The wine project is very impressive. Old Office 2007 DVD, so why not? Word has not changed much in 20 years. Had to do some cleaning up first.
I used PlayOnLinux but chose manual install and pointed it to the setup.exe file on the DVD, and specified 32-bit to matchthe Office version (and made sure 32-bit wine was installed).
Installer ran succeasfully; clicked Close.
PlayOnLinux asked about shortcuts to make. Chose Winword then Excel and PPT; they appeared in the PlayOnLinux dialog.
The software wants to be activated… but the software is very old! I chose over internet, and it seemed to work. ??? (Or more likely just did not complain.)
Cannot sign up to Microsoft update service, of course.
But seems ok. Works basically seamlessly.
I find I can print from Word 2007 to any of the printers installed via CUPS — for example, my Apple ImageWriter II.
So I can run Microsoft Word from 2007 on Linux from 2022 and print seamlessly to an Apple printer from 1986. Now that’s convergence!
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