Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)
What works
Creating, saving, editing, and playing a basic presentation. Animation, including built-in sound effects (but not inserted sound files). Inserting symbols, shapes, smart art, pictures from files.
What does not
Clipart organizer. Inserting charts, movies, sound. Thesaurus. Help. Screen goes black when inserting or moving objects, making it difficult to position them.
What was not tested
Protect presentation, macros.
Additional Comments
Tested version: Office 2007 Enterprise
To work around bug 19797, rotate text using Text direction=>More options=>3D rotation. Clipart can be inserted as a picture from a file rather than using the clipart organizer, however, you have to know exactly which file you want.
Giving it a bronze because of difficulties with clipart and positioning graphics and inability to insert movie or sound files.
In order to run Powerpoint 2007, you must set riched20.dll to (native) in winecfg. Note that you do not have to copy the dll from a Windows partition or use winetricks to install it. Office 2007 installs its own version of richedit in a private directory, but Wine will not use it unless you set the override.
The default bullet characters are from Wingdings. If you want them to look the same as on Windows, install that font.
Questions?
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Drawing Arrows
by osfight.de on Friday January 29th 2010, 14:32
I am using Office 2007 and newest wine 1.1.37 and cannot draw form / arrows in Powerpoint. Clicking on the arrow symbol black out the editor without any response. Change the slides back and force brings back the normal editor. I would really appreciate if this is solvable...
Any idea?
I changed already to rich20 native dll in winecfg.
