Comment 40 for bug 1064962

Apologies - I think my remarks about the visibility of the menus hold true, but I am experiencing cases where a previously existing document (opened as the FIRST document from within the LO 'White Window' ), displays menus which although VISIBLE, do not FUNCTION... The workaround MAY be to open a blank document in the first instance, THEN open an existing one in any manner you choose.

@Lance:
Even where the menus are gone to pot, I have had no difficulty simply saving my changes using Ctrl+S. That should be much less cumbersome than creating new documents all the time.

I really hate to moan, but I cannot be alone in finding this excruciatingly embarrasing (never mind tedious)... I used to recommend Ubuntu - but now I cannot. For over a year or more there have been major useability problems in this core application, all concerning LO integration with Unity and Global menus. This particular problem was immediately apparent on the Quantal Live CD final release; however, I went ahead an installed it, believing that (after so many problems in Oneiric and Precise) there must be an update waiting in the repos - but there wasn't, as we now realise. I know it's free software, I am deeply grateful to all the programmers and I am happy to make my donation to Canonical, but it beggars belief that time could be wasted coding for Amazon shopping (for heaven's sake!), leaving this crucially important application in such a poor state. Just my 2p of rant. Sorry, but it's finally beginning to get to me...