Microsoft Excel

What works

Running Excel

Editing Spreadsheets

Math, All of it.

Saving And Loading Spreadsheets 

Turning On The Flight Simulator

Generating Charts

Coloring Squares

Having Multiple Spreadsheets Open 

What does not

Visual Basic Editor (I blame the installer not being able to register a few DLL's)

Office Assistant (Acts like the act files where removed)

The Flight Simulator is a little jacked up, it is stuck in a circle, colors are wrong and there is a big line though the screen. On Pressing escape it changes your resolution to a very small number.

Macros 

Workarounds

What was not tested

Some of the chart wizard objects, all of them should work, however.   

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

First Time Ran you need to run with /e, to do this go to a terminal and type the fallowing: wine cmd C: cd "Program Files (x86)" cd "Microsoft Office" cd Office excel.exe /e After that first run it can be started as normal, as long as you put in your name and initials. Also due to the installer crashing it is recommended that you add a shourtcut or script to excel.exe, as one is never made.

Ok, go to any terminal of your choice, make sure you are logged in as you, and that wine is in your path. On Ubuntu all this is done for you.

You may need to replace some of the path names with the ones you entered during Excel/Office 97 installation. If you didn't change them, you can safely type all these commands word-for-word.

Type The Fallowing Commands:

1. wine cmd
2. C:
3. cd "Program Files (x86)"
4. cd "Microsoft Office"
5. cd Office
6. excel.exe /e

And then put in your name and initials, press OK, and your done! You don't need to do this again every time you open Excel, only the first to enter your name and initials.

Installing a service release for older versions of Office (Pre-2003) are not essential but are there if you need them.

Official details on Service Release 1 can be found Here. 

1. Get Service Release 1 (Download Here, MS has stopped hosting it)
2. Run the file, make sure all MS Office programs are closed.
3. Read (or not) and agree to the license agreement.
4. It will then give you a summary of what it can update or not.
5. Press continue, the window will go white for a few seconds, don't panic.
6. It will start copying files, wait patiently.
7. It will ask you if you want to shutdown now, press yes (your computer will not restart, only Wine will fake a few things)
8. Your done.

You need to install this before Service Release 2(b) if you are going to do so.

This service release adds full Y2K conformity to Office 97.

Official details Here. Official download Here, mirror Here.

Office 97 Service Release 2b can not be installed as it can't find the Office 97 installation. I blame the Office 97 installer, it can't finish registering itself in the system.