Microsoft Office 2013 on Linux Mint
Good evening to all. I am trying to install Office 2013 in Mint 18.1 but to no avail. I tried with wine 2 which I do not seem to manage to configure correctly and with Play on Linux. Any suggestions?
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https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManag...View+Developer Microsoft Office is for Windows...if you're using Mint, then you need to use Libreoffice. If you're not prepared to do so, then your next best option is to load Windows in a virtual machine/dual-boot/run Windows ONLY, and use whatever Microsoft products you'd care to use. |
Second LibreOffice. For what it's worth, I'm using LibreOffice on Mint 17.3 and am in the process of converting a 78-page booklet into an e-book. Multiple fonts, pagination, images, lines and arrows, tables, etc. Works for me.
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Virtualbox > Full install of Windows > Office 2013 or dual boot. Virtualbox route is the "I want it now" favored by some folks. Dual boot would be the hard route. Trying to install Office on LinuxMint...that "boomerang"? Throw it all you want, it isn't coming back.</opinion> |
When Wine-2.0 was announced earlier this week, one feature mentioned was the ability to run ms-office 2013. Perhaps installations instructions are available over at WineHQ?
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If you need MS office, then you need windows. In my opinion, unless you need the whole outlook + ms exchange sever (which a home user is not likely to need), then you probably don't need MS office. The only decent application in the office suite is Excel anyway - and if you need that for work/study, then, once again, you need windows (powerpoint is another piece of widely used corporate crap and same arguments...).
In most other cases libreoffice should do. |
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LibreOffice is perfectly fine for 99.9% of documents.
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On the compatibility question, it may be worth looking at OpenOffice. That probably has more users of the Windows version than of the Linux one, which may affect its ability to exchange files with MS Office. Of course, spreadsheets are a problem: I seem to remember Gnumeric is better for compatibility there.
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The MS office formats are xml rather than binary, which makes it simpler to support. docx, xlsx, etc are really just zip archive containers. opendocument format is also widely supported nowadays.
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Office 365 if you actually need MS Office.
LibreOffice or Google Docs if just need something similar. |
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Many years ago the legal profession, in the U.S., adopted ms-word. Two attorneys I know, who are both "power users" of ms-word, have said there are compatibility problems between different versions of ms-word and they have both said, in their opinions, mickeysoft does this on purpose in an effort to "encourage" people to buy the latest version of ms-word/office.
You can save a document as a .pdf file and send it along. At that point it doesn't matter what software was used to create the document. |
MS have historically changed their file formats between versions to hamper compatibility with other similar programmes, but I don't think this goes on much these days. The old word doc and xls formats were binary, whereas (as I have already pointed out) the newer formats are mostly plain text xml.
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Follow-up Inquiry: Installing MS Office 2003 in Linux Mint (17.3)
I understand and agree with all your collective statements in this thread about why this is a stupid idea, I should use MS Windows if I want to use MS Office, LibreOffice is just fine, etc. I LIKE LibreOffice. But I'm between a rock and a hard place.
I'm disabled & retired (w/no financial resources, living only on Social Security, etc.), no longer have a Windows PC and only have a Linux box because someone gave it to me. I can no longer work in my lucrative, 30-year career so to earn some extra income, I want to try being a general transcriptionist. Trouble is the only audio/visual player that has the features I need is incompatible with LibreOffice Writer. The AV software I need to use is Express Scribe, which runs fine using Wine. It allows you to redefine keyboard function keys for AV control - so you can keep your hands on the keyboard. Those f-key definitions will override -MS WORD's- while the AV file is playing so, again, you can keep your hands on the keyboard. Typing speed is paramount. But LibreOffice Writer isn't compatible with Express Scribe. (I've seen web pages for supposed Linux substitute software for Express Scribe but they don't work.) I can't afford another computer so IF I'm to earn money as a transcriptionist - and it seems like the only viable option right now - I NEED to have MS Office (I still have the 2003 CDs) running in my Linux Mint environment - as offensive as that is to some of you. I've found all sorts of web pages for how to install it there but no joy. I would REALLY appreciate some help here. |
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But you should pay for that Windows licence & possibly another licence for that ms-word and possibly another licence for that AV software etc...
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