Office 2000 take 2 and finally sound for music...

Yeah, so I completely screwed up my Wine Office 2000 installation by trying to install Dreamweaver 2 through Wine. I found some crazy post on the ubuntu forums which had me copying whole Windows system folders from my XP installation to my Linux one...which (surprise, surprise!) killed my ability to use Office 2000 through wine. Brilliant, I am, brilliant.

I finally fixed everything by completely uninstalling wine, eSword, the internet explorer dealio which was recommended by the guide I used to install Office 2000, and the dreameweaver attmept I had made. After that, as well as another update to the wine program, I redid everything (up to Dreamweaver) and now Office 2000 works like a charm!

I also figured out a little bit of my sound problem. The issue was that I was hearing the ubuntu login sound whenever I started up my computer, but then could get no sound out of any of the media players (music or DVD). I found the sound settings and played around with them for a bit. I about scared myself out of my pants with the test tone when I got it right - didn't realize my volume was that loud...

So I can now play music - but still no sound for DVDs, no matter which player I use. I'm hoping it's not a codec setting or something. But when I do the test sound in the ubuntu sound settings menu, I get the tone for the 'movies' category, but when I'm playing a movie, no sound. I'll let ya know when I figure this one out.

Also...last but not least....fun with my printer. I thought ubuntu had automatically installed my printer when I installed the OS, but it hadn't. So after a couple of impatiently unsuccessful attempts, I decided to have a little patience with the detection program and it finally found the printer and installed it. I haven't tried to print anything yet...but here's to it working correctly!

Office 2000 running!

Alrighty, I just got office 2000 running. Here's how I did it (in Feisty Fawn).

Found this wiki pretty much broke down the process perfectly for me. Whatever you do, don't forget to install internet explorer (good 'ole Microsoft loves making their programs interdependent!), and this page will tell you how for Ubuntu. The wiki references this page for some info on how to make a few adjustments in Wine.

After finishing installation, go to your home folder and make sure your hidden files are visible (View>show hidden files), and then you can go into the ".wine" folder, in which you will probably go to "drive_c" (wine's virtual drive c for linux), go to "program files", then "Microsoft office", then "office" and then find the correct .exe file (winword, excel, powerpnt...).

I want to find a way to post a "shortcut" (sorry to use the windows lingo!) on my desktop, just haven't found a way yet. I'll let ya know as soon as I figure it out!