How to: Install and Use MS Office 2007 in Linux

January 22nd, 2009 I know Microsoft Word is the most reliable document creator for most of us. Be it office work or personal attachments, using MS word is inevitable.

April 3rd, 2009 Microsoft was supposed to come out with the well updated version of Microsoft office 2007, namely MS office 2007 sp2 by the middle of 2009 or later. But it seems that someone from China got a chance to use the beta version of it and has upgraded it through torrents.

July 12th, 2008 In Linux wine (or crossover office if you like to pay) is used to execute Windows applications. wine normally open exe files only.

January 12th, 2006 The US Patent and Trademark Office has declared that patents Microsoft holds on file allocation tables (FAT) are valid. Unfortunately Linux OS uses FAT file system.

October 23rd, 2007 Sometimes windows installers come with msi extension instead of regular exe extension. Such software can be installed with the msiexec command which comes with wine.

December 18th, 2007 GrooveMonitor is a service utility that tracks groove behavour and creates reports for error reporting to MS (what else does it report?). It loads on startup.

April 10th, 2007 XMemo is an alternative to IPMsg (for Windows only) and claims to interoperate with IPMSg protocol. In short a quick messaging tool for intranet use.

April 9th, 2009 Did you ever imagine that your blackberry can be used as a modem too. Yes, thanks to berry4all, a free, open-source software for using your Blackberry on alternative OS’es (Linux, OSX)It has been tested on Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora) and OS X (Tiger (PPC & x86), Leopard) and is found to be good.

October 10th, 2008 Most techies and developer prefer using the terminal on Linux. If you are like me a heavy command line interface (cli) user than you will find these simple tips useful.

August 22nd, 2007 Fedora project has created a simple script to install Fedora 7 on a USB Drive with 1GB+ capacity. To use the script you will need two things: 1.

May 31st, 2008 Login as or su to root and run: yum -y install pcre zlib lighttpd That's it folks! Note: The -y saves you from ok'ing the download & installation.

April 11th, 2007 RSSOwl is a high quality cross-platform (written in java; uses swt library) RSS / Atom Feed reader which is a superior free alternative to Newzcrawler or Feedreader for linux. Fedora Core 6 provides an RPM distribution for it (doesn't work) which you can install simply by: yum install rssowl However as stated before it doesn't work.

December 26th, 2006 Install Sun's Java Virtual Machine ( J2SE(TM) Development Kit 5.0 Update 9 ) on Fedora Core / Linux platform in 5 simple steps. The procedure is geared for users having access to Linux box from ssh / telnet only as in a vpn / dedicated web hosting.

March 16th, 2009 I know if you work with spreadsheets and particularly Microsoft Excel, you must be annoyed with the column widths according to your liking. To copy paste cells, you can use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.

August 23rd, 2007 According to DesktopLinux.com's just completed survey, the number of Desktop Linux users has more than doubled in 2006, and Ubuntu remains the no. 1 Linux distribution of choice for desktop users.