I just recently installed Office 365 Home Premium on Windows 7 that is running in VMWare on a Mac.
Unfortunately the Ribbon and other graphics are entirely black.
This is my Word start screen – not entirely useful. I can only see the tooltip for the hovered template.
I contacted Microsoft Support for help, but unfortunately they don’t support Windows in a virtual environment.
To solve the problem you can deactivate 3D graphics acceleration for the virtual machine:
- Shut down your virtual machine.
- Select the virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Library window.
- Click Settings.
- Click Display in System Settings (top-right icon in my current version 5.)
- Toggle Accelerate 3D graphics to OFF.
I still sometimes have a black box in the area where the mouse is placed, and some buttons flicker, but all in all it is running well.