I am using Openoffice 2 and I don't even know how to characterize my problem. As you will see, I am a novice. I have been happily typing and saving documents in openoffice. All of a sudden, when I am on a document or blank page, I began to get a whole bunch of stuff across the top of the page. It uses up a good deal of space that was just part of my document before. Nothing I do can make it go away. It just seems there to stay. I don't know how it got there. Here's what it looks like:
On the left hand side is a vertical list: New Theme Backgrounds Rulers Sounds My Theme etc., etc. On the first row across the top is an address, which changes depending on what icons I hit: e.g., "c:///C?/Programfiles/openoffice.org2.01/share/gallery/etc. etc. Below this row are the various backgrounds, bullets, symbols, musical notes, etc. depending on which list butten I click. This whole thing takes up two to three inches of my document space. I don't want it. I don't need it. Can anyone tell me how to get this off my screen??? If I am not writing to the write place for info, can you direct me to the place that could help me? Thank you, whoever you are. rarnold2000