On 6/8/07, Stephan M. February <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello
I've gotten quite fed-up with OpenOffice at this point. My problem: I get spreadsheets
with pricelists from my suppliers in MS Excel format. Opening these in OpenOffice can
easily grind on for five minutes, and end up consuming well over 200Mb of RAM. A test to
try and save this .xls as an .ods to "clean it up", resulted in 100% CPU
utilisation and 800Mb of RAM being eaten before I xkilled the process.
I'm now using Gnumeric, which is *so* unbelievably snappy compared to
OpenOffice. Anyone faced this same problem ?
Cheers
Stephan
I've had the same problem when reading in .xls files with lots of
plots (charts). On opening the file, OO will just show a status bar
saying "calculating" for a few minutes before finally displaying the
file. Even then the charts are still rendered incorrectly. Haven't
tried this using Gnumeric (at work, am using both OO and MS office
under Windows)
In fairness, I doubt this happens if using ODF or native format. Will
have to give this a try some time.
In general, I find that OO Writer's compatibility with .doc is far
better than Calc's compatibility with .xls.
my $.02,
Kerwin
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