Microsoft Word

What works

Typing, fonts, ribbon functions, footnotes, etc.

What does not

Chinese characters cannot be typed into Word by ibus or scim. 

Opening files with Asian language characters inside sometimes results in unreadable text.

Copying and pasting Chinese characters from OOo to Word did not work, but it did work when copying from Firefox, so there are possibly some encoding issues.

When switching between other programs, Word seems to freeze up sometimes.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Printing
Updating
Integration with other Office software.
Many many other features.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

For those working only in English, or possibly other European languages, Word 2007 may deserve a Silver or higher rating. However, language support issues make it near to unusable for those working in Asian languages.

(updated 2012-6-10)

Follow the instructions in the entry for Microsoft Office (installer only) for installing. ­

• Leave the Windows version set to the default of Windows XP. 
• If using 64 bit Wine, you must create a pure 32 bit wineprefix with WINEARCH=win32.
  
• Set riched20 to native (needed for correct display of some dialogs) after installing. There is no need to copy the dll, as Office 2007 installs its own versions, but the overrides must be set in winecfg in order for Wine to use them.  These overrides should not be set globally unless Office is installed in a separate wineprefix.
• The default bullet characters are from Wingdings. If you want them to look the same as on Windows, install that font.
  

Workarounds for bugs 23805 and 30587:

Solution 1: Run in an emulated virtual desktop. This is probably the easiest solution for most users.

Solution 2: Uncheck "Allow the window manager to control the windows" in winecfg. The downside is that Word will no longer show up in the taskbar.

Solution 3: (KDE users only) In System Settings, Window Behavior, do the following:

1. Select Window Rules
2. Click "New..." to create a new Window Rules
3. Enter the description
4. Window Class: Regular Expression: value *\b(winword.exe|excel.exe|powerpnt.exe)\b.*
5. Check "Match whole window class"
6. Check on tab "Size & Position"
7. Check "Full screen": value Force, No
8. Check "Ignore Requested Geometry": value Force, Yes
9. Click Okay
   

The following are not Wine bugs, but are graphics driver bugs exposed by Wine and known to affect Office 2007:

185.xx.xx nVidia

X will crash when scrolling a document in Word 2007 when using a driver in this series.  Upgrade to 195.xx.xx or later. 

xf86-video-intel 2.12.0 through 2.15.0

GUI controls are painted black: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30157   Upgrade to 2.16.0 or later.