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<p>The latest version of Wine (as of 2009-06-23: wine-1.1.24) fixes an important regression that makes it far far easier to install Microsoft Office 2007 on Wine. I personally never use any of the Office suite for anything except ensuring that the documents that I export from OpenOffice for Word users look acceptable and professional.</p>
<p>While the suggestions of the Wine website state that it is possible on 1.1.3 to just run the installer, on 1.1.24, there's a few tweaks that will make the process go smoothly.</p>
<p>First of all, ensure you have the latest version. In (K)Ubuntu you'll want to add the PPAs:</p>
<blockquote><p>
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main<br/><br />
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
</p></blockquote>
<p>and then add the correct GPG keys:</p>
<blockquote><p>sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com F9CB8DB0</p></blockquote>
<p>Obviously you'll then need to:</p>
<blockquote><p>
sudo apt-get update<br/><br />
sudo apt-get upgrade
</p></blockquote>
<p>When this is all done, go to a command prompt and type:</p>
<blockquote><p>winecfg</p></blockquote>
<p>In the resulting dialogue that appears, make sure the operating system is set to <strong>Windows Vista</strong>.</p>
<p>Now, browse to your CD drive and run Setup.exe on the Office 2007 disc. You could also do this in a command prompt; something like:</p>
<blockquote><p>
wine /media/cdrom0/Setup.exe
</p></blockquote>
<p>Go through the installation and all should be well!</p>
<p>Now, grab a copy of winetricks and install the necessary components (I always install components in this order as it seems to not prompt me to reboot):</p>
<blockquote><p>
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks <br/><br />
sh winetricks vcrun2005sp1<br/><br />
sh winetricks dotnet20<br/><br />
sh winetricks msxml3 gdiplus riched20 riched30
</p></blockquote>
<p>Finally, go back into <strong>winecfg</strong> and switch the operating system to <strong>Windows XP</strong>. Tada! It should all work!</p>