http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10356
--- Comment #2 from chrisl63@hotmail.com 2007-11-23 14:32:09 --- I am also having this problem with Wine 0.9.49 on Ubuntu 7.10. This is with a clean .wine folder and following the instructions on http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/09/running-ms-office-2003-under-linux-w...
I think there are two issues here, the first is the imm error, which freezes Excel whenever you change the cell. I copied the imm32.dll from my Windows install into the system32 folder and made it a (native,builtin) override, which fixed that problem. Unfortunately it also causes Word to not run.
The second problem is the ntdll error, which freezes Excel within a few seconds of actually entering something in a cell and changing to another cell. If you wait 60 seconds after that, it crashes. Using the ntdll from Windows doesn't help. I'm attaching a log with this error.