On a 64-bit system it's tricky getting MS-Office 2007, which is 32-bit, to work under Wine. Here is what I did.

Basically I created a separate 32-bit wineprefix for MS-Office. (It's best to have a separate wineprefix for each software package so you can easily uninstall packages. Run 'winetricks' and install a couple of packages if you want to see how that works.)

(Note: I am running Linux Mint 15 Olivia, Cinnamon edition. YMMV.)

1. Create and configure the default (64-bit) wineprefix, in .wine. This can be done in any of the following ways:

• run winecfg
• run winetricks --gui
• Menu -> Wine -> Configure Wine

2. Create a separate wineprefix for MS-Office, in wineoffice, and install MS-Office into it. This is done by setting environment variables, so I opened a new Terminal and:

export WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/wineoffice
winecfg                   # creates and configures the new wineprefix
cd /media/jackson/OFFICE12 # the Office CD, previously inserted
wine ./setup.exe

When the 'Install / Customise' screet appears, choose 'Customise' and in the top 'drawer' (Microsoft Office), choose 'Run all from my computer' to make it install *everything*.

winecfg

Under 'Libraries' select 'riched20' and set it to 'Native (Windows). This makes all the apps in this wineprefix use the 'riched20' library that has been installed by MS-Office instead of the default wine version. If you don't do this, Powerpoint and some other things do not work.

3. There should now be lots of MS-Office apps in Menu -> Wine.

1. Make sure you're connected to the Internet.
2. Run Menu -> WIne -> Microsoft Word and follow the prompts to:
   1. Activate over the Internet
   2. Tell it you don't want to run Microsoft Update.

4. Go to microsoft.com and get the downloads for MS-Office 2007 Service Pack 3. Open a new Terminal and:

export WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/wineoffice
cd Downloads #or wherever you put the service pack file)
wine ./office2007sp3-kb2526086-fullfile-en-us.exe