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[Solved] Slow opening

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:55 pm
by Nifty
When I go to open OOO it is very slow whereas Excel is almost instant.

Any thoughts please.

Tks
Nev

Re: SLOW OPENING

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:18 pm
by ccornell
I am assuming you are talking about launching OpenOffice.org with an empty spreadsheet?

There are a few things you can do to tweak the OOo settings so that it loads faster (and this is documented on various sites all over the internet... for example here: http://www.zolved.com/synapse/view_cont ... _in_Ubuntu
These settings apply to all operating systems, not just Ubuntu.)

The basics (as outlined on the Zolved website) are...
Go to Tools > Options OpenOffice.org > Memory and:
- Reduce the number of Undo steps to a figure lower than 100. The suggestion is to use 20 or 30 steps.
- Under Graphics cache, set Use for OpenOffice.org to 128 MB (up from the original 6MB).
- Set Memory per object to 20MB (up from the default .5MB).
- Set the number of objects under Cache for inserted objects at 20.
- Check OpenOffice.org Quickstarter.

Go to Tools > Options OpenOffice.org > Java and:
- Uncheck Use a Java runtime environment (if you're not using Base wizards etc)

This should make a significant difference in the startup times for OpenOffice.org.

Re: SLOW OPENING

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:07 pm
by Nifty
Thankyou excellent - I will keep sellin OOO to my friends