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[kdemeoz]

1) Thank you very much for "taking over" my post and enriching it so much!

3) When I try to set up a new Winetricks for office I get the message that "Mono" is missing. There is a button to download it, but it also says to better use the version that comes with the distro.

4) I do not have an office ISO, but only one complete .exe installation. How to handle that?

Hi benit

1) Oops, yes, i am guilty as charged - sorry! It's just that Rocky's info really excited me  

3) I tested this method in two Maui VMs before i was willing to do it in my "real" Maui. Maybe my memory is now wrong [if so, maybe Rocky might correct me], but i also was unsure about Mono, so i think i just let Wine do the download & install Mono in one VM, whilst in the other i skipped that step [& deliberately did NOT later attempt to find Mono myself in Synaptic]. My objective was to discover if Office 2010 would still correctly work in the created WinePrefix either way, so that if it did, i would know that for my "real" Maui i could safely ignore the Mono steps. As best i recall, Office seemed happy both ways. 

4) I also do not have the ISO, but "only" my original MS DVD. I also have the MS Office 2010 sp2 exe file that i downloaded 300 years ago. With Rocky's help, these are the steps i took:

Code:

sudo apt-get install wine1.8

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-office2010 WINEARCH='win32' winecfg

sudo apt-get install winbind winetricks

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-office2010 WINEARCH='win32' winetricks corefonts msxml6

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-office2010 WINEARCH='win32' wine /media/kdemeoz/OFFICE14/setup.exe
this was with the Office 2010 installation dvd in the drive, of course.

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-office2010 WINEARCH='win32' winecfg
switch to tab Libraries and set riched20.dll to Native

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-office2010 WINEARCH='win32' wine officesp2010-kb2687455-fullfile-x86-en-us.exe
In Dolphin, navigate to /Seagate/4. Software/z. Windows pgms/Microsoft/Office Professional Plus 2010/sp2 ... & therein launch Konsole ... in which run the above command
this installs Service Pack 2.

To reset the 30-day Activation grace period [5x max; run in Konsole per preceding]:
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-office2010 WINEARCH='win32' wine OSPPREARM.EXE

I hope it works for you!! I just love it. 

PS - As per a separate thread of Rocky's, i later also upgraded to Wine 2.0, & all the above is still good. 
https://forums.mauilinux.org/showthread....light=wine