Comment 2 for bug 1050718

scratch, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.

Could you please provide a screen recording via the package recordmydesktop?

As well, is this problem document dependent? If so, could you please provide the document that this problem occurs in?

This is unreproducible in Xubuntu.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu quantal (development branch)
Release: 12.10

apt-cache policy abiword
abiword:
  Installed: 2.9.2+svn20120603-6
  Candidate: 2.9.2+svn20120603-6
  Version table:
 *** 2.9.2+svn20120603-6 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status