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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.

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Microsoft is coming out with a feature similar to this in Windows Vista. It's already available on the Linux platform.

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Windows has some built-in options for customizing the look and feel of the GUI environment, but Linux offers a lot more -- without you having to download additional tools.

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If you're running Windows, chances are you only have the default Windows desktop backgrounds. If you have an OEM edition of Windows, you may have gotten a few extra backgrounds tossed in, including some with the OEM logo.

Kubuntu has a way to change the desktop image, allowing you to specify that you want to use a file on your computer, on the Internet, or allows you to download and install from a specific website that's built in. The site offers hundreds of images and phots from around the world. The best thing is that it's all free, just like the operating system!

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A friend insists that Linux will not run on "computers made to run Windows," and insists with even more passion that laptops cannot run Linux, so I took shots of my screen (these are cropped to elminate the body keyboard and such) using a digital camera to show him the error of his thinking. Screenshots could be taken on "a computer designed to run Linux," he says, so this is his proof.