I have been using MSOffice 2007 with POL on Ubuntu Studio 16.04 without any issues (Word, Excel and Ppt). Recently upgraded to Ubuntu Studio 18.04 and tried to install MS Office via POL. Selected Office from the list and noticed that it was defaulting to wine 1.6.2 but the installation was problematic - screens without any contents etc.
Office 12 will be a simultaneous release for both PC and Mac. It's supposed to be the first release achieving feature parity between the Mac and Windows versions. Currently Office:mac 2004 is, in my opinion, a superior version to Office 2003 for Windows. M icrosoft has released Microsoft Office 2007. Systems and Suites for Windows. However, the new Office 2007 is using new Office Open XML Formats as the default format for popular business productivity suites. Thus, instead of usual 3-character extension, Office 2007 now uses 4-character extension to identify and differentiate the Office 2007 files, such as Word.docx, Excel.xclx.
Then I used the 'Instal unlisted program' option and picked the wine system version ( which I understand is version 3 ) and the installation went off without any problems.
I can use Word and Excel without any issues but Powerpoint fails to start with an error
2007 Microsoft Office For Mac
Microsoft Office 2007 For Mac
[06/21/18 22:33:34] - Running wine- POWERPNT.EXE (Working directory : /home/guptila/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/MSOffice2007/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12)
0009:err:eventlog:ReportEventW L'Microsoft Office PowerPoint'
0009:err:eventlog:ReportEventW L'PowerPoint failed to start correctly last time. Starting PowerPoint in safe mode will help you correct or isolate a startup problem in order to successfully start the0009:err:ole:apartment_getclassobject DllGetClassObject returned error 0x80040111
0009:err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {c1ee01f2-b3b6-4a6a-9ddd-e988c088ec82} could be created for context 0x1
0009:err:mscoree:CLRRuntimeInfo_GetRuntimeDirectory error reading registry key for installroot