I still use it!

Nice, sounds good, good luck with it!

Ah yes, CodeWeavers CrossOver, yeah it’s essentially a customized and paid version of Wine, though I haven’t seen people have much more luck with it than just using latest standard Wine, but I’ve never tried it. When I tried various versions of Office directly in Wine, I ran across all kinds of installer and DLL issues, sadly.

I’m far from an expert, but here are links to WinApps and WinBoat (very similar solution):

• https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps
• https://www.winboat.app/

To add to what the other comment said, I used to use WinApps to run certain Windows programs from within* Linux, and Office worked pretty well. The caveat is that it’s essentially running a tiny virtual machine with Windows 11 on it, but with some niceties to make it feel like it’s somewhat integrated with the Linux desktop. (It’s not a good solution for something that needs live notifications, like email)

Couldn’t be me

Jim from The Office and ALSO of Middle Earth