Microsoft Excel

What works

Basic functionality is fine - files load without error, and files are saved correctly

What does not

Solver fails to work, and Analysis pack does not work for me.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Printing was not test as no printer available on the test machine.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Install method: yum install wine wine-docs Then mount office11.iso onto /mnt/tmp # mount -o loop,unhide /path/to/office11.iso /mnt/tmp winecfg Check the audio tab, and accept alsa. use winetricks to install gecko, corefonts, msxml3, riched20, riched30 and gdiplus Install office 2003 (wine setup.exe) Then: $ wine cmd $ c:\>regsvr32.exe /u msutb.dll $ c:\>exit

There are some good alternatives to this application that might exist for your platform. You'll find a list on the main page of this application.

(Updated 2012-07-13)

Follow the instructions in the Microsoft Office (installer only) entry for installing. After installing:

• To use the thesaurus, set riched20 to native. 
  
• Starting with ­1.1.38, set gdiplus 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. ­ ­ If using native gdiplus causes Excel­ to crash, the most likely cause is nonconformant ttf fonts installed on your system. (Ubuntu in particular is known to be afflicted.) Run winetricks fontfix to fix this.

It is not necessary to install either of these dlls, as O­ffice installs its own version. Do not set these overrides globally unless Office is installed in a separate wineprefix.

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