I have just installed Open Office 2.3.0 (never having used it before)
and am basically very impressed.
However one thing that is an issue is calculation speed vs. Excel. I
have a fairy large (7.8MB) Excel spreadsheet, some thousands of lines.
In Excel it loads pretty much instantly. In Open Office Calc it (a)
loads slower, but worse (b) is very slow to calculate as part of the
load. If it is then saved as an Open Office native format spreadsheet,
it loads and calculates a bit faster (file size drops dramatically), but
is still probably an order of magnitude slower than Excel.
The Excel version is pretty old - Office '97.
Is this normal? Is there anything I can do about it?
