speeding up OpenOffice?

[doctormo at gmail.com (Martin Owens)]

You can use AbiWord or the KOffice suite which is installable through
synaptic.

I would recommend upgrading the RAM to 512MB in order to help with larger
programs anyway but OpenOffice is not known to be kind to slow machines.

Best Regards, Martin Owens

On 17/01/07, Seth Gordon <sethg at ropine.com> wrote:
>
> My wife routinely curses OpenOffice, because of the time it takes to
> load and the way it brings the rest of her system to a screeching halt.
> (This is an Inspiron 1100 with a 2.4GHz Celeron and 256 MB of RAM
> running Ubuntu "Dapper Drake".)  Is there some trick, some
> --disable-cruft option that I can set when recompiling the whole thing,
> that would make the experience less painful for her?  Is there a
> lighter-weight word processor that is good at reading and writing the MS
> Word files that the rest of the universe insists on sending to her?  (In
> practice, she's only using that part of OO; I already installed gnumeric
> so she doesn't have to deal with the OpenOffice spreadsheet program.)
>
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