Generally, all computer users must well be known about MICROSOFT OFFICE and all users might have used it atleast once. This software is generally used in WINDOWS systems. But by following the below given procedure, you can install and use MICROSOFT OFFICE in UBUNTU too :) Isn't this nice?
Generally, UBUNTU/LINUX users use OPEN OFFICE for this purpose, but many will be dealt with MICROSOFT OFFICE inWINDOWS and its little difficult for them to jump suddenly to OPEN OFFICE of UBUNTU. For such people, here is a nice trick so that they can use MS OFFICE in UBUNTU :)
Steps are as follows :--
- Go to Application-->Ubuntu Software Center. Then in search box, type "Wine Microsoft Windows Compatibility layer" and then click on install.
- Now you have to install a plugin called “Wine Tricks”. So open Terminal and type wget www.kegal.com/wine/winetricks.
- Type sh winetricks msxml13 dotnet20 gdiplus riched20 riched30 vcrun2005sp in terminal.
- Open terminal and type gksu gedit /usr/share/applications/wine.desktop. Now a text document should appear. Now look for the code “xec=cautious-launcher %f wine start /unix” and delete it and replace it with “ Exec=wine start /unix %f ”
- Now restart your computer. You can proceed without restarting, this just makes sure that changes do take affect.
- You have to configure WINE now. So go to Applications > Wine>Configure Wine.
- Under Windows Settings, select “Windows XP”. click apply and close the window.
- Now right click on setup.exe file of MICROSOFT OFFICE and select "Open with Wine" option.
- Now Office gets installed in your UBUNTU system and when it asks for Windows updates, select No/never option.
Thanks for reading the post and for any help, please do comment in comment box or you can mail me to srikanth.gundaz@gmail.com :)
