First, never run wine (or winetricks) as sudo/root. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-96bebfa287b4288974de0df23351f278b0d41014 Second, Office 2007 does not need any tweaks or overrides to install in recent versions of Wine. Delete your ~/.wine and run the Office 2007 installer as a normal user. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=4992