6. Test reports that do not follow these guidelines will be rejected.


 

The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.

clarifications on instructions
by Steve on Tuesday October 9th 2012, 12:28
Readers unfamiliar with how environment variables work will probably not succeed at following these instructions as written. The instructions specify to define a new wine prefix but don't say that we should save it as the default. That's fine, but requires defining WINEPREFIX and WINEARCH before every wine-related command. For example my terminal commands were:

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/home/steve/.wineoffice2007 winecfg

cd [directory where setup.exe is]

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/home/steve/.wineoffice2007 wine setup.exe

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/home/steve/.wineoffice2007 winecfg

I figured this out after my first installation went into the wrong place, and didn't work properly.

I'm not the only one to make this mistake, e.g. forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=13501

Therefore I suggest to reword the instructions to be more explicit for novices like me. :-)

Anyway, my Office 2007 is working perfectly so far (knock on wood), and I thank the volunteers for their heroic efforts! :-D

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math equations in MS Office 2007 Word
by tim on Sunday September 23rd 2012, 9:14
I copy some math equation from MathType equation editor 6.8 into a word document opened in MS Office 2007 Word. However, the word document cannot be saved properly as whenever I tried to save it, Word will close itself unexpectedly for some unstated serious problem.

Also I tried to use the math equation functionality of Word itself, The problem happens

My wine version is 1.4. My OS is Ubuntu 12.04.

Please let me know how to solve this problem. Thanks!

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cannot print
by Karl on Thursday July 26th 2012, 9:14
Hi folks,

I've got a little issue about MS Office 2007 SP 3 running from wine. It won't print any document. On the other hand, Linux programmes use to interact nicely with the installed printers.

In the Office dialogue, I'm shown the installed printers, but they don't work ... How can this be solved?

Thanks in advance! Karl

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