I'm also having this problem, and agree it is extremely annoying. It's the main reason I don't use Abiword; it doesn't have any option to turn off field shading. Now I have to put up with it in OOWriter too. This is going to be a major turn off over anyone contemplating moving from Windows/Word to a Linux word processor.
My question is: Is this a problem with Ubuntu's compilation of OpenOffice 2.3, or an upstream problem? I asked if someone would confirm this bug in the freenode openoffice.org formum, but nobody ever seems to reply to questions in there. I hope it's just an Ubuntu problem, because the OOO responds VERY, VERY SLOWLY to bug reports. I reported an OOCalc bug 10 months ago, and someone from OO just got around to confirming it and assigning it "new" instead of unconfirmed last month! -- Unable to disable field shadings https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/134415 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
