Make sure you have done the minimum preparations. We start with starting up "Configure Wine" and you will see the following. Make sure that your Wine settings are the same.
You can easily use "Add application" and just type in the name you want to add. It's not necessary to search for the EXE file. Make sure that the Windows version is Windows XP. That's all!For the people with a dual boot setup like me, you can change the default "My Documents" location in the "Desktop Integration" tab to your "documents directory" on the Windows partition.
Now we are going to install the software. Because it's your first time MS Office installation on your computer, you don't have to delete old MS data to make the installer work. Ubuntu tries to use an "the Archive Manager" to open EXE files. We don't want this, so we are going to change this first. The easiest way to do this, is going to the properties of an EXE file (right mouse click -> Properties) and change the following so it will look like this:
After you have changed these settings, you can just double click the setup.exe file and install Office like you always have done with Windows!Keep in mind that Wine is still in development, even after version 1.0. This means that not ever Office program is working. Word and Excel works, but expect to experience problem with the other Office programs like Outlook. When there is a fix, I will put the instructions in this blog. Read further for instructions how to run PowerPoint.
For PowerPoint, you have to change a dll setting, not to difficult. First you add powerpnt.exe in the "Application" tab like you did with the setup.exe. Make sure that powerpnt.exe is highlighted. Now we go to the "Libraries" tab and make sure you have the same setting for the riched20.dll as shown on the screenshot:
After this, you can normally startup PowerPoint.
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