This is something that's been bugging me for quite some time.
I'm attaching a screenshot of the issue as seen in Microsoft Office Word 2007.
While it doesn't get in the way when it's like this, I've had to uninstall other apps as the black artefacts affected usability.
Here is the same issue in Excel 2007.
Setup
I'm running 32-bit Ubuntu 10.10, with an Intel 945 chipset.
Best Answer
Judging from Word 2007's AppDB page this looks more to be a graphics driver bug
Reverting to an older driver is not really practical (it's possible but it's a very manual process). That bug report suggests a registry work-around. Either browse to the right location in
regedit
or save this as a.reg
file and run it throughregedit
However, there is at least one person who says this makes things worse. But that bug report is where you want to track the issue. Wine have washed their hands of it.