[Bug 54628] New: Opening files in Microsoft Word/Excel/Office 2010 results in opening an empty document

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54628

Bug ID: 54628
           Summary: Opening files in Microsoft Word/Excel/Office 2010
                    results in opening an empty document
           Product: Wine
           Version: 8.0
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

When I double-click a MS Office file then Word/Excel/Office 2010 starts up with
an empty document. So the page/sheet is blank and it looks that the file
doesn't contains any data.

However, there is no problem with the documents, they are fine. Instead it
looks that there is a problem in the way how the files are opened. When the
corresponding Word/Excel/Office 2010 file is opened out from the program then
everything is okay and it is displayed correctly.

So this problem only happens when the Office 2010 file is opened by a double
click.

Long story short, there exist a trivial workaround by disabling the hardware
acceleration in Office 2010. Microsoft was so kind to provide the solution for
that problem here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/excel-opens-blan...

In the end it looks that this problem can happen in some circumstances also on
Windows. ;-)

For the record, this problem is present also on older Wine 7.x releases. So
this is not a new regression and I am unsure if this ever worked before.
(However, it took a while until I have found the workaround.)