hi
Did you change ?your theme or font settings?
if so, revert back to old theme or font settings.
Here is another solution from
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=10183
Start Oo word processor.
Click on the tools menu (7th from left, 3rd from right in Oo 3.0 )
The last (bottom)option on the tools menu is options.
That will open a dialog box that you won't be able to read but in the
left pane just click down the options until you see
"Options-OpenOffice.org-View" in the dialog title bar.
At this stage you should see several check boxes in the right pane.
Uncheck all of them and then click the ok button at the bottom of the
dialog box.
You won't be able to read it but it is the leftmost of the bottons at
the bottom.
The dialog should close and your menus should be readable now.
