I recently had to reinstall MS Office 2010 using Play On Linux. Everything works OK except the program will not connect to my printer.
I also have Office 2007 installed in Play On Linux and the printer works OK. Checked and printer installed and working in CUPS and HPLIP no other printing issues. Any suggestions would be helpful.
Hi Tramlink,
Not really got an answer for you, but for what it’s worth Windows on Linux via WINE etc has always been an unmatched fight with M$. As far as MS Office is concerned, I switched to Open Office in the late 90’s and haven’t really been back since.
If it helps, there’s not all that much difference these days as far as I can see, so long as you don’t use the very latest M$ document format for storing documents, opening M$ documents in LibreOffice generally seems Ok, and as far as the UI is concerned, there’s a little piece here on making LibreOffice “look” like M$ Office;
Note; if you’re using a Raspberry Pi (!) then the Pi-Apps repo carries a “MS Office” theme for Libre-Office … makes it look very similar, right down to the ribbon menus etc.
Hi and thanks for this information. I have LibreOffice on my computer however, I have the following problems with it.
There are not a full range of Windows fonts so if I open a document then it often needs to be reformatted. Will take a look at your suggestions.
Mm, well font files are fairly standard so should work on any machine, possibly with reformatting but typically not. So if you have the office fonts for your wine install and your license let’s those fonts be used on Linux, I would expect those fonts to work with Libre office (!)
That said, one of the tweaks listed in that link relates to setting fonts to match Office, from what I can see on my install, the fonts already “seem” to be there … although I may have inadvertently installed them previously … or have the wrong font name …
Problem resolved. Changing the Wine configuration in the POL virtual drive to version 5 sorted out the problems.
Cool. Just as a matter of interest, what are the factors keeping you on Office rather than LibreOffice … ?
I use LibreOffice when communicating with people or companies that use this software.
I find it is best to use MS Office when communicating with people who use office.
Although from Windows 10 onwards, it will read ODS & ODT files, it’s amazing how many people are still using older (and perhaps less secure) versions that won’t.
I find it is best to use MS Office when communicating with people who use office.
Mm, I suspected that was the reason, but I find that really interesting.
Typically when I communicate with other companies I only ever send PDF’s because I want a record of what was sent and specifically don’t want them to alter it.
Internally, having everyone using the same software makes a lot of sense, but then that’s an internal company decision, whether to spend potentially a lot of money on M$ software, or nothing on what is essentially the same software, but free.
The other problem I’ve found is loading different documents on different versions of M$ office. It’s been a while but I seem to have memories of receiving Office documents I couldn’t open because they’d been written using versions of Office that were newer than mine … I guess that’s making a case for always buying the latest version of the software.
Moving away from M$ has always been an interesting and controversial topic which keeps changing. Would be really cool if M$ released Office for Linux, as they did for Mac all those years ago …
Yes I fully agree with most of what you said. When it comes to exchanging documents it maybe the case that you want to change the document.
Br,
Clive
Mmm, indeed … however this sort of activity seems to validate some of the online office implementations where you can share a document between users and have them effectively collaborate with interactive red-lining. (rather than making a change and passing it back and fore via email)
Even with different versions of Office you’re potentially open for formatting differences, but if the collaborators are all using the same online version of (whatever) application, scope for formatting issues sort of goes out the Window.
I’ve never really been a fan of using a Word-processing inside a web browser, but from certain viewpoints I can see some merit.
Talking of Word-processors inside browsers, have you seen this?
(“proper” LibreOffice running inside a browser?)
