Microsoft Office 2007

Install

Note: To work with JPG images (i.e. in PowerPoint) install lib32-lcsm.

The following has been reported to work, using wine-1.5.0. See these forum posts for details:

• https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=138082
• https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=86436

Or have a look at the install instructions on Wine's Application Database

• http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=4992

Warning: You should never run Wine commands as root. Only run Wine as your user.

To get office 2007 working, install bin32-wine, winetricks. This is necessary if you are running a x64 Arch, but are using a 32bit Office installer

# pacman -s bin32-wine winetricks

Then run:

$ WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/win32 winecfg

A pop up will appear, set it to Windows XP, then run: (this download is ~1gb so be prepared)

$ WINEPREFIX=~/win32 winetricks msxml3  gdiplus riched20 riched30 vcrun2005sp1 allfonts

Mount the installation image, then run:

$ WINEPREFIX=~/win32 wine /path/to/office2007image/setup.exe

To actually use any of the executables you must cd to the directory. IE:

$ cd ~/win32/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12
$ WINEPREFIX=~/win32 wine ./EXCEL.EXE

You could set WINEPREFIX in your .bash_profile, or make 32bit wine your default (then you only have to do WINEARCH=win32 winecfg). Two reported issues are accidentally emulating 64bit Windows instead of 32 bit and that the programs hang if you don't cd into the directory, probably because the dlls are linked with the local directory.

Office 2007 SP3

To upgrade to Service Pack 3

Download from: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27838

Install with:

WINEPREFIX=~/win32 wine office2007sp3-kb2526086-fullfile-en-us.exe

Office 2007 Fonts

To install the Office 2007 Fonts, (this probably isn't necessary)

First download ttf-office-2007-fonts from the AUR

Change to the directory you will be building the package, then run

$ cabextract --filter *.TTF /path/to/office2007image/Enterprise.WW/EnterWW.cab

Then proceed to install the package as usual.

See MS Fonts for more details

Winetricks

The droid font downloader in winetricks is broken. The URL is part of the google git project. Either the maintainer of winetricks will update or kernel.org will change. You can elect to remove the droid font install from the winetricks script.

sudo nano -w /usr/bin/winetricks

Search for: do_droid You should see this:

do_droid() {
    w_download ${DROID_URL}$1';hb=HEAD'   $3  $1
    w_try cp -f "$W_CACHE"/droid/$1 "$W_FONTSDIR_UNIX"
    w_register_font $1 "$2"
}

load_droid()
{
    # See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_(font)
    DROID_URL='http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=blob_plain;f=data/fonts/'
    do_droid DroidSans-Bold.ttf        "Droid Sans Bold"         560e4bcafdebaf29645fbf92633a2ae0d2f9801f
    do_droid DroidSansFallback.ttf     "Droid Sans Fallback"     64de2fde75868ab8d4c6714add08c8f08b3fae1e
    do_droid DroidSansJapanese.ttf     "Droid Sans Japanese"     b3a248c11692aa88a30eb25df425b8910fe05dc5
    do_droid DroidSansMono.ttf         "Droid Sans Mono"         133fb6cf26ea073b456fb557b94ce8c46143b117
    do_droid DroidSans.ttf             "Droid Sans"              62f2841f61e4be66a0303cd1567ed2d300b4e31c
    do_droid DroidSerif-BoldItalic.ttf "Droid Serif Bold Italic" b7f2d37c3a062be671774ff52f4fd95cbef813ce
    do_droid DroidSerif-Bold.ttf       "Droid Serif Bold"        294fa99ceaf6077ab633b5a7c7db761e2f76cf8c
    do_droid DroidSerif-Italic.ttf     "Droid Serif Italic"      bdd8aad5e6ac546d11e7378bdfabeac7ccbdadfc
    do_droid DroidSerif-Regular.ttf    "Droid Serif"             805c5f975e02f488fa1dd1dd0d44ed4f93b0fab4
}

Comment it out with:

#do_droid() {
#    w_download ${DROID_URL}$1';hb=HEAD'   $3  $1
#    w_try cp -f "$W_CACHE"/droid/$1 "$W_FONTSDIR_UNIX"
#    w_register_font $1 "$2"
#}

#load_droid()
#{
#    # See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_(font)
#    DROID_URL='http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=blob_plain;f=data/fonts/'
#
#    do_droid DroidSans-Bold.ttf        "Droid Sans Bold"         560e4bcafdebaf29645fbf92633a2ae0d2f9801f
#    do_droid DroidSansFallback.ttf     "Droid Sans Fallback"     64de2fde75868ab8d4c6714add08c8f08b3fae1e
#    do_droid DroidSansJapanese.ttf     "Droid Sans Japanese"     b3a248c11692aa88a30eb25df425b8910fe05dc5
#    do_droid DroidSansMono.ttf         "Droid Sans Mono"         133fb6cf26ea073b456fb557b94ce8c46143b117
#    do_droid DroidSans.ttf             "Droid Sans"              62f2841f61e4be66a0303cd1567ed2d300b4e31c
#    do_droid DroidSerif-BoldItalic.ttf "Droid Serif Bold Italic" b7f2d37c3a062be671774ff52f4fd95cbef813ce
#    do_droid DroidSerif-Bold.ttf       "Droid Serif Bold"        294fa99ceaf6077ab633b5a7c7db761e2f76cf8c
#    do_droid DroidSerif-Italic.ttf     "Droid Serif Italic"      bdd8aad5e6ac546d11e7378bdfabeac7ccbdadfc
#    do_droid DroidSerif-Regular.ttf    "Droid Serif"             805c5f975e02f488fa1dd1dd0d44ed4f93b0fab4
#}

Save then execute the command from the installation section.