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Connect 1 display to your computer (so now we have 2 displays).

Office will start in the top left of your primary display.

Close office and disconnect any number of displays (e.g.

In which case Office will act normally (subjective) again. Office will start with a maximum size restricted to the top left of your primary display, and will refuse to respect the size of your desktop, until you connect the 'correct' number of displays again.

Start Office with an additional display.

Note In any situation where you use a multiple displays with your computer, Office will not display correctly if:. Optional: Restart the computer just to be extra careful. You may want to remove these drives before trying the below installation process. If your tried installing using the scripts, there may be POL Virtual Drives with empty or partial installations. Optional: Remove previous unsuccessful installation of Office 2016 on POL.

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It is uncertain whether installing these made any difference so you could try the manual installation steps below first and then come back to this step if you encounter errors. I received various errors relating to winetricks and mono from the scripts I tried previously so I had already installed these by the time I tried the manual installation.

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Office 2016 Pro Plus link is the first one on that page.

If you just want to test installation, try downloading using one of these direct links.

If you have the product key, use the Download Earlier Versions of Office page.

If the license is tied to your MS account, then use your account dashboard.

I assume you have downloaded the Office 2016 Pro Plus version in the rest of this answer. You can download it from MS using one of the below options. Optional: download the Office 2016 installation file if you don't already have it or have a CD.

sudo wget -O /etc/apt//playonlinux.list.

Here are the Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) instructions:

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This is because at one point POL gave an error indicating an update is needed and this error disappeared once I upgraded to POL v4.3.4. Optional: Update POL to the latest version.

Winbindd -V #Confirms that winbind is installed Smbclient -V #Confirms that smbclient is installed

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Sudo apt-get install wine-stable:i386 smbclient winbind Note: DO NOT use -no-install-recommends to install wine-stable, as it will cause the Office installation to always crash due to some missing dependencies (didn't manage to pinpoint which packages). On top of wine:i386, you will need smbclient and winbind for Office to start.

If you try to apt-get install wine:i386, it will fail because it is tied to 2 packages. Parts of these instructions are based on GlasierXplor's POL forum post as well as other answers here.ĭependency installation: According to POL's website, wine:i386 needs to be installed. The below manual process essentially replicates those scripts and the advantage of this manual process is that you can see exactly where your specific setup might be encountering problems. I tried the default script that comes with POL as well as some of the other scripts provided here but they became stuck (eg Office installation does not finish) or crashed at various points (eg 'file not found' error). All the apps except OneNote opens, though I have only really used Word and Excel so I can't speak for the functionality of the other apps.įirstly, try the default POL script and/or some of the other scripts here to check if they work because that would save you a lot of time and headache. I will provide directions that worked for me for a manual (non-script) installation of Microsoft Office 2016 Professional Plus on Ubuntu 18.04 using PlayOnLinux (POL) v4.3.4 and Wine x86 v3.4.