Microsoft Word

Word processing component of Office 2007.

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What works

program works fine. kinda slow.

page formatting didnt change

What does not

smart arts dont appear well and they cant be edited either. probably because the data for smart arts open in excel

Workarounds

What was not tested

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

unusable if u use smart arts

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	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan" (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jan 28 2020	5.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Gold	Hamed Heidari
Show	Denian 9.9 "Stretch" 32-bit.	Jun 20 2019	4.0.1	Yes	Yes	No	Silver	Joe
Show	Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu)	Oct 04 2018	3.0.2	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	Andres Rivas
Show	Manjaro Linux 17.0.2	Dec 06 2017	2.22	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	kuSwaNtoRo
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Jun 24 2017	2.10-staging	Yes	Yes		Gold	siyia

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
7156	Multiple apps need wingdings.ttf	NEW		View
14966	Cannot insert clip art in MS Word/Publisher in Office XP/2003	NEW		View
15241	Microsoft Office 2007: Cannot updated IME dictionary	NEW		View
19534	Office 2007 menu button loses focus	NEW		View
20171	Microsoft Word 2007 and 2010: vertical ruler has misplaced numbers	NEW		View
22458	Word 2007 & 2010: Impossible to insert symbol by clicking on its center	STAGED		View
23805	Word / Excel 2007: issues with maximalized/windowed switching on dual monitor	UNCONFIRMED		View
24289	Office Word 2007 : Drag from native apps, drop to word doesn't work	NEW		View
25239	"Network Places" freezes Word 2007	NEW		View
25509	Word 2007 Blog Post feature will not allow blog account registration.	NEW		View
29255	Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 & 2010 applications do not print OTF	NEW		View
30587	Office 2007/2010 apps (Word, Powerpoint) cannot be maximized after being unmaximized by window manager	NEW		View
37383	Office 2007/2010 - Submenus invisible on GNOME 3.14	UNCONFIRMED		View

HOWTO

(updated 2012-6-10)

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

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.

Window Resizing Issues

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:

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

Graphics Driver Bugs

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.