{"id":1358,"date":"2018-11-20T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peintinger.com\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2018-11-20T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T01:49:00","slug":"wine-crossover-office-18-and-microsoft-office-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peintinger.com\/?p=1358","title":{"rendered":"Wine (Crossover Office 18) and Microsoft Office 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use Ubuntu (18.10) for work. For RDP I use a Virtual Machine running Windows 10. While LibreOffice is great for many things, its Microsoft Office comparability is limited. Especially PowerPoint presentations do not look great. Google Slides does a great job here. As long as I have an internet connection it is my preferred choice for office, also due to its collaboration features. Sometimes I still need to use original Microsoft Office applications. Running them in a VM is one option, but the integration into the filesystem, especially with my Nextcloud sucks though.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago I was running an older version of office with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winehq.org\/\">WINE<\/a>. I was not in the mood to play around with the config so I bought Crossover Office 2018 and give Microsoft Office 2016 (32 bit) a try. The good thing is the money will find its way towards the WINE project.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the box Word, Excel, Access, Outlook and Publisher seem to work. PowerPoint did not. It took me a while to figure it out and Google did not help much. But after disabling &#8216;Performance Enhanced Graphics&#8217; for the bottle it launches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peintinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-from-2018-11-20-20-48-04.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1360\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/peintinger.com\/?attachment_id=1360\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peintinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-from-2018-11-20-20-48-04.png?fit=1222%2C1231&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1222,1231\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot from 2018-11-20 20-48-04\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peintinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-from-2018-11-20-20-48-04.png?fit=525%2C529&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peintinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-from-2018-11-20-20-48-04.png?resize=298%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peintinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-from-2018-11-20-20-48-04.png?resize=298%2C300&amp;ssl=1 298w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peintinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-from-2018-11-20-20-48-04.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peintinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-from-2018-11-20-20-48-04.png?resize=768%2C774&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peintinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-from-2018-11-20-20-48-04.png?resize=1017%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1017w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peintinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-from-2018-11-20-20-48-04.png?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peintinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-from-2018-11-20-20-48-04.png?resize=600%2C604&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peintinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-from-2018-11-20-20-48-04.png?w=1222&amp;ssl=1 1222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use Ubuntu (18.10) for work. For RDP I use a Virtual Machine running Windows 10. While LibreOffice is great for many things, its Microsoft Office comparability is limited. Especially PowerPoint presentations do not look great. Google Slides does a great job here. As long as I have an internet connection it is my preferred &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peintinger.com\/?p=1358\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wine (Crossover Office 18) and Microsoft Office 2016&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6W04n-lU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peintinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peintinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peintinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peintinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peintinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peintinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/peintinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peintinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peintinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peintinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}