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Do any of you have M$ Word running in present form? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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My old man has a bunch of .dox stuff saved. He has complicated large files saved that are not supported by any of the FOSS conversion tools. I've tried Libre office, Abi Word, and every command line tool and converter I can find. These are entire book sized files.

I have a W10 machine with Word. Is extracting the .exe and running it with wine feasible without making an epic mess or massive project of this?

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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I will agree with the people suggesting "VM and a pirated copy"

Just get like office 2010 and windows 7 off of the web, run it in a VM, convert the files, dump it all.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Doesn't Office 2010 work in Wine?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    I wouldn't know, but since OP is having compatibility issues, I'd try to get as close to native as I could. Eliminate the room-for-error. Hence the VM with actual Windows.

    They can just delete the lot after they've converted their files to an opener format. :P

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