Steps to install
1. Create 32 bit prefix
2. Add to registry DWORD "HKCU/Software/Wine/Direct2D/max_version_factory" with value "0"
3. Add to registry DWORD "HKCU/Software/Wine/Direct3D/MaxVersionGL" with value "30002" (hexadecimal)
4. winetricks msxml6 riched20
5. Run installer downloaded from office.com
6. Copy AppvIsvSubsystems32.dll and C2R32.dll from "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ClickToRun" to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Client" and to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16"
7. Start using Office 365 !
I don’t know if I am adding the DWORD's correctly or not? By the way the Direct2D and Direct3D keys were not originally available, I had to create this manually.
And then when it goes to the next stage of the installation (I guess its kinda glitchy with missing text so I don’t exactly know but I notice its not using much disk and CPU usage as well as the terminal is not outputting new information.) it shows this screen
Thanks for the pictorial representation of the steps, I have tried this from many angles regarding whether to run the offline image file from office dot com or run the web installer. You too might have been run it successfully by now but still here are the steps which worked for me:
In winecfg Windows version: Windows 7
Same as OP’s
Same as OP’s
Probably the pause button indicates that the setup is over ( I am running Arch OS and in my case the icons disappears after a minute or too during the install, also no pause button ), But after a while I could see that CPU and network usage have become negligible from wine usage and followed the step 6 to copy the dlls to appropriate locations, and manually started the programs excel word using wine drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/root/Office16 {./EXCEL.EXE for excel, ./WINWORD.EXE for word, ./POWERPNT.EXE for powerpoint} and all seemed to work fine (Although initial impression), and from the Account page it says Subcription Product Microsoft 365. Will have to see if any problem comes up. Till now all good.
It is very difficult to keep Office 365 working consistently under Wine. Every time they get it working, it is broken again in a future update. The reality is that Wine is still partial Windows emulation, not everything is going to work with it.
If you need the full fat Windows clients I would recommend running them in a Windows VM, otherwise, use the web versions.
The only office version I can get to work all the time (but not all components) is office 2010 using wine and playonlinux. Powerpoint often does not work but it does with EnOS though never did on Manjaro. I try to use libreoffice as much as possible but I run into compatibility problems with my colleagues that used on windows and mac and have native office when I need to edit word documents with tracked changes and complicated formatting like equations and other fields.
So you might try play on linux and office 2010. Try 32bit if 64 does not work. Wine seems to work better with 32 bit.
Font rendering in LibreOffice is such a longstanding bugbear, despite a decades worth of fiddling, I’ve never been able to get it to look halfway decent, to the point where I will just work in plan text and paste after.
LibreOffice is painfully under-represented in terms of developers and investment, the one thing we don’t truly have within Linux is a decent fully-featured office suite. Like it or not, Office 365 is head and shoulders above everything else, because they have the money and development time to sustain that level of quality.
As long as you’re just writing texts you might want to try Scribus or Lyx.
If you need a complete office suite Calligra (former Koffice) might be an alternative.
Large-scale data dashboarding, manipulation, reporting, VB etc. If you work in a corporate environment, it’s more often than not the lifeblood of the organisation. Visualising, handling and presenting data via tools like Excel and PowerBI are a significant use-case.
While we tend to allow off-topic conversation, a discussion of why use office suites is probably a bit too far off-topic in a help request for installing MS Office under Wine.
It really just depends. I have done a ton of compatibility testing.
I have seen examples that open best in LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, WPS and FreeOffice/Softmaker Office. It seems to be totally dependent on which features are used in the file.
