In openoffice if one day you find more the shadow of an icon (the menus and toolbars for instance) do not despair. Probably the default set of icons for OpenOffice is not installed, and having changed its theme or icon set our suite of programs for the office was sad and stripped of their dignity icons.

If you are on Ubuntu (but the concept also applies to other distros) you can retrieve the package openoffice.org-style-default through Synaptic or from the terminal:

sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-style-default

Once this is done will return your icons in place, possibly you can configure the automatic view cos:: Start openoffice, revenue in the tools menu -> options -> view, under the symbol size and style puts both cases automatically.

Install Microsoft fonts in OpenOffice and improve the visual aspect obtained by opening documents created in Microsoft Office is easy and useful. If the document ms office fonts were used to Windows, OpenOffice, if you do not have to replace them with generic fonts, and sometimes the appearance of the document degrades terribly well in terms of formatting.

The procedure and 'very simple, and integrated in the OOo 2.2 and above.

1. Open for OOo Writer
2. File
3. Guided Procedures
4. Install fonts from the Web
5. Select your language
6. In the window that appears press the button: Start FontOOo
7. In the window that appears: Next>>
8. Press: Retrieve list (just wait a few minutes, OOo seems very slow at this stage)
9. In the first list select fonts according to your desired taste
10. Next>>
11. Repeat the selection of fonts
12. Next>>
13. Repeat the selection of fonts and you exclude the "Chinese" where there used
14. Next>>
15. The download may take several minutes during which OpenOffice may seem blocked.