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Show HN: Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization

97 points · 91 comments · tombert

rkagerer · 1789751083 · focus · HN ↗
That's ok, I still prefer Word 2003 to the bloated, web-wired, ribbon-infested garbage that came after.
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1. tombert · 1789751382 · focus · HN ↗
  Yeah, I think I mentioned it here a few months ago, but I got Office 97 working with Wine, and I was sort of flabbergasted at how usable it still is. It worked fine with my system's TrueType fonts, it does all the formatting I care about, and given that it's nearly 30 year old software it runs obscenely fast. If I weren't a grumpy die-hard CLI person I would probably still consider using it.
  All that said, there are a lot of people who want the absolute latest MS Office. I don't get it either.
2. mahboi · 1789753016 · focus · HN ↗
  I'm glad this is still a complaint. I used Office 2004 (same as 03) until 2013, when I absolutely couldn't anymore because of docx incompatibility. My wife still uses 07, sadly it's ribboned.
  1. creshal · 1789754655 · focus · HN ↗
    doc vs docx is whatever, what kills older offices for me is the 64k row/col limit in excel. That was only fixed with the ribboned versions. :(
  2. rkagerer · 1789773862 · focus · HN ↗
    Do you have the docx compatibility pack installed?
    mahboi · 1789870574 · focus · HN ↗
    They didn't have that for Mac. Oh and turns out Word '04 was Mac-only, '03 was the last Windows version without the ribbon.

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