I wouldn't be surprised if Excel on the same machine (or a comparable machine) opens the same document in less than 5 seconds. I have also tried to open big Excel files with OpenOffice. About 10-100 times longer isn't unusual, compared to Excel. The "slowness" is one of the few things I really hate with OpenOffice.org.
And the text in the status row while opening a big file, something like "adapting row heights". Why is it doing that at all? And what does it mean? Isn't there information about row heights in the file itself so it just can read the damned file and make the rows as heigh as the file says? And it seems like it does this for all of the 65536 rows, not only the rows that are going to be displayed... I have probably misunderstood the whole thing about what it really does when it opens the file, at least I really hope so, since that indicates that there is a limit for how stupid a program can be... So: 1. I really hope something will be done soon to make OpenOffice at least 20 times faster. Then its speed is at least decent. 2. I also hope that you can convince your school to develop a database instead of that ridiculously big spreadsheet. As someone else said, driving nails with screwdrivers is not a good idea, even if Calc is made 100 times faster than today. Johnny Rosenberg 2007/9/1, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Christian Einfeldt wrote: > > > But the teachers will probably not accept a box that takes even 110 > seconds > > to load this spreadsheet, and they will get a negative impression of > FOSS, > > which might actually set us back, rather than move us forward. > > How long does it take to load it in Excel? Is that 110 secs. from > clicking on the icon or from an open Excel or OO? > > Also, since that principal is so short of cash, you'd think she'd jump > at the change to save some. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
