Virtual Internet Office » Macros http://www.vio-com.com Living and working in a virtual world... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:33:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Should I use WINE or a Virtual Box in Linux (Ubuntu) for MS Office 2007? http://www.vio-com.com/2009/08/should-i-use-wine-or-a-virtual-box-in-linux-ubuntu-for-ms-office-2007/ http://www.vio-com.com/2009/08/should-i-use-wine-or-a-virtual-box-in-linux-ubuntu-for-ms-office-2007/#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:06:07 +0000 viocom http://www.vio-com.com/2009/08/should-i-use-wine-or-a-virtual-box-in-linux-ubuntu-for-ms-office-2007/
[Please don't say that I can just use Open Office. I love everything Open Source but for work reasons I absolutely have to use Word 2007 etc. due to issues with docx files and macros that only work in Word that are work issued and have no OO equivalent.]
This one program is causing me to dual boot as I’m almost over my Linux learning curb and I really just want to abandon Windows forever. Is running it through WINE or a Virtual Box the best option in terms of simplicity and efficiency? Many thanks :)
Wubi?? I don’t want to run Ubuntu from within windows, quite the opposite… I’m already using 8.04. Trust me I’ve investigated the options and unless I devote several months of programming to create that one little addition to MS Word in OO (and my programming skills are nonexistant) I can’t get around the problem without using Word. Simple question: Is WINE or VB better for my situation?
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