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Yes, absolutely - wine itself has a layer to allow that. Have used it before and it works well (albeit with a bit of tweaking).
I have searched around a little in the past and haven't managed to find a way to run MS Office on Linux (In particular, Excel. I don't care what anyone says, Calc is just not the same). I'd think if you can do a Windows VM set up like this, then you'd be able to do Excel. Can you point me to something that might help?
You can! Just use WinApps, it provides seamless windows + file type association, so it works similar to Parallels on Mac - you just double click an .xlsx in Linux, it fires up an Excel window on your Linux desktop.
Another option that works similarly, is Cassowary, but it hasn't been updated since Dec last year.
In either case, I'd highly recommend using a minimal, debloated version of Windows, such as Tiny10, so that it launches faster and doesn't consume much resources.
Amazing, thanks! I'll give this a go when I get a chance 😀