I've had a problem with opening existing documents for some time now, but attributed the problem to the number of upgrades my computer has been through. However last week I installed a copy of Ubuntu Maverick and KDE3.5 on a freshly-wiped machine, and I'm still having the same problems. Hopefully someone can help? I have a laptop running ubuntu karmic, and Office 2003 runs fine from that machine, and is able to open all of these documents without problems. - Installed ubuntu maverick 32-bit - Installed Office 2003 Pro (the same CD used to install on the previous Windows platform, where the required documents were created) Unable to open pre-existing .doc files. If a document did try to open, it would immediately crash with a Windows error report. Other documents completely crashed Word/wine without even an error. - Installed the wine repo from ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa - Upgraded to wine1.3 and winetricks Still unable to open documents. Now they all crash Word/wine without any errors. - Ran winecfg and set richedit20.dll, richedit32.dll & msxml3.dll as navite (Windows) - installed riched30 through winetricks Attempting to open any documents results in Word crashing with a Windows error report, then trying to re-launch Word and recover the crashed document. Note that I can open and use Word by itself without any problems, but I cannot open any saved documents. At this point I attempted to reinstall/repair Office 2003. This did not change anything. I ran winword.exe from CLI and captured the following when I tried to open a document... Code: $ wine WINWORD.EXE fixme:ole:CoInitializeSecurity (0x413ea8,-1,(nil),(nil),1,3,(nil),72,(nil)) - stub! err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {24e669e1-e90f-4595-a012-b0fd3ccc5c5a} not registered err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {24e669e1-e90f-4595-a012-b0fd3ccc5c5a} could be created for context 0x1 fixme:storage:Storage_ConstructTransacted Unimplemented flags 110022 fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented. fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_DeviceCapabilities DC_BINADJUST: stub. fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_DeviceCapabilities DC_BINADJUST: stub. fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_DeviceCapabilities DC_BINADJUST: stub. fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_ExtEscape QUERYESCSUPPORT(25) - not supported. fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_DeviceCapabilities DC_BINADJUST: stub. fixme:msctf:ThreadMgrSource_AdviseSink (0x1e0738) Unhandled Sink: {6f77c993-d2b1-446e-853e-5912efc8a286} fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnLayoutChange STUB:(0x1e73d8) fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnLayoutChange STUB:(0x1e73d8) fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnLockGranted OnLockGranted called for something other than an EditSession fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_DeviceCapabilities DC_BINADJUST: stub. fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnStartEditTransaction STUB:(0x1e73d8) fixme:shell:SHGetFileInfoW SHGFI_OVERLAYINDEX unhandled fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnEndEditTransaction STUB:(0x1e73d8) fixme:shell:SHGetFileInfoW SHGFI_OVERLAYINDEX unhandled fixme:shell:IShellView_fnSaveViewState (0x1e8140) stub fixme:shell:IShellView_fnSaveViewState (0xcda4a8) stub fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnStartEditTransaction STUB:(0x1e73d8) fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_DeviceCapabilities DC_BINADJUST: stub. fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnLayoutChange STUB:(0x2194b8) fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnLayoutChange STUB:(0x2194b8) fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnLayoutChange STUB:(0x2194b8) fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnLayoutChange STUB:(0x1e73d8) fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnLockGranted OnLockGranted called for something other than an EditSession fixme:imm:ImmDisableIME (-1): stub fixme:thread:NtQueryInformationThread Cannot get kerneltime or usertime of other threads fixme:thread:NtQueryInformationThread info class 9 not supported yet fixme:thread:NtQueryInformationThread info class 9 not supported yet fixme:thread:NtQueryInformationThread info class 9 not supported yet fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW ((null),L"Microsoft Office 11"): stub fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x000003e8,(nil),0x0008,0x000000ee,0x3009a1b4,0x4cc4c0): stub err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"winword.exe" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"11.0.6568.0" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"42e178a5" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"winword.exe" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"11.0.6568.0" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"42e178a5" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"0" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"00068a09" fixme:advapi:DeregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub