Thank you for guiding me to Winetricks to install dcom98. It did the trick. I followed http://www.wine-reviews.net/microsoft/running-ms-office-97-under-linux-with-wine.html up to the point where I needed to set the registry and I just don't understand what to type in as a key. As I said before I don't know anything about the registry so if you could read the instructions at the referenced web site and see if you can make sense of them I would appreciate it. Anyway I skipped setting the registry and installed myy cd. The installation had no errors. i started up Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Binder, Access, and Photo Editor. They all started ok and seemed to work, although I didn't really use them--even Access. My only disappointment was Outlook, which i really wanted to use in order to remain compatible with my older systems. Outlook started up and flashed its startup screen but then just disappeared. As a note of interest a while back I tried the trial copy of Crossover and Outlook ran fine there. Were you able to bring up Outlook when you installed Office 97? I started Outlook from the Terminal and got the following: It looks like I had a page fault but I don't know why. Any thoughts would be appreciated. ralph@ralph-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office$ wine Outlook.exe fixme:mapi:MAPIInitialize ((nil)) Stub fixme:mapi:MAPIAdminProfiles (0, 0x32fc7c): stub fixme:mapi:MAPIInitialize ((nil)) Stub fixme:mapi:MAPIAdminProfiles (0, 0x33fd54): stub fixme:mapi:MAPIUninitialize Stub fixme:mapi:MAPILogonEx (0x00050086 (null) (nil) 0x00001069 0x32fa44) Stub wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address 0x6e03d42f (thread 0027), starting debugger... Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x6e03d42f). err:dbghelp:pe_load_dbg_file -Unable to peruse .DBG file "outllib.dbg" ("\x12") Register dump: CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b EIP:6e03d42f ESP:0032f9f8 EBP:0032fa00 EFLAGS:00210246( - 00 -RIZP1) EAX:00000000 EBX:00000000 ECX:0032fa2c EDX:0000004a ESI:00443730 EDI:00050086 Stack dump: 0x0032f9f8: 6e0368b0 0032fa2c 0032fa14 6e031e85 0x0032fa08: 00000000 6e0368b0 0032fa2c 0032fa30 0x0032fa18: 6dff47a5 00000000 00050086 00443730 0x0032fa28: 00443730 00000000 0032fa4c 6dff470a 0x0032fa38: 00000000 00050086 00443730 00000000 0x0032fa48: 00000000 0032fba8 6dff3f45 00050086 Backtrace: =>1 0x6e03d42f in outllib (+0x4d42f) (0x0032fa00) 2 0x6e031e85 in outllib (+0x41e85) (0x0032fa14) 3 0x6dff47a5 in outllib (+0x47a5) (0x0032fa30) 4 0x6dff470a in outllib (+0x470a) (0x0032fa4c) 5 0x6dff3f45 in outllib (+0x3f45) (0x0032fba8) 6 0x6e001810 in outllib (+0x11810) (0x0032fc04) 7 0x6e001862 in outllib (+0x11862) (0x0032fc20) 8 0x6e00276d in outllib (+0x1276d) (0x0032fc3c) 9 0x6dff3ae6 in outllib (+0x3ae6) (0x0032fc68) 10 0x6dffe3df in outllib (+0xe3df) (0x0032fd04) 11 0x6dffdf3a in outllib (+0xdf3a) (0x0032fe60) err:dbghelp:pe_load_dbg_file -Unable to peruse .DBG file "outlook.dbg" ("") 12 0x300017d9 in outlook (+0x17d9) (0x0032ff08) 13 0x7b8776a7 in kernel32 (+0x576a7) (0x0032ffe8) 0x6e03d42f: movl 0x0(%eax),%ecx Modules: Module Address Debug info Name (62 modules) PE 10200000-10255000 Deferred msvcrt40 PE 30000000-30009000 Export outlook PE 306c0000-30a65000 Deferred mso97 PE 65340000-653d2000 Deferred oleaut32 PE 65f00000-65fc2000 Deferred ole32 PE 6dff0000-6e429000 Export outllib PE 6e430000-6e43f000 Deferred outlrpc PE 70100000-70153000 Deferred rpcrt4 ELF 7b800000-7b931000 Export kernel32<elf> \-PE 7b820000-7b931000 \ kernel32 ELF 7bc00000-7bca5000 Deferred ntdll<elf> \-PE 7bc10000-7bca5000 \ ntdll ELF 7bf00000-7bf03000 Deferred <wine-loader> ELF 7e686000-7e6b9000 Deferred uxtheme<elf> \-PE 7e690000-7e6b9000 \ uxtheme ELF 7e6b9000-7e6c2000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1 ELF 7e6c2000-7e6c7000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3 ELF 7e6c7000-7e6ca000 Deferred libxcomposite.so.1 ELF 7e6ca000-7e6d0000 Deferred libxrandr.so.2 ELF 7e6d0000-7e6d8000 Deferred libxrender.so.1 ELF 7e6d8000-7e6dd000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1 ELF 7e6dd000-7e6e0000 Deferred libxinerama.so.1 ELF 7e6e0000-7e700000 Deferred imm32<elf> \-PE 7e6f0000-7e700000 \ imm32 ELF 7e700000-7e705000 Deferred libxdmcp.so.6 ELF 7e705000-7e71d000 Deferred libxcb.so.1 ELF 7e71d000-7e804000 Deferred libx11.so.6 ELF 7e804000-7e812000 Deferred libxext.so.6 ELF 7e812000-7e82a000 Deferred libice.so.6 ELF 7e82a000-7e832000 Deferred libsm.so.6 ELF 7e840000-7e8d7000 Deferred winex11<elf> \-PE 7e850000-7e8d7000 \ winex11 ELF 7e91b000-7e93c000 Deferred libexpat.so.1 ELF 7e93c000-7e966000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1 ELF 7e966000-7e97b000 Deferred libz.so.1 ELF 7e97b000-7e9eb000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6 ELF 7e9eb000-7e9ed000 Deferred libxcb-xlib.so.0 ELF 7e9ed000-7e9f0000 Deferred libxau.so.6 ELF 7e9f9000-7eab9000 Deferred comctl32<elf> \-PE 7ea00000-7eab9000 \ comctl32 ELF 7eab9000-7ebce000 Deferred shell32<elf> \-PE 7ead0000-7ebce000 \ shell32 ELF 7ebce000-7ec27000 Deferred shlwapi<elf> \-PE 7ebe0000-7ec27000 \ shlwapi ELF 7ec27000-7ec49000 Deferred mapi32<elf> \-PE 7ec30000-7ec49000 \ mapi32 ELF 7ec49000-7ed90000 Deferred user32<elf> \-PE 7ec60000-7ed90000 \ user32 ELF 7ed90000-7ede2000 Deferred advapi32<elf> \-PE 7eda0000-7ede2000 \ advapi32 ELF 7ede2000-7ee80000 Deferred gdi32<elf> \-PE 7edf0000-7ee80000 \ gdi32 ELF 7efa0000-7efab000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2 ELF 7efab000-7efb5000 Deferred libnss_nis.so.2 ELF 7efb5000-7efcd000 Deferred libnsl.so.1 ELF 7efcd000-7eff2000 Deferred libm.so.6 ELF 7eff7000-7f000000 Deferred libnss_compat.so.2 ELF b7d12000-b7d16000 Deferred libdl.so.2 ELF b7d16000-b7e65000 Deferred libc.so.6 ELF b7e66000-b7e7e000 Deferred libpthread.so.0 ELF b7e8c000-b7fc2000 Deferred libwine.so.1 ELF b7fc4000-b7fe0000 Deferred ld-linux.so.2 Threads: process tid prio (all id:s are in hex) 00000008 00000009 0 0000000c 00000012 0 0000000e 0 0000000d 0 0000000f 00000015 0 00000014 0 00000011 0 00000010 0 00000016 00000017 0 00000026 (D) C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Outlook.exe 00000027 0 <== Backtrace: =>1 0x6e03d42f in outllib (+0x4d42f) (0x0032fa00) 2 0x6e031e85 in outllib (+0x41e85) (0x0032fa14) 3 0x6dff47a5 in outllib (+0x47a5) (0x0032fa30) 4 0x6dff470a in outllib (+0x470a) (0x0032fa4c) 5 0x6dff3f45 in outllib (+0x3f45) (0x0032fba8) 6 0x6e001810 in outllib (+0x11810) (0x0032fc04) 7 0x6e001862 in outllib (+0x11862) (0x0032fc20) 8 0x6e00276d in outllib (+0x1276d) (0x0032fc3c) 9 0x6dff3ae6 in outllib (+0x3ae6) (0x0032fc68) 10 0x6dffe3df in outllib (+0xe3df) (0x0032fd04) 11 0x6dffdf3a in outllib (+0xdf3a) (0x0032fe60) 12 0x300017d9 in outlook (+0x17d9) (0x0032ff08) 13 0x7b8776a7 in kernel32 (+0x576a7) (0x0032ffe8) ralph@ralph-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office$ Thanks Ralph
