Comments on: Is Open Office too slow to be usable?

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:51:31 +0000

If you go to ‘memory’ in the options dialogue and increase the memory allocated, you can see vastly faster startup times with OO.o.

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:32:33 +0000

I’ve got a 600 word blog almost done while waiting for a 70 page OpenOffice document to do it’s business. I’m likely to go purchase the latest version of MS Office later today.

Not real happy here.

My hunch is that OpenOffice works fine for short documents with no images or tables.

Why I should have the time to look up “Why OpenOffice is so slow” while trying to format my OpenOffice document is beyond me.

It’s the slowest thing on my laptop… which I’ve used for professional C++ desktop application development in the past. Has the full version of Visual Studio on it, which runs fine.

By: Grumpy

Grumpy — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:57:30 +0000

apparently you need such a powerful comp to run it fast :P

By: BigEdinTX

BigEdinTX — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:06:03 +0000

I found this thread because OpenOffice moves like a slug and I wanted to know why.
I don't like MS products and wanted to move elsewhere, but OpenOffice, the latest download, is much slower in every way, than WORD97.
I can't bear it anymore.
Maybe I will go and try Google Docs after having an absolute hair raising and stupefying experience with Google Sites.

Oh the tribulation.

By: MC

MC — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:47:34 +0000

YES, I have a new Thinkpad laptop and Open Office is way to slow — even after it’s open, switching to the window is slow. I’m switching to google docs as much as possible which runs much more smoothly for me.

By: XtremeBear

XtremeBear — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:27:15 +0000

BTW M$ Office is preloaded @ startup

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:36:07 +0000

I downloaded OpenOffice on my HP Pavillion laptop with Vista. The first file I tried to open was a calc document I downloaded from another machine. It took forever to open the sheet. I saved it to the HP, and it still opened very slowly. Then I tried something else. I opened a blank calc sheet, filled in one cell, and saved it. Then I opened it, and it opened quickly. Then I reopened the downloaded sheet (still very slowly), and pasted its contents into the new sheet I had originated on the HP. Then I opened the new sheet, and it was quick. The old sheet remained very slow to open, but the new sheet was as quick or quicker than Excel opening. Needless to say, I deleted the imported sheet and kept the one originated and saved on the HP. Vista with my HP likes and is quick and normal with calc sheets originated and saved on the machine, and is slow with downloaded sheets. I’m not smart enough to know why, but he workaround may be a way to overcome the problem.

By: jas

jas — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:17:51 +0000

P.S.
I have just installed 2.4 of OOffice.
After installing I opened all apps, quickstarter off.
Rebooted.
Opened Writer (After the computer settled--antivirus, startup programs finished..etc)
ooWriter took 35 seconds to open, msword 7 second.
I, closed, reopened....writer 3 seconds, word 3 seconds. I also disabled the splash screen to see if that would help (soffice.ini, logo=0) verdict still out.

By: jas

jas — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:55:02 +0000

I have used OpenOffice and MSOFFICE both for years, and the biggest complaint is the slowness opening, if you have OOffice quickstart running it is faster, but I am not fond of having more running than the minimum. I have installed it on my mother’s computer and that was her first complaint, it was so slow starting….That being said, I use OpenOffice as my primary suite, I have MS office because we use it work mostly the Excel program because we use a a lot of odbc’s to sql servers.

By: XtremeBear

XtremeBear — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:32:44 +0000

oo I forgot to add....
please add this into the right spot

My GUI is KDE 3.1.4