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Word 2007



Category: Main > Productivity > Word Processing > Word > 2007


NameWord
Version2007
License Retail
URLhttp://www.microsoft.com/word/
Votes 9
RatingSilver
Wine Version1.1.25
Maintainers of this version:
Description
Word processing component of Microsoft Office 2007.
Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)

What works

Installer (see separate AppDB entry)

starting the application

 

The Office Orb menu thing: opening the menu and selecting 1 option that shows a menu on the right side.

saving and loading a simple document to and from docx and doc, I suppose bigger files won't be a problem.

Inserting autoshapes, tables (the insert table menu shows black squares under Wine, they should be white).

spelling and grammar check

annotations

equations if you use usp10.dll native!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (this is awesome)

bibliography and table of contents (see below)

watermarks, and probably every other commonly used function



What does not

 - The Office Orb menu thing: opening the menu and selecting a second option makes the menu disappear, nothing serious, the save dialog works!


- table of contents has a cool overlay/frame with an "update table" button that is not present under Wine. This is not show-stopping as you can update the table from the ribbon.


What was not tested
things not reported above


Additional Comments

- for equation editor not to crash the program, set usp10.dll to native.
 - winemenbuilder.exe crashes on start and close of the application, but has no effect on normal operation

Maintainer note: rating changed to conform to rating definitions.
Test Results
DistributionTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?RatingSubmitter
CurrentUbuntu 9.10 "Karmic" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jul 09 20091.1.25 Yes Yes Silver Rubenvb 
ShowUbuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jun 23 20091.1.24 Yes Yes Silver mrtwister 
ShowUbuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Apr 26 20091.1.20 No Not installable Garbage Ole Rasmussen 
ShowopenSUSE 11.1Apr 28 20091.1.19 Yes Yes Silver Ian Breakey 
ShowUbuntu 8.04 "Hardy" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Mar 26 20091.1.17 Yes Yes Silver Jeff 


Known bugs
Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
5264 Equation editor in Microsoft Office 97/2000/2003/2007 doesn't work NEW View
7372 can't copy and paste between gnome apps eg openoffice or gimp and wine apps such as dreamweaver or adobe photoshop NEW View
13891 start.exe http://someurl/ does not work (affects any app that invokes external browser, e.g. Google Sketchup) NEW View
14966 Cannot insert clip art in MS Word/Publisher in Office XP/2007 NEW View
15241 Microsoft Office 2007: Cannot updated IME dictionary NEW View
16121 Word 2003 Bold Face Type Bug NEW View
17464 Word 2007 can not save any documents and symbol input crashes Word UNCONFIRMED View
18982 Word 2007 tab stop selection is invisible UNCONFIRMED View
19385 the 'wine start' launcher does not open MS Office documents that have spaces in their path NEW View
19534 Office 2007 menu button loses focus NEW View
19535 Office 2007 splash screen hides dialog NEW View
20171 Microsoft Word 2007 vertical and horizontal ruler has misplaced numbers UNCONFIRMED View

 
HOWTO

Set riched20 to native and usp10 to native, builtin after installing. There is no need to copy the dlls, as Office 2007 installs its own versions, but the overrides must be set in winecfg in order for Wine to use them.

The problem with bullets and numbering not working appears to be fixed as of 1.1.11, but requires a fresh install under that version or later. If you do not wish to upgrade and/or reinstall, the workaround (for the English version, at least) is to go into Word Options, Language Settings and delete all languages other than U.S. English.  (Note that you must have symbol.ttf installed for bullets to display.)

Beginning with 1.1.16, Wine includes its own symbol.ttf, so there is no longer a need to install it separately.



 
Questions?
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Menu tip
by Firas Kraiem on Saturday November 14th 2009, 4:37
"- The Office Orb menu thing: opening the menu and selecting a second option makes the menu disappear, nothing serious, the save dialog works!"

This can be easily worked around. The menu disappears only when you select an option that opens a submenu, and then select another option that also opens a submenu. The trick is to first select an option that oens a submenu, then select an option that doesn't. Then you can select another option that does. For example, selecting "Save as" then "Print" will make the menu disappear, but selecting "Save as" then "Save" then "Print" won't.

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Citation bug
by Bug on Thursday October 29th 2009, 12:48
Whenever you use the citation editor (References tab, insert citation) and go to the website drop-down and try to paste a URL, the whole program crashes.

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SmartArt does not work
by Andrew Cleveland on Friday August 28th 2009, 3:04
On WINE 1.1.26, when I click the SmartArt button in a new document, the chooser dialog pops up. But no matter which type I choose, after I click OK nothing appears in the document.

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Font edginess
by Mike Kaplinskiy on Sunday April 12th 2009, 3:01
It seems that some anti-aliasing on fonts in word doesn't work due to lack of SourceAlphaConstant support. I have not tested this, but it seems the likely culprit (several fixme:xrender:X11DRV_AlphaBlend Ignoring SourceConstantAlpha 176 for AC_SRC_ALPHA). Could someone test this and possibly push the patch?

www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2008-June/056030.html

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Can't launch with a file as argument
by Jeff on Friday April 3rd 2009, 3:25
Hi all,

I tried to make a script to launch Word taking a file path (translated using winepath) as argument.

But I always get a 'file not found exception' from Word.

Does someone knows a workaround for this problem ?

Note: this problem exists for Excel too.

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