Any personal experience getting M$ Office 2007 working in Linux?

[BarkingGhostar]

I was thinking about trying to get Microsoft Office 2007 (the last version I bought) installed and running in Linux Mint. I read one particular guide a while back saying the typical install with Wine doesn't work, or not very well, but a different approach was needed. Just wondered if any of you tried to install M$ Office.

 

[mikeymikec]

I was thinking about trying to get Microsoft Office 2007 (the last version I bought) installed and running in Linux Mint. I read one particular guide a while back saying the typical install with Wine doesn't work, or not very well, but a different approach was needed. Just wondered if any of you tried to install M$ Office.

I'd try it on a VM for you if I wasn't concerned about screwing up my product activation.

I got Access 2000 working on Wine recently with a VM but the text rendering was a little odd. I have a couple of Windows VMs for various purposes so I run MSO on the rare occasion I need it, and use LibreOffice for my everyday work.

 

[mxnerd]

Maybe PlayOnLinux can help. Never tried it.

https://www.playonlinux.com/en/

 

[Red Squirrel]

Libre Office should be compatible with that format if that's all you're looking for. But if you need to run it specifically a VM might be the easiest, not aware of a more native way. A bit more of a pain though as you basically are managing two OSes and not exactly getting away from Windows, and have to find a way to share files to the VM. (Samba, NFS etc).