Openoffice Menu Fonts

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> The fonts for the menus and dialog boxes and buttons etc are this
> extremely weird looking font. I have had a bit of a look around the
> menus to try to find where this might be changed but I can't find
> anything (the almost unreadable menus don't help).

Openoffice Menu Fonts are sometimes to small on high resolution displays. Open the Tool -> Options Menu and enter:

Openoffice.org-Fonts Under Font: type(!) new fontname: Andale Sans UI Under Replace with: select the font you like (Verdana, Helvetica, …)
Openoffice.org-Accessibility Deselect: Use system font for user interface
Openoffice.org-View Scale: Set to 110 or more

The official Openoffice fontguide

The official Openoffice fontguide is on http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html

Table of Contents

Font antialiasing does not work
Disable antialiased fonts
Antialiased fonts are gone on second and forthcoming start of OpenOffice.org application
Bad quality of screen font rasterization
Adding TrueType or Type1 fonts to OpenOffice.org
Application crashes
Bad font appearance in PDF documents
User interface font looks garbled
Changing the user interface font
Reporting a font related bug

documented on: 2004.08.20