Microsoft PowerPoint

What works

Nearly everything works: Loading presentations Creating text Creating graphics Cutting/Pasting images between Powerpoint and gimp (and other Linux applications) Displaying the presentation Exporting as PDF/XPS with add-on from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=7

What does not

When resizing and editing shapes, the screen becomes black, this makes it difficult to see what you are doing (but it is still usable though). Note: this bug is fixed in Wine 1.5.4 (I have just updated, I will make another post as soon as I have fully tested it).

Workarounds

What was not tested

Embedded videos Cliparts

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

* I changed the following DLL overrides (as recommended in previous posts): riched20(native) * I am using it on a regular basis for my professional presentations and did not encounter any problem. I could also load my previous presentations flawlessly. * I also installed additional fonts using 'winetricks'

Follow the directions in the Microsoft Office (installer only) entry to install. ­

• ­Do not change the Windows version to anything higher than XP or you will run into bug 29788.
  
• ­­­­­­­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.  Do not set the override globally unless you have Office installed in a separate wineprefix.
  
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• The default bullet characters are from Wingdings. If you want them to look the same as on Windows, install that font.
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• For mp3 sound to play out of the box, you must have 32 bit libmpg123 installed on your system and Wine must have been compiled with mp3 support. Not all distro packages provide this. ­The workaround for lack of winemp3.acm is to use the codec installed by WMP9,  l3cod­eca.acm. Copy l3codeca.acm to the wineprefix's /windows/system32 directory (or use winetricks to install WMP9), then create a symlink to it named winemp3.acm in ­the same directory. ­
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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 Powerpoint 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