Hello, I am new to wine altogether and find myself experiencing this same problem. I've read through this posting and taken all the advice into account...My install of Office is clean, and I selected to ONLY install word. Also I do not have winetricks installed (or know where to install it from, so I'm glad it's not needed). Terminal output: root@walt-laptop:~# wine '/home/walt/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12/WINWORD.EXE' fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 1 (nil) 0 fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 1 (nil) 0 fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 1 (nil) 0 fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 1 (nil) 0 fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub! fixme:mscoree:GetVersionFromProcess (0xffffffff, 0x33be88, 30, (nil)): stub fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 1 (nil) 0 fixme:imm:ImmDisableIME (-1): stub fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 1 (nil) 0 fixme:ver:RtlGetProductInfo (6,1,0,0,0x33fc74): stub fixme:dbghelp:MiniDumpWriteDump NIY MiniDumpWithDataSegs fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW ((null),L"Microsoft Office 12 Diagnostics"): stub fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0004,0x0000,0x000000c9,(nil),0x0000,0x00000000,0x4e4000,(nil)): stub fixme:advapi:DeregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub fixme:advapi:OpenEventLogW ((null),L"Application") stub fixme:advapi:CloseEventLog (0xcafe4242) stub fixme:advapi:OpenEventLogW ((null),L"System") stub fixme:advapi:CloseEventLog (0xcafe4242) stub fixme:ole:CoInitializeSecurity ((nil),-1,(nil),(nil),0,3,(nil),0,(nil)) - stub! fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW ((null),L"Microsoft Office 12 Diagnostics"): stub fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0004,0x0000,0x000000d5,(nil),0x0000,0x00000000,0x4e4000,(nil)): stub fixme:advapi:DeregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub fixme:advapi:OpenEventLogW ((null),L"Microsoft Office 12 Sessions") stub fixme:advapi:ReadEventLogW (0xcafe4242,0x00000009,0x00000000,0x810000,0x0007d000,0x33fd64,0x33fd6c) stub fixme:advapi:CloseEventLog (0xcafe4242) stub fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW ((null),L"Microsoft Office 12 Diagnostics"): stub fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x00000140,(nil),0x0002,0x00000000,0x529010,(nil)): stub err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"2kgl" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"N/A" fixme:advapi:DeregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW ((null),L"Microsoft Office 12 Diagnostics"): stub fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0004,0x0000,0x000000cd,(nil),0x0000,0x00000000,0x4e4000,(nil)): stub fixme:advapi:DeregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW ((null),L"Microsoft Office 12 Diagnostics"): stub fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0004,0x0000,0x000003e7,(nil),0x0000,0x00000000,0x4e4000,(nil)): stub fixme:advapi:DeregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub fixme:reg:GetNativeSystemInfo (0x33fd7c) using GetSystemInfo() fixme:ver:RtlGetProductInfo (6,1,0,0,0x33fc6c): stub fixme:netapi32:NetGetJoinInformation Stub (null) 0x33fda4 0x33fd98 fixme:reg:GetNativeSystemInfo (0x33fbfc) using GetSystemInfo() fixme:ver:RtlGetProductInfo (6,1,0,0,0x33faec): stub fixme:netapi32:NetGetJoinInformation Stub (null) 0x33fc24 0x33fc18 wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address (nil) (thread 0009), starting debugger...