CrossOver Office

Program Info
Terminal Commandwine --cx-app [program executable] (Crossover Office usually creates menu shortcuts that are better to use.)
Program URLhttp://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/cxoffice

CrossOver Office is the kinder, gentler implementation of Wine. CrossOver is a commercial program that is based on Wine. You can run specific Windows programs that the makers of CrossOver Office, CodeWeavers, have tested. You can use CrossOver to get browser plug-ins to work with most browsers. You can also use the program as an additional way to install TrueType fonts. The program was originally focused on getting Microsoft Office programs to run under Linux, thus the name.

CrossOver installs and runs Windows programs through a nice, ...

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