Crossover Office in Linux compatibility mode

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sysman

In order to use MS office suite programs I thought to run Crossover Office for linux in compatibility mode, in place of wine, that is too tricky to use with Office applications. Does anybody has experience about how to make crossover operative on freebsd8? :\

Thanks
SYS
 
sysman,

To get word and excel 2007 working in wine is trivial.

You don't need to use winetricks or any hacks, it just installs and works perfectly*.

Give it a go.

If you do not 100% need Office, then I definately suggest going with openoffice instead.

*minus the typical problems that even crossover wouldn't solve.
 
@all

I dont want openoffice though, I have to use MSOffice heavly, in particular I *NEED* work on MS outlook shipped into MSOffice suite, aka 2000/2003/2007 because in my company there's no possibility to use alternative ones, such as evolution and so on .
I'll try to get started with wine kickstart for outlook deploying.
 
+1

WINE + MS Office works OK.

Just make an icon link to exe file on your desktop or menu to speed up a little openning Office apps.
As I remembe, you need to use /\ in folder names (eg. ...wine /windows/Program/\Files/Office/...).
 
Sorry, no idea (I don't use it)

Just try it. Install WINE & MS Office, if it works great, if not simply remove .wine folder from your home dir and uninstall WINE ;)
 
@klanger
what msoffice version did you run ? I thought to install 2007, or at least 2003, 2010 would be super! :)
 
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