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Do any of you have M$ Word running in present form?
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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.
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
(these count as piracy, but yes, they work well and are reliable)
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.
Doesn't Office 2010 work in Wine?
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