408 CHAPTER 28 RUNNING MICROSOFT OFFICE UNDER UBUNTU Running the Office programs is a matter of navigating to the /home//c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office folder and running the executables via Wine. For example, to run Microsoft Word on my system, I typed: wine /home/keir/c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/WINWORD.EXE To run Excel, you can type EXCEL.EXE. PowerPoint is POWERPNT.EXE, Access is MSACCESS.EXE, and Outlook is OUTLOOK.EXE. Don t forget that these must be typed in uppercase, because uppercase and lowercase matters in Linux. Figure 28-3 shows an example of running Word under Ubuntu. Figure 28-3. It s entirely possible to run Microsoft Word under Ubuntu. Just add a little Wine! Alternatively, you can easily create desktop shortcuts for your Office programs. See Chapter 10 for details on creating shortcuts. Aside from being a subdirectory within it, the dummy C: drive is entirely separate from your main file system, which is to say that no Windows programs will ever be installed outside this subdirectory. This should give you some peace of mind when it comes to threats from viruses and worms. In theory at least, only the files in this directory will be affected should you pick up an infection. (The Wine developers have theorized that a Windows virus running under Wine could infect your main system, but it would have to be created with knowledge that it might be running under Wine, and no such viruses have yet been found.)
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