This happens to me, too. Rendering Open Office effectively useless for a production environment.
Steps to reproduce bug: Open a *.doc file. Click: Format --> Paragraph. Wait forever. Force Quit. Try again. Install AbiWord as a workaround. Using: Openoffice.org-core 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5, Mon Oct 15 Ubuntu 7.10 -- Open Office 2.3 Writer crashes whenever I click on the paragraph feature https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154437 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