microsoft-officewine
Some interest in Excel 2003, but primarily in Excel 2007. Wondering if advanced features, such as macros can be made to work flawlessly. Or if there are any major issues I should know about.
Using an alternative open source native program is unfortunately out of the question due to complex macro/VBA heavy spreadsheets.
The answer is yes. In fact the other two are also based on Wine.
Considering just Wine, see this question. But later versions of MSOffice, 2007 and 2010, are much easier to install in Wine than older versions like 2003 and XP. For 2007 and later see my other answer. (Personally, I was not able to install msoffice xp or 2003 in Wine, although I deem it possible.).
Playonlinux has the advantage of offering the possibility of using different versions of Wine for different programs or program versions. See this answer for more details on installing msoffice 2007.
CrossOver greatly facilitates the installation of MSOffice, even of different versions that could be used in parallel, new and old. (I was able to install very easily msofficexp.) This is a very useful and recommendable application, especially for the users who want the comfort and are ready to pay for it.
(To make things even smoother, you can improve appearance of the programs installed in this way; for Wine and playonlinux, look here; for crossover, here.)
Related answer here.
I've figured out with a wine GUI called Playonlinux. WORKS FOR ANY VERSION OF UBUNTU
It comes with the addequate configuration for multiple applications and games, you have to have only the installer and then follow the program instructions.
For installing it run the following commands:
To add the repository that contains the program
wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key
sudo apt-key add Release.key
sudo apt-add-repository 'https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/'
sudo apt-get update
And to install it:
sudo apt-get install playonlinux
Then I installed Microsoft Office Pack 2010 following steps below:
winbind dependency with sudo apt-get install winbindsudo apt-get install winetricksCreate empty wine-prefix and install MSO 2007 here with:
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.local/share/wineprefixes/office2007pro \
winetricks office2007pro
Wait setup to finish.
Best Answer
Excel 2007 should work well with some adjustments.
Excel 2003 is unlikely to work properly.
Always look on the wine application database to find out how well a program can be run in wine.