[ Thanks to Brendan Scott for this
link. ]
“Someone at OOo decided that context sensitivity of
toolbars was a good idea. I disagree (and have lodged bug reports),
but the OOo people prefer to agree to disagree on this issue. What
happens with context senstivity is that when OOo senses you are
doing something which might need a specific toolbar, it pops it up
for you. Equally, if it thinks you aren’t it will remove that
toolbar for you (how kind).“So imagine this situation: you have a document which includes
some numbering. You’d like to add numbering to a currently
unnumbered paragraph. So, you click on the paragraph and then go up
to the numbering toolbar. In the split second it’s taken you to
click and move, OOo has realised you’ve just clicked on an
unnumbered paragraph – so you mustn’t want the numbering any
more. Just as you’re about to click the button on the numbering
toolbar to add numbering, ‘poof!’ it disappears.”