I decided to take a step back today and figure out what is really going on behind the scenes while running Microsoft Office 2007. I downloaded Process Viewer 5.2.15.1 (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=5178) and loaded that up took note of dlls operating on a clean install of Windows XP within VirtualBox. I then fired up Word 2007 and then right clicked on WINWORD.EXE and viewed all of the DLLs running associated to it. Well it turns out I didn't learn too much more then what I already knew, but it did clarify a lot of what I already knew. I then started to play around with DLL overrides to try to get things running a little more smoothly. I am still not there yet, but I think I am making some good progress. Enclosed is a happy snap. [Image: http://christoff.exofire.net/wine/WINWORD_DLLS.png ]