How to speed up starting OpenOffice doc

[satimis]

Hi folks,

RH9
KDE 3.1-10 RedHat
OOo1.1

It takes quite long time to start a .doc while clicking the file on "Konqueror"(/home/user) on KDE desktop. Besides most time it starts 2 (two) documents simultaneously, a blank document and the document which you evoke to read. I have to close the blank document later.

Kindly advise how to fix this problem and improve the speed in starting a document.

Thanks in advance.

B.R.
satimis

[hard candy]

There was a thread in "How I Did it" on speeding up Open Office.
Open Writer, open Tools, open Options. Go to Memory, click on it, set the memory to be used by Open Office. I set mine to 30 MB. The default is 9 MB.

[sclebo05]

the new OO is much faster, might be worth the download. i always though 1.1 was pretty slow

[DerekKraan]

Originally posted by sclebo05
the new OO is much faster, might be worth the download. i always though 1.1 was pretty slow

1.1.0 is the new version.

The fix you mentioned won't help with loading the programs. You'll just have to accept that it's a massive program for now. I'm sure they're thinking of ways to take down the loading time.

[hard candy]

Is Konqueror and Open Office both figured to work with java? If both are configured, try Konqueror without java enabled.
Here is a tip from their website:
"OOo takes quite a while to startup, but newer versions seem to have improved on this problem. In Windows, there is a file called quickstart.exe, but in Linux you have to download a package called oooqs. For KDE, OpenOffice.org Quickstarter sits in the system tray; for GNOME, there is a package called ooqstart-gnome. The other alternative is to run at startup the following command:
soffice.bin -quickstart -plugin
Keep in mind that soffice.bin is located in /home/username/.openoffice."

[sclebo05]

sorry, i was tired :o