Microsoft OneNote 2003 Forum

It is working almost flawlessly on my laptop as I write. Details:

Crossover Office version 6.0.0
Fedora 5
Pentium 3 (yes, and don't laugh) 1GHz
OneNote w/ SP1

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So you're probably most interested in getting it working yourself- here's a very short howto. Post here if you have any questions. These are just the steps I used... I'm sure that many variations will work, and I'll test more in short order and post the results here.

First, I installed off of the MSDN DVD... It worked quite well, but I can't speak for other installation sources. The disc must be mounted using the 'unhide' flag, or you won't get past entering key.

I installed this using the Office 2003 profile and bottle, as suplied by cxoffice.

Install normally, I chose to install everything, just in case. Once done, upon first run, you'll get a few errors- first, it'll complain about not being able to create it's initial environment. To fix this... just have access to a Windows machine with OneNote installed, and copy over the

C:\Documents and Settings[user]\My Documents\My Notebook

to the Linux machine. Close OneNote and open again... you'll see your tab structure and if you click around, you'll notice that the text layout is intact. Unfortunately, you can't see anything- no text, not even if you attempt and select it. That's because of the other error you received when starting it up- that you were missing msls31.dll, the library for unicode supplied by Internet Explorer. Next chore- copy that dll from a windows XP host (don't know if other OS version will work) to your Linux cxoffice installation's /Windows/System32 directory.

That's it! I've run a limited functionality test on it... everything I really care about is there and functioning properly. I'll have to test audio recording and everything else later- it's a very robust program and will take time to properly profile under Crossover. Regardless, it works!

Final note- well done, codeweavers team. I'm very impressed with your progress... it's not an easy thing in any light to attempt to make Office work in Linux. So much undocumented stuff going on :)

Just a quick update:

Adding new sections or folders doesn't currently work. An empty file is created, but OneNote seems unable to populate the file- an old bug, but at least things are working. The (rather hackish) way to get around this is to create an empty section, then navigate to your "My Notebook" directory and make a copy of that section each time you want to add one. The same holds true for a folder. OneNote will (almost) immediately recognize the changes you've made and add the section and you'll be able to rename it... just as if OneNote had created the file itself.

So it can't create files, but it can append to and change any existing file structure. Darn close :) I'm a happy camper, at least. Feel free to contact me if you need a copy of a blank section- it would also help to get you started, if you don't have an existing OneNote installation.

By the way, no, audio and video don't work- rather expected. I'll get around to testing it with WMP installed at some point... but that's a whole new challenge ;)

I was able to get OneNote 2003 installed on CrossOver for Mac. I updated the permissions on the folder so OneNote could create new pages and folders. I also installed msls31.dll so I could see my text. Since I started out with the original OneNote 2003 CD I needed to update to SP2 to see my subpage titles and all of the other fixes/enhancements. After installing SP2 OneNote crashes every time I try to start it up. I get this error.

AppName: onenote.exe AppVer: 11.0.6554.0 AppStamp:4265828f
ModName: mso.dll ModVer: 11.0.6568.0 ModStamp:42e18ef6
fDebug: 0 Offset: 0003446c

I checked to see if mso.dll was anywhere in my bottle and it was in the Office shared files as MSO.DLL. Has anyone else run into this problem?

Kirsten

Thomas,

Where did you copy "My Notebook" to on the Linux machine? Users home directory? Somewhere in the ,cxoffice path?

Thanks,
Mark Collins