Hi :)
I guess you mean LibreOffice rather than OpenOffice?  

Before opening the file try changing the "memory" settings in LibreOffice
Tools - Options - Advanced (or might be "Memory" straight-away)
Boost all these by quite a lot.  If you have over 1Gb of Ram then you could 
easily boost them so that files can have lots of images over 10-15Mb each.  The 
file might open faster now.  


As people keep pointing out the formats that end in X are MS proprietary 
formats and change a bit with each release of MS Office.  it's far better to 
get people to use the older formats that don't have an X on the end or FAR 
better is to use Ods.  Have you tried opening the file in a different version 
of MS Office?  if it was fast in MSO 2007 is it still fast in MSO 2010?  

The file probably contains tons of heavy images or something.  We can have a 
sneaky look without even opening the file! :)  Without opening the XlsX can you 
just 
1.  create a copy of it
2.  rename the copy so instead of being .XlsX it's .Zip
3.  double-click the zip-file to open it
You will see various folders and one should be "images", "photos", "pictures" 
or something like that.  There's only about 4 folders so you could have a look 
in each one quite quickly.  When you find the images you can probably see their 
sizes.  Are any close to 1Mb or over?  I am not sure but i think you can drag 
them out of the zip-file's folder and then use Gimp to scale them and then put 
them back in top replace the heavier versions.  If it works the copy of the 
file should now open faster.  


On the other hand it might be the file contains some bad macros trying to 
connect with things.  I don't know much about macros or if they would slow the 
thing down but malware has often been spread by MS macros or the macros 
themselves have been malware and just opening the file has infected machines.  
Many places block macros nowadays.  LibreOffice uses different languages for 
it's macros and so far i've not heard of any containing malware.  

Good luck with this!  Hopefully someone else here might be more helpful than me!
Regards from 
Tom :)  




________________________________
 From: Satish Srivastava <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 
Sent: Saturday, 31 August 2013, 8:05
Subject: [libreoffice-users] .xlsx file open very slow in OO
 

Dear Friends,

When i am opening .xlsx file in OO it is taking long time to open in every
time.
Why this happen in OO if here some need in changes in configuration So
please suggest me. this file is open very quickly in MSO.


*Thanks & regards*
Satish Srivastava
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