OpenOffice sans Icons?

At the outset I did not realise what was wrong with my OpenOffice.  It looked somehow strange to me, but I did not immediately click what was amiss.  I was a bit unsettled, because it has been awhile since I worked on a Linux desktop, so I ascribed my unease to that.  Eventually it penetrated, though ... there are no icons in my OpenOffice toolbars!

I muddled through the text-only toolbars for weeks, every now and then feebly trying to find a solution.  Then the day arrived that I decided 'enough is enough'.

Now, I may be a perpetual newbie, but I do know about setting preferences and customising different areas of my desktop environment.  I immediately selected 'tools' and then 'options'.  I went to 'view' in the tree on the left looking for something obvious that has to be set.  There I found an item 'Show icons in menus', but it was already selected.  I unselected and reselected it (as if that would convince the computer or application of anything!) and then had a look - no luck.  I then shut down OpenOffice, hoping it would 'accept' the change at start-up.  Still no luck ... That item had nothing to do with toolbar icons in any case, but I am a newbie and was desperate!

Having been beaten into submission and apathy by computers many times in my life, I skulked off and licked my wounds for another few days.

Then I remembered that one can customise your toolbars, so I confidently proceeded to 'view', then 'toolbars'  and eventually 'customise'.  There I clicked on 'modify' and 'change icon', whereupon OpenOffice crashed spectacularly!

This time I 'plukked moer' (got angry) and, luckily, reached for Google.  A few minutes later I had icons in my toolbars!

The Ubuntu Feisty installation I used, did not install the icons with OpenOffice.  That explained their absence and also the crash, when I asked OpenOffice to use them.

I simply went to Synaptic Package Manager (apparently my friend!), selected all the 'openoffice.org-style-xxxx' packages I could see and installed them.


Voila!!!  I can now brag with a whole selection of icons on my toolbars in OpenOffice ... AND I can change them!!