Comment 5 for bug 237840

The problem appears to be in in the openoffice.org-gnome package. To get a working OO system I did this:

Remove all openoffice packages:-

sudo apt-get purge openoffice.org-*

Then go to Applications>Add/Remove and add 'OpenOffice.org Office Suite'

This will give a working OO although it does not have the gnome window style.

To break it again do this:-

sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-gnome

You can repeat the above to get a working system back.
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