Hi Frank and other early Yosemite adopters,
It seems that it is difficult to get it to work after upgrading. At least I could not find a very simple way. Then I tried a different WINE package that WillysJeepMan had referred to earlier. It worked!! It will take about 45 minutes. I think it is best to back up your WORD files and delete the entire Mac package before doing this.
Here are some initial instructions that I prepared for our students.
Hope it helps! Blessings.
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Using Wineskin Winery
(BTW WINE is an acronym: Wine Is Not an Emulator)
Thanks to WillysJeepMan who shared this method on the forum before, on 28 July 2014. I simply tried it out for Yosemite and added some instructions. Thanks!
Wineskin Winery is a program that has several advantages: 1. It is free, 2. You do not need a Windows license, 3. It works with Yosemite, 4. TheWORD can be packaged inside a so-called Wrapper and shared with others.
What the Wineskin Winery App does is to create a Windows style wrapper in which you install your desired Windows program. You can create as many wrappers as you want for different Windows programs. They function as stand-alone programs inside a single wrapper. You can even put them on your dock and you would hardly notice it is a Windows program!
Installing the wineskin (the wrapper-creating App) is initially a little awkward but it seems to work, both for Mavericks and Yosemite!!
Go to:
http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/
Click on the Downloads tab and select download file.
In your downloads folder there is now a file called Wineskin Winery App
Double click, click OK for downloaded file from internet and install.
Add an
engine, select the newest and click download and install.
Now you have one item under installed engines
Now click on
Update under wrapper.
It usually does not work the first time, but I left other programs running while installing. This does not work! So close all programs and then open the Wineskin Winery App again. It is still inside the downloads folder. Try again to Update under wrapper. It should work, sometimes after a few times.
Then click on
create a new blank wrapper, the option is now not greyed out any longer.
Give it a name. You could choose Book Study or even TheWORD (rather than ‘MyCoolWrapper’).
Wait while it is being updated
Then a window states that something could not be found, something .NET. Click Install and it will download the Wine Mono Installer.
Next is a message regarding Gecko. Just hit Cancel.
Then wait while busy etc. It may disappear behind a finder window, just wait and it should start popping up and down in the dock, indicating it is done.
The Wrapper is finished, with the name you originally gave. At this time you should close the Wineskin Winery program, otherwise you end up with two similar looking icons in the Dock, one is called Winery (the full name of the App is the Wineskin Winery), and an other one (that you will open soon and looks very similar and is labeled with a name that you gave; I suggested ‘Book Study’).
The original wrapper creating app is still located in the downloads and you can run it from there, but it is better to move it to the regular Applications folder, where all other Mac Apps reside. (Macintosh HD -> Applications). You do not need this program any more until you want to create another wrapper that holds a different Windows-based program that you may want to use on your Mac.
The other one, the ‘Book Study’ App is located somewhere else: Go to your home folder, then to the (different!) Applications folder in there. There should be just one folder/program there. This is the path: (Macintosh HD -> Users -> Home Folder -> Applications -> Wineskin -> Book Study App)
Now we need to actually install the program inside this ‘Windows Wrapper’ that you just created. You need to open this App, either double clicking, hitting Command Arrow Down or Right-click on the Book Study App and select Open. The options given here work in Mavericks or Yosemite, but I noticed that not all three work in both iOSes. Then a small window comes up where you click Install Software. The next window is the Installer. Click on the Choose Setup Executable. Then you browse to the place where your ‘theword-setup-en.exe’ file is located. Initially it is best to use the starting package downloaded from the internet, the regular Windows one.) Click Choose and it should start! (Message says: Wineskin is currently busy, Please wait...)
The first window that comes up is “theWord Installation”, click on Next, then on I agree. Next window concerns the type of installation, keep it on the default ‘Normal’ and click Next again. Then Next again (Here all Add-on resources should have a green tick next to them). Then Install in the default C:\Program Files\The Word folder, which is already given as the standard option. The last window is the one where you simply click on Finish to complete the installation and Run the program for the first time. The Option to Run the Word is already selected by default.
Open the program and everything should be there. Now click on File (the Windows style menu bar at the top of the TheWORD program, not on the menu bar on top of the Mac screen!). Close it. You are done!
At this point you want to add your own modules of course, since this is just the basic package from the website. You need to know where the program is and where those modules are located and how you can copy them over.
This is the path:
/Users/”your home folder”/Applications/Wineskin/Book Study app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/users/Public/Application Data/The Word/ (Once you are in here you see the familiar folders: Books, Bibles, Cache, Misc, Templates and Backgrounds.)
In the middle you see Book Study app (or whatever name you did), you need to right-click on the app and choose Show Package contents, then, only then, can you dig deeper into the file structure.
It is possible to actually change the icon of the Book Study App, so that it looks like the TheWORD icon. This is how you do that:
Select the blue TheWORD icon at the beginning of this document/from the Internet and copy it. Then go to the Book Study Ap in a Finder window. Click on the App once, and then click Command-i. In that new information window that pops up click once on the brown icon at the top-left. (not the very small icon next to the red-orange-green buttons, but the one slightly larger underneath, next to the name of the App.) You will see a small selection stroke around the icon. Now simply do a Command-v and the blue icon you selected earlier will replace the brown Winery one.
To open this program you will have to right click on the icon and select ‘Open’. For some strange reason it does not respond to double clicking on my computer. However if you move the Book Study App to the Dock it will open normally.
Also, a window may come up asking you to specify or confirm what exe file you want to associate with this wrapper. Just choose the exe file referred to earlier that is now somewhere deep inside your App file structure, but normally it already suggests that file and its location is given too.
Hope this helps.
Next week I will have an extended version of this for our students including a Keynote. If interested let me know.