What were they thinking when regedit was created I wonder. You can now close regedit and never look at it again. Now inside this key, again right click->New->DWORD Value. It’s always good practice to read the code before you run it though. This will, among other things, add the Wine repo to your system and all of what is or may be needed. We’ll begin to install all needed dependencies. Just switch to trick the browser to be recognized as a Windows PC. You might want to an agent switcher on your browser. But you’re not forced to just use Ubuntu, just adapt according to your circumstances.Īlright, with that out of the way, let’s get to it.įirst things first, you must download the installer. Just to be clear, this is a standard fully updated Ubuntu 20.04 VM with nothing but the standard stuff.

Not many people would actually find it to be cool.

No 64 bits, just 32, but unless you’re handling massive 2GB spreadsheets, you wouldn’t be able to tell anyway.

The performance isn’t quite there, and every so often you get some visual bugs interacting with menus.

xlsm on Libreoffice isn’t the most fun of experiences, and in many businesses, that’s a necessity.

Well, it’s Microsoft Office, on Linux.

Wine is not an emulator, so, for all purposes, it’s running as if it was native. She didn’t want to use it.īut why would you consider to run Office with Wine? Some Pros and cons.

I saw screenshots online, but not a single tutorial, just glimpses and forum discussions going back and forth trying to find the same I was looking.īut I eventually I got it to work, and now the client could finally use the most recent MS Office, if she wanted. So I decided to work on an alternative solution: Get her to use the most recent Office.Īnd what a pain that turned out to be. While my team was doing that, I thought, “she does have Office 365, why not give it a try?”, after all there were 3 of us trying to simulate the error, one more guy looking at the same wouldn’t be necessary. So we decided to simulate the error on our end, and then work on it.

We had a client with Office 2007 installed on Ubuntu, and it was refusing to do a certain task that she wanted, can’t really remember what. Two years ago, on a bright Summer day, I was sitting on my desk, fiddling with a Cisco Access Point that refused to work, when my boss burst into the door.

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