I am trying to get MS Office 2007 32-bit working in linux again. This is the second time I have tried this with the exact same results. It installs beautifully, without a problem. Everything appears to work perfectly until you attempt to load or save. A Window pops up and it says it's configuring MS Office. True to windows it really doesn't give me any other insight in to what it is trying to do. If I wait long enough, maybe 5 or 10 minutes it will eventually produce a dialog box telling me it was unable to save.
I'm pretty sure this has to be a common problem since this is the exact same program on a very different platform. Has anyone ever resolved this?

Please. Open Office is not an option. Do not suggest this as a solution. It has been my solution for the past 5 years, and not a good one.

Did you check the Wine website??
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...sion&iId=12811

Specifically, note bug #29788.
Then install Libreoffice, use Abiword, Gnumeric, Kpresenter, or any one of MANY applications that are natively available for Linux, and do the same things that MS Office does. Emulators are always going to run slower, and are prone to such problems.

What problems do you have with Openoffice? What doesn't it do that MS Office does? Perhaps someone here has a solution.

Do you really need mso2007?

IMHO, both ms access and ms outlouk are unusable with Wine + Office2007.
Everything else should work if you only install what works.
Try Play On Linux if you need an easy gui for Wine.

http://www.playonlinux.com/en/
It will also auto-install some needed DLLs and fonts.

MS Office 2003 runs far better if that's option as well...

Thanks for the link. Somehow I never stumbled across this page. This should be a huge help. I'll let you know what I figure out.

I need 2007 or 2010, but according to my experience and wine's application database. 2010 is even more problematic. 2007 installed without any complaints. I don't really need outlook on my home machine and I haven't used access in years. The main thing I need is excel and power point. Word would be nice too.

The main reason I cannot reliably work with software other than Microsoft because Eventually everything I do ends up being viewed by microsoft. Spending 5 hours on a spreadsheet in in libre office/open office/gnumeric only to find out when I load the file in MS office I have to redo the whole thing because everything is screwed up. The same is true in the other direction and I have tried multiple document formats with no Luck. The second problem is that the functionality of the spreadsheets are a little lacking. I need to be able to run macro's with VB script. I need to be able to compute iterative calculations. I would be love to be able to stick with one of the opensource suites. Besides calc, the writer is fine for personal use. but as soon as I have to send it to a windows machine, basically anything other than straight text gets jacked up. Like I said, I have tried for years and lost hundreds of hours having to redoing work. I refuse to switch back to windows but I need Office to work.

That is possibly something you don't want to hear, but if you really have a need for Windows software the best solution is always to run it on Windows.

Your're right. I don't want to hear that

well if it's just office that you need to run, than perhaps running it in windows is the best option, especially since unless you custom built your computer you should have an OEM license of windows stuck to your computer, you could install virtualbox and create a small virtual machine with windows to run Office.

I cordially invite you to consider OpenOffice. Quite frankly, with regard to Word, Excel and so-forth, I find that it does everything that I need to do, and does them splendidly ... although it does not do things like Access. (It's got Oracle and now Apache behind it, so it's serious stuff.)

However: to echo the sentiment, "if you need to run a 'killer app,' and it requires this-or-that OS, buy that OS, and run it ... in a virtual machine, of course." (Hey, Microsoft Windows don't look too bad, in a window!)

But even if not: hardware is cheap, and your forehead and your hair-follicles (especially the latter if you have any left ...) are not.

If you use the Seamless Mode of Virtualbox you don't even have to look at Windows.

Tried it. running Office through Vbox is really slow. Also, installing windows on the same hard drive as a previously installed installation is.... actually I'm not sure if it's possible.
Not that I really want to do that anyway.