MS Office 2007 runs in Wine

Even though there is Openoffice and Abiword, Gnumeric, for Linux, you might want to run MS Office anyway.

Here's how:

1) Run winecfg, set windows version to Vista.
2) Clicked 'autodetect' on drives tab to assign a drive (d:\) to cdrom
2) Downloaded winetricks, run "sh winetricks msxml3 dotnet20 gdiplus riched20 riched30 vcrun2005sp1". Clicked through installers.
3) rename ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/rpcrt4.dll to rpcrt4.bak
4) download a new rpcrt4.dll from here: http://www.mediafire.com/?njtut9aswdk Copy to that to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32.
5) winecfg->libraries add an override for rpcrt4.dll (i left it at native,builtin)
6) run the installer (cd do cdrom and then "wine setup.exe" or just "./setup.exe" works on Ubuntu)
7) Clicked through installer, added product key, etc. Progress bar slows down a bit about 60% done, but just wait a few minutes and it finishes.
8) Remove the downloaded rpcrt4.dll, restore the .bak. Open winecfg and remove the override. Change the windows version back to XP.
9) Start up office. ("cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Office/Office12", then "wine WINWORD.EXE").