Run Microsoft Office on macOS with WineBottler
How to run Microsoft Office on macOS without any Windows operating system. (This is NOT Office for Mac 2011 which is a mess. This is why Microsoft Office is not successful on Mac and Linux. The should must provide a 1:1 copy of Office with 1:1 behavior on ALL platforms.)
But you can run original windows version of Office with wine.
Wine Windows emulator, WineBottler
Note: There are different methods to run Windows Programs on macOS.
Using WineBottler [did worked for me]
Environment
- macOS Mojave Version 10.14.5 (18F203)
- Original Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus installer EXE or a valid key. (Professional Plus is with Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
You can download a copy of Office 2010 here but you need a valid key: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/office - WineBottler version 1.8.6 stable, http://winebottler.kronenberg.org
Step 1: WineBottler: Download
Step 2: WineBottler: Install
Step 3: WineBottler: start and setup
Choose the following winetricks:
[ x ] corefonts, Optionally you can also choose [ x ] allfonts.
You need at least:
MS Sans Serif
Microsoft Sans Serif
Tahoma
Segoe UI (used for the Ribbon Menu text)
Calibri (standard font for body text within Word 2010)
Cambria (standard heading text within Word 2010)
[ x ] dotnet20
[ x ] gdiplus
[ x ] msxml6
[ x ] riched20
Step 4: WineBottler Install the Windows Exe Installer
Hit Install.
It first will install all winetricks (DLL, fonts, etc.) and then Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 or any other package you choose.
Step 5: How to start Excel and PowerPoint from Word
Known Issues
Problem
- Normal Text font body like Calibri and Segue UI in the Ribbon menu is shown in italic.
Solution
- Best solution so far: Restart Office 2016, font was showing normal.
- If this does not work for you:
Install fonts to your mac, right-click on the app package then Show Package Contents, then navigate to
Contents > Resources > wineprefix > drive_c > windows > fonts. Then just double click the font you want to install on your macOS. FontBook will open and install the font for you on-the-fly. - Fonts you need at least:
Calibri (for normal text), Segue UI (for the ribbon text), Cambria (default heading format), etc.
Word 2007 on macOS without Windows
Using brew [did not worked for me]
NOTE: This did not worked for me.
Environment
- Microsoft Office 2010
- macOS Mojave Version 10.14.5 (18F203)
- wine version 4.0.1, see
- brew (package installer, see https://brew.sh ). You can also use others for example port if package is available, or direct download binary files
Step 1: Install brew
Homebrew, The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux), https://brew.sh/
1.1 Run Terminal
Start Terminal it's in the Applications/Utilities/ folder
1.2 Install brew
Paste that in a macOS Terminal prompt. It will install brew for you. See https://brew.sh/ for more details.
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
NOTE: This may take a while, be patient.
Step 2: Install wine
In your Terminal, type the following to install wine or any other package.
$ <strong>brew install wine</strong>Updating Homebrew...
==> Auto-updated Homebrew!
Updated 1 tap (homebrew/core).
==> New Formulae
cpu_features protobuf@3.7
==> Updated Formulae
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Warning: wine 4.0.1 is already installed and up-to-date
To reinstall 4.0.1, run `brew reinstall wine`
$
Check installed wine version with:
$ <strong>wine --version</strong>
wine-4.0.1
$2.2 Install winetricks
$ <strong>brew install winetricks</strong>Updating Homebrew...
==> Installing dependencies for winetricks: cabextract, p7zip and unrar
==> Installing winetricks dependency: cabextract
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/cabextract-1.9.1.mojave.bottle.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring cabextract-1.9.1.mojave.bottle.tar.gz
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/cabextract/1.9.1: 10 files, 142.4KB
==> Installing winetricks dependency: p7zip
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/p7zip-16.02_2.mojave.bottle.tar.gz
==> Downloading from https://akamai.bintray.com/0d/0de20c4bd05dc5652ca5f188895bf74e52eb701aaed502a0d1271eb58236f898?__gda__=exp=1566757621~hmac=06beb55305a01b9955b549634a60dd55ec607f3f955fae84ee11bdb01d05bfee&response-content-disposit
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring p7zip-16.02_2.mojave.bottle.tar.gz
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/p7zip/16.02_2: 103 files, 4.5MB
==> Installing winetricks dependency: unrar
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/unrar-5.7.5.mojave.bottle.tar.gz
==> Downloading from https://akamai.bintray.com/8d/8d30a945be9a3b5a668d3c558f40dd22d3ba1e4b44e3f3d3a1b004b594d66fbf?__gda__=exp=1566757626~hmac=80131a371286cde431989b9cabaf12b1b71743e2a36e18c463425cf989cd3e5b&response-content-disposit
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring unrar-5.7.5.mojave.bottle.tar.gz
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/unrar/5.7.5: 6 files, 499.6KB
==> Installing winetricks
==> Downloading https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks/archive/20190615.tar.gz
==> Downloading from https://codeload.github.com/Winetricks/winetricks/tar.gz/20190615
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Caveats
winetricks is a set of utilities for wine, which is installed separately:
brew install wine
==> Summary
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/winetricks/20190615: 6 files, 829.3KB, built in 45 seconds
==> `brew cleanup` has not been run in 30 days, running now...
Removing: /Users/michael/Library/Caches/Homebrew/libssh--0.8.7.mojave.bottle.tar.gz... (486.6KB)
Removing: /Users/michael/Library/Caches/Homebrew/node--12.7.0.mojave.bottle.tar.gz... (14.7MB)
Removing: /Users/michael/Library/Logs/Homebrew/groff... (64B)
Removing: /Users/michael/Library/Logs/Homebrew/wine... (917B)
Removing: /Users/michael/Library/Logs/Homebrew/hercules... (64B)
==> Caveats
==> winetricks
winetricks is a set of utilities for wine, which is installed separately:
brew install wine
Step 3: Install Microsoft Office
Somewhere you have stored the original installer exe and install files.
You need to install the Windows Program with wine first before you can use it.
TODO env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-office10 wine X16-32250.exe
$ <strong>cd PATH_TO_YOUR_INSTALLER_FILE</strong>
$ <strong>wine setup.exe</strong>
