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Do any of you have M$ Word running in present form? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Instead of pirating anything, you can instead use:

https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts for activation

https://massgrave.dev/office_msi_links for download of office

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

(these count as piracy, but yes, they work well and are reliable)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah this is the last version of Office that doesn't nag you and your can find keys or buy generated ones off eBay if you feel guilty or worried about malicious cracks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't Office 2010 work in Wine?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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