Wine – Fix Installation Problem of MS Office 2013

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I try to install MS office 2013 in Ubuntu 12.10 using Wine. But It says:

error: newer windows version needed.

How Can I fix this error.

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Office 2013, won't be running on older operating systems like Windows XP and Vista, is only compatible with Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012.

Open a terminal, type winecfg, and then select windows 7 from the drop down at the bottom of the window. If that doesn't work I suggest to look at this post :

Microsoft Office 2013 under wine.

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Ubuntu – Fonts look bad in Microsoft Office using Wine

This does have to do with the anti-aliasing in Windows. It expects you to have it on in the OS, so they don't bother re-creating anti-aliasing in the Office Suite. If you disabled the anti-aliasing in Windows, it would look the same.

If wine's own font smoothing does not work, then I don't think it will. Here's a test to make sure its just the display that's wrong. Print something...does it look okay?

Maybe post a complaint on WineHQ under the Microsoft Office information; they may be able to help you more (and possibly fix the problem in their next update).

I have seen this problem too (on my own computer, I have Office installed as well). I learned to ignore it. Also try zooming in on the text to make it look a little better. Setting the view to page-width may help a lot.

wine – Black Screen Issue in Office 2013 Using Wine 2.0

It is a bug on DirectX. See i.e. this testing on winehq. Since Wine 3.0 DirectX 11 can work around this. If you are on lower wine versions, a simple solution is to add a registry entry:

REGFILE=$(mktemp --tmpdir MaxVersionGLXXX.reg)
cat > "$REGFILE" <<_EOF_
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D]
"MaxVersionGL"=dword:00030002
_EOF_

wine regedit "$REGFILE"

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