Retail release January 29, 2013
This entry is just for testing the installer of Microsoft Office 2013 (aka Office 15) office suite.
Reports on specific programs included in Office 2013 should be submitted to their respective AppDB entries.
Office 2013 is available in 5 editions:
Application Details:
Version: | 2013 (32 bit) |
License: | Retail |
URL: | http://www.office.com |
Votes: | 10 |
Latest Rating: | Gold |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 4.19 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Installation and starting Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
What does not
Installer does not start.
Workarounds
If you try to install Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 English (32 Bit) on a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) System, you may have problems during installation. I explain how I managed to successfully install it.
How to solve the problem and correct steps for installation
1. As a first step you have to install wine
sudo apt install wine-stable winbind winetricks
2. Start the installation process. In this example I use $HOME/prefix32. The folder will be created by wine and may not exist already.
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/prefix32" WINEARCH=win32 wine /path/to/your/office_setup.exe
3. We have to install an additional component.
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/prefix32" WINEARCH=win32 winetricks
A window will open as in the following image, apply configration like photos.
4. Now we have to make an adjustment to the windows registry
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/prefix32" WINEARCH=win32 winetricks
Here you most add a new key and DOWRD value.
5. Now we set the wine environment to windows xp in winecfg
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/prefix32" WINEARCH=32 winetricks
Then set the Windows version to Windows XP.
6. As a last step reboot your operating system, after that you will find word, excel and powerpoint in the application menu.
If you have a problem you can test by directly opening a binary:
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/prefix32" wine ~/prefix32/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Office/your office version. eg. 2013(Office15)/POWERPNT.EXE
What was not tested
other applications except for Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
I installed it in KVM Virtual Machine.
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Nov 03 2019 | 4.19 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | nomadmz | |
Show | Debian 10.x "Buster" | Jul 14 2019 | 4.12.1-staging | No, but has workaround | No | Yes | Garbage | boskar | |
Show | Fedora 29 x86_64 | Feb 03 2019 | 4.0 | No | Not installable | No | Garbage | Clément Duveau | |
Show | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Oct 29 2018 | 3.19 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Jonathan | |
Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Oct 14 2018 | 3.17 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | MK |
Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
31349 | Office 365 (Office 2013) web installer aborts early (needs support for string alias for common RID in sid strings) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
31468 | Office 2013 installer crashes with a "serious problem" error | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
31487 | kernel32.dll.InitOnceExecuteOnce needed for several MS installer (Office2013 / Windows Essentials 2012 / .NET Framework 4.5 / Skydrive / ARM Applications) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
34869 | Microsoft Office 2013 full offline installer crashes on startup (TEB access with NULL TLS array pointer, failure to handle case where only late-bound modules have TLS directory) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
35342 | Office 2013 full offline install setup crash at startup | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
36092 | Microsoft Office 2013 (15.0) and OneNote web installer crashes on unimplemented function IPHLPAPI.DLL.CreateSortedAddressPairs | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
38648 | Multiple games and applications need support for Mesa OpenGL >= 3.2 core profiles, Shader Model 4, GLSL 1.50 (Microsoft Office 2013 installer, .NET/XNA games) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
39810 | Office 2007/2010/2013/2016 uninstallation fails | NEW | View | |
43581 | Microsoft Office 365 edition of Office 2013 installer fails with 'cache_entry_from_xsd_doc failed to parse doc' (non-standard '\u####' sequence) | NEW | View | |
43783 | Office2013 activation crashes when using HTTP proxy | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
44036 | Multiple installers fail (affects MS Office 2010/2013, Notation Composer 3) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
45284 | Multiple Microsoft Office installers crash with Windows 8+ setting due to missing 'user32.RegisterPointerDeviceNotifications' stub (Office 2013) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
Test reports that do not follow these guidelines will be rejected.
(2018-01-07)
There are known regressions affecting the Office 2013 installer in the versions of Wine listed below. Do not attempt to install in them.
2.18--3.0-rc4 (bug 44036)
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
by braytac on Sunday October 7th 2018, 12:48
1)- Left click
2)- If major item is selected for [ install sub-items complety OR partialy ]
-> Press up arrow once for not install any (X)
If major item is selected for [ not install any (X) ]
-> Press down arrow once for install ALL
3)- Press Enter
Similar for subitems:
If subitem marked for not install (X) -> change to install: left click->Enter
If subitem marked for install -> change to not install: left click->arrow Up -> Enter
by Benjamin D. on Saturday October 7th 2017, 8:14
But when i run Word I also entcounter the black window problem. I searched out fot the HKCU\Software\Wine\Direct3D\ reg entry but i couldn't even find the Direct3D entry anywhere. Am I missing something?
Besides: I used playonlinux to install office 2013 but before i did the installation auf the setup.exe i installed msxml4 followed by msxml6. This did the job for installation....
Thanks anyway cool job!
Best Benjamin.
by Rosanne on Saturday October 7th 2017, 8:27
by Benjamin D. on Saturday October 7th 2017, 9:40
Best Benjamin.
by nomadmz on Sunday November 3rd 2019, 16:11
by Tormen on Friday March 24th 2017, 13:39
It seems really bizzarre, but I tried it several times:
With the trial version (both German (de-de) and English (en-us)) downloaded from
www.microsoft.com/de-de/evalcenter/evaluate-office-professional-plus-2013
And mount the img file OfficeProfessionalPlus_x86_en-us.img to /mnt/iso.
When I create a fresh WINEPREFIX, set it to win7 and then install winetricks msxml6 and then run the setup, like so:
mkdir -p /virt/wines/ms.office2013
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/virt/wines/ms.office2013/ winetricks settings win7
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/virt/wines/ms.office2013/ winetricks msxml6
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/virt/wines/ms.office2013/ wine /mnt/iso/setup.exe
The behaviour of the setup changes!
It starts with first asking you to enter a product key.
And no matter what product key I entered, they all never worked (even though they should).
Without installing the msxml6, I saw a bunch of xml related messages in the output when launcching the setup, but in this case the setup right away offers to configure and install ms office!
Is that logical that with the msxml6 installed, this would then actually /break/ something ?
If helpful, I could provide debug output and/or file a bug report.
Thanks a lot in advance for any feedback!
Tormen