Re: crossover office info - The Definitive How (Not ) To

[Daniel Feiglin]

Hello folks!

After carefully reviewing my correspondence with Hetz, relevent bits of the Crossover FAQ, and a few false starts, I finally have MS Office up an running.

To save many people future headaches, I've summarised the main steps, along with a few recommendations.

1. The environment - I'm using SuSE 8.1 on a P4, none of which matters very much. Any reasonably standard distro should work - but you may have to do some menu and desktop fiddling by hand at the end.

2. For the time being, do NOT do a super-user install. Even if you run

LANG-he_IL/opt/cxoffice/bin/cxoffice officesetup

you will not get the Hebrew popup boxes and dialogues shown correctly.

3. So, select a local setup, in my case everything going into /home/danny/cxoffice. At the end of the Crossover install, do NOT do the configure. Exit, and manually type,

LANG=he_IL ~/cxoffice/bin/officesetup

Everything runs as expected, including correct Hebrew dialogues. In the Windows setup, I selected everything to be loaded to the hard disk, and the default installation location, C:\Program Files\bla bla bla.

4. If you test the installation by running LANG=he_IL ~/cxoffice/binmsword, MS Word will come up in Hebrew, with the menus on the wrong side and some of the dialogues in gibberish.

5. The best way to run MS Office here, is to install the English Language pack, on the second CD from the Office distro. To do this, mount the second CD and rerun officesetup as before, select ing "Other application". Point to the setup programme in the root directory of the CD and go. Make sure that you select English dialogues (and help if you prefer) in the ensuing dialogue. As usual, I loaded everything onto the hard disk at the default location.

6. When it's all over, rerun ~/cxoffice/bin/msword. It works perfectly, with English dialogues, but with Hebrew or English input as you wish. You will need to use the little nationality flag icon to switch between Hebrew and English keyboard input. (Alt Shift does not work.)

7. Menuing and Iconing: Run the Menu Editor, and look in the Crossover submenu. There are a series of hidden items with cryptic names (in ~/.kde/share/applnk/CrossOver). Using any viewer, you can identify them, and unhide the ones you want. I prefered to create a new submenu (there is a script provided; it's just as easy by hand), and copy/paste the items I wanted to the new submenu - with meaningful names.

If you like desktop icons, copy the relevant links (with the funny names) from ~/.kde/share/applnk/CrossOver to ~/Desktop. After a bit of renaming, you're done.

8. Uninstall Star Office or Oppen Office or whatever!

Hope that helps,


Daniel




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