I'm forced to use Office for Mac as well, but it's not as good as the Windows version with many features missing or relocated making editing of documents created in Windows difficult as well. I just tried again (by copying the pre-installed Wine prefix from the crossover install) and got this log if it helps: http://pastebin.com/WKwN7mi3 Trying to run Word brings up the configuration window which crashes when attempting to reboot: [Image: http://i.imgur.com/fBfZI.png ] Any idea what patches Crossover did to Wine, if they are public patches that could be manually applied or proprietary, or any other reason Mac Wine is different to linux Wine (could winbind be the problem causing this)? I don't currently own a CrossOver license, just used the trial, so "just using CrossOver" in the meantime isn't really an option - i'd rather fix the problem in Wine if it is at all possible.