I have always had luck in fixing Open Office by doing a complete removal then a reinstall. It would be nice to know what broke, but it is almost a guaranteed fix by uninstall/reinstall.
Make sure you get the application from the repositories so any dependencies are taken care of... SYSTEM>ADMINISTRATION>SYNAPTIC PACKAGE MANAGER BTW: Uninstall/reinstall fixes itself in Windows as well as Linux. On Feb 11, 10:07 pm, jack <[email protected]> wrote: > I am new to Ubuntu and have just installed 8.10. I have installed the > Kubuntu desktop as well. > > When I load Open Office word processing, all the menu items (File, > Insert, Edit, Tools etc) are missing as are the contents of the pull > down menus. > > This problem also occurs in Kile (a LaTeX editor), K3b, Amarok and > Muse where the top menu items are OK but the pull down menus are > blank. > > I believe I must be missing a library item somewhere (A piece of Qt > perhaps?) but I don't know how to check this. I would hate to > reinstall the whole system. > > Another clue? I loaded the Xubuntu desktop and the menus all show up > correctly in this mode! > > Any suggestions would be much appreciated. > > Best, > Jack --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ubuntu Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
