On 10/27/05, Robin Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CPHennessy wrote: > > On Wed October 26 2005 16:22, Bryce Schober wrote: > > > >>On 10/26/05, Jim Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>>Hello All: > > >>>Is there a trick to working with large files in calc? The same > >>>spreadsheet opens and saves in a few seconds with excel and gnumeric. > >> > >>Apparently not. I've had similar problems (see > >>http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1905 ), and they don't > >>seem to care much. > > > > > >>I guess our usage doesn't fit the profile of the > >>users that they care about... > > > > Not true. There are a few solutions which are being discussed and tested, > > but > > it is not a trivial problem. The solution would also help ALL users open > > their docs quicker not just large docs. > > > > > > After reading this thread, I did some test on my machine and this is > an issue. I noticed that some sheets that I work on took time to save > but didn't really affect productivity. Yesterday during my tests, the > autosave kicked in. My test file took 11 minutes to save. 11 minutes > that prevented me from working on the spreadsheet. > > I am going to add my comments to the bug listed above as this is an > issue for usage in larger organization. I am just setting up a > spreadsheet that would be larger than my test one. > > This is in Linux so the usage of Excel is not an option. > -- > Robin Laing
Could you compare to Gnumeric on linux? The original post mentioned that gnumeric provided performance similar to excel. -- Bryce Schober --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
