Maybe you all considered this, but... Why don't you use Open Office ? I think you can even use those vba macro's (I must admit I don't really no what those are but I've seen some info on it in the configuration tool It works great, it looks a bit like Excel-like and it have Linux binaries so it 'll run better than Excel (even though the loading time when first loading the prob is a bit long) --- Stephane Boireau <steph2811@libertysurf.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to get M$Excel working with Wine? > > I use Mandrake 9.1 with wine-20030115-4mdk and > M$Excel97 SR1 > > I always get an error about MSCREATE.DIR when I > launch Excel. > > Console messages are: > [steph@DeepGlue steph]$ wine /mnt/windows/Program\ > Files/Microsoft\ > Office/Office/excel.exe > fixme:ole:CoRegisterMessageFilter stub > Created not existing system directory 'C:\My > Documents' > file_set_error: Permission denied > fixme:ntdll:RtlNtStatusToDosError no mapping for > 0001869f > XIO: fatal IO error 0 (Success) on X server ":0.0" > after 5949 requests (5949 known processed) > with 0 events remaining. > [steph@DeepGlue steph]$ > [steph@DeepGlue steph]$ > > Should I try CrossOver plugin? > > Are vba macro OK with it? > > Thank you very much. > -- > Stephane > > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
