On 07/30/2007 02:35 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:19:37 -0700 > NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think it's probably time to start admitting that there are >> serious performance problems in opening excel spreadsheets: > > I wonder if this is an issue that's of actual importance. MS Excel's magical > mystery file format is not the native file format for OpenOffice and > accordingly OO must go through extra steps to import a foreign file that it > would not have to do if it used the native OpenDocument format. After all, it > does load, eventually. > > “The wonderful thing about a dancing bear is not how well he dances, but that > he dances at all.” > > The time that it takes MS Excel to load an OpenOffice spreadsheet is, after > all, infinite. > > Interestingly enough, though, I just loaded that file on my computer. > > It took OpenOffice 1minute 33seconds to open it. It took Gnumeric 6.3seconds > to > open the same file. I'm not sure that Gnumeric handled the macros correctly, > or at all. I just loaded the file and closed it immediately. > >
You don't mention your hardware or OS. I'd consider 10 minutes to open on a 2.2GHz 512Mb machine a very slow bear :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
