Presuming in the first sentence you meant "MS Word and Excel", I'll say "Good Luck." As an earlier reply here noted, Microsoft has booby-trapped its own programs to refuse to run except under a Microsoft-branded OS. You might want to look into a Linux-based alternative like OpenOffice.org. John Freed dan wrote: > hello all, > > I have been trying to run MS Windows and Excel under wine. They are > about the only two remaining dependent Windoz apps > > The error they produce relates to write permissions. However that does > not seem to be the root issue. Other apps, such as Notepad, seem to be > able to write without issue. > > What is currently required in way of wine config to satisfy Word and Excel? > > Thanks in advance, > Dan >
