The submenus work fine for me here. Can you try moving ~/.sversionrc and ~/.openoffice out of the way and restarting openoffice?
$ cd $ mv .sversionrc .sversionrc.1 $ mv .openoffice .openoffice.1 $ openoffice If it now works, there was a problem in your user profile. If it doesn't work, maybe there is a problem in your installation? Try these commands to check that no files have been changed: cd /; md5sum -c /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org*.md5sums cd /; md5sum -c /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-bin*.md5sums If all files are intact, you will see no ouptut from the commands. If you have turned on prelinking, you won't be able to do the check for openoffice.org-bin and I'd suggest you just try reinstalling the packages. Chris