I have read this on a web site re CodeWeavers CrossOver;

CrossOver Office is included with some desktop-Linux distributions such as the SUSE Desktop Linux products. If your GNU-Linux distribution does not come with Crossover Office, you can buy Crossover Office directly from CodeWeavers

I have SUSE 9.1 Personal but cannot find this? Is it something I need to obtain from somewhere or does it not come with Personal.

Thought I would try this as I am not getting much joy with Wine

You can get Crossover Office from www.codeweavers.com

I think it costs about $50 US, but if you NEED ms office or whatever it may well be worth the effort. There is a trial version, which works for 30 days.

On a side note, if you intend to install ms office, make sure you select not to install Clippy (office assistant), since it tends to cause problems

--Ian

msoffice 2000 works just fine under WINE. Also, Openoffice.org is almost flawless. I'd think twice before buying crossover.

I cannot get any ms office app to work under wine and found and downloaed a demo of crossover and the same is true.....cant get any ms office app to run.

errors ranges from not an installed user to missing dlls

are you sure you're doing office2k? xp and 03 both use MSI which is not well supported in WINE. 2K works dandy though.

I have them installed on W2K Pro and none of them work under wine or crossover

Office XP works fine in Crossover (I assume WINE as well, since crossover is based on wine but I am not sure). The only thing that doesn't work is the Office assistant, but no great loss there though.

If you install crossover, just run the set up program, and select Office XP from the menu and it should work...

--Ian

a tale of woe to be sure is my endless journey for which I take to make Crossover work!

I have installed the 30 trial of CrossOver

I run the Install Wizard to setup my existing installation of MS OfficeXP whereby I choose the .exe file to install, this is what I get.....

Excel='one of your object libraries (vbaen32.olb) is missng or damamged'
'Excel is not installed for current user, rerun setup'

Word='Word is not installed for current user, rerun setup'

Access='Unable to initialise Windows Registry, rerun setup'

Now I have logged onto my laptop in Linux as user paul, under Windows I log on using my works nt user domain name of pjh8. MS Office is installed on my hard disk.

Pray tell what am I doing wrong??

You have to install Office *into* Linux/Crossover, you cannot reuse an existing install on a Windows drive.