Hi :) Try Gnumeric; http://www.gnumeric.org/download.html
It's a dedicated spreadsheet program with a tiny footprint that uses minimal resources, so it's faster, lighter and more robust than Excel or Calc. Many people find Gnumeric to be better than Calc or Excel for serious or hefty spreadsheets and/or for handling many more spreadsheets in a shorter time-frame. It can be installed alongside LibreOffice and/or MS Office. It uses the same format as LibreOffice natively so most spreadsheets can be bounced between the 2 programs quite happily. Part of the advantage of LibreOffice is that it fits well into a wider eco-system and co-operates well with a wider range of programs and suites allowing you to tailor individual machines to specific use-cases and yet still retain the ability to share files between different machines and different people using different OSes and programs. Regards from Tom ) On 5 April 2014 06:43, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/04/2014 07:44 PM, andrewH wrote: >> >> I am working with a data set that keeps causing my LibreOffice to freeze. >> I >> am pretty sure that this is only because it is big. It is a pipe-separated >> text from the US Economic Census imported into Calc, about 30 columns and >> around a million rows. (The actual data set is bigger, but Calc quits at a >> million-odd. The complete file is about 0.8 gig.) I suspect but can not >> prove that this is related to file handling somehow, e.g. breaking down >> during auto-saving. The first time I saved the data as a Calc file it took >> nearly an hour with the "soffice.bin *32" process running at 25 percent of >> CPU time and using about 825 meg of memory the entire time. (Not sure why >> this is showing up as a 32-bit version). And when Calc freezes, all the >> LibreOffice programs freeze. So I can't just switch to another file and >> noodle away while waiting. > > > It looks to me as though Calc cannot handle more than 1048576 rows of data, > > Do you have more rows than that? If yes, then I think that you cannot open > the file. > > If you have less than that, and, if you think that you are simply running > out of memory.... if you can figure out how to get the data to me, I can run > a test on a 64 bit version (running on Linux). My machine has 32 GB of > RAM... > > > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt > Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
