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Install WINE 1.0 or greater for this you need to download latest wine from here or if you are using Hardy you can install it from ubuntu repos using the following comamnd.

sudo aptitude install wine

After wine has been installed -

Put your MS office 2003 cd in your drive and in terminal type following:

cd /media/cdrom0

wine autorun.exe

And follow instructions as if you were installing it on windows.

Now on your desktop right click –>Create launcher for each below

Create launchers for each application:

in Command field type this

For excel

env WINEPREFIX=”/home/your_username/.wine” wine “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE”

For Word

env WINEPREFIX=”/home/your_username/.wine” wine “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE”

For powerpoint

env WINEPREFIX=”/home/your_username/.wine” wine “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\POWERPNT.EXE”

For Access

env WINEPREFIX=”/home/your_username/.wine” wine “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\MSACCESS.EXE”

You are almost done.

Now if you are having problem running your macro then you need to install Dcom98.

Dcom98 contains three dlls from Windows 98: ole32, oleaut32, and rpcrt4. Use winetricks to install it:

In terminal type:

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

sh winetricks dcom98

The winetricks script will set to override globally, and if you have any other programs installed in that wineprefix it may affect them. If that happens, you can fix it through winecfg.

That’s it Now you have running MS OFFICE 2003 on your ubuntu.