Thanks. I created a prefix but when I launched MS Word, I got an error message: "IOPL not enabled". Code: $ WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-mso/ wine "/home/charles/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12/WINWORD.EXE" fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC80.CRT" (8.0.50608.0) fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 1 (nil) 0 fixme:msvcrt:_controlfp_s ((nil) 65536 196608) semi-stub fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC80.CRT" (8.0.50608.0) fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC80.CRT" (8.0.50608.0) fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 1 (nil) 0 fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 1 (nil) 0