Microsoft Office 2010 Tips

I've never been able to get regular internet activation to work with Office 2007 and now with Office 2010. I've always had to use the telephone activation, which is rather annoying. I finally stumbled across a solution that worked for me. You'll need close down any running office applications, then in Crossover select the Office 2010 bottle, hold down the Option key, and choose the Open Shell menu item that appears under the Bottle menu.

wine ./windows/system32/cscript.exe ./Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Office/Office14/OSPP.VBS /inpkey:

In Crossover Linux skip the Open Shell thing and in a terminal just run:

/opt/cxoffice/bin/wine ~/.cxoffice/(Office 2010 bottle name)/drive_c/windows/system32/cscript.exe ./Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Office/Office14/OSPP.VBS /inpkey:

Then open up any office application and follow the activation prompts. This time it should work instead of giving you the "An unspecified error has occured 0xC002001C" error."