http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25599
--- Comment #2 from Jan Hoogenraad jan-winehq@h-i-s.nl 2010-12-26 07:29:23 CST --- Version = word 2000
Reverting to wine-1.1.33 (the version required to have excel run at any acceptable speed) did NOT solve this. On the other computer, this feature worked fine with an older Ubuntu version and wine-1.1.33. I suspect the installer did something different this time as my previous installation (on a wine-0.9 version).
The installer logs can be found at: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25598
I will try a fresh install via wine-1.1.33 later as part of the regression test.