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I’ve seen people asking how to install windows office 365 using wine. The easiest way I’ve found is to use crossover which is a wine based paid application with a free trial that is made by wine developers. I wrote up a guide if it’s helpful for anyone.
The overall steps are to install crossover, and then install office using the 365 .exe installer from microsoft. Again this is the full featured windows version of office. My impression of it is it works but it can be finicky here and there and there is no real guarantee it will work perfectly unless microsoft endorses it.
Crossover is highly recommend since it automated a lot of the annoying configuration and setup with wine. It is a paid solution (but you can fully use it to see if it works with a free trial). With pure wine it may be a lot of work for little gain.
This guide is written for subscription based microsoft office 365. However, you may have luck with other versions, and the instructions should still work (just replace office 365 with your version whenever this guide says it).
In short:
- Download crossover 20 from codeweavers. You need to enter some contact info, but you could use an alias.
- Download the office 365 .exe installer using a valid office 365 subscription (get it from office.com, you will need an browser extension to switch your user agent to windows otherwise the download button won’t be there at all). You could also try one of the annual versions (eg office 2016) but I haven’t tried that myself, if you do the remaining steps it should still be similar.
- In crossover 20 search for office 365 and follow the steps, all you need to manually do is give it the .exe you got earlier.
- Agree to whatever is prompted and then finish off the installation
- Start word/excel/powerpoint up (at this point they should all appear along with your other apps just like you’d expect). You can also start it from crossover itself.
- Try to sign in to office with your licensed account so word/excel/powerpoint doesn’t lock you out after a few days. It can be finicky, if it doesn’t work try restarting the app and trying again. Do make sure your password is being entered properly, I found copy paste to not be working in that field correctly.
If anyone has any corrections or improvements for this guide feel free to comment and I’ll edit the post.
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