Of course, one problem seems to be powerpoint 2002. I have a macro laden powerpoint file I reuse over and over. This file is now 80 megs, without any slides in it. I have tried all the tricks on the Powerpoint FAQ page to reduce the size of the file. Nothing works so far. So, give MS credit for another big fat piece of sloppy programming.
You would think with the size of their user base..... But, consider the quality of their user base. Joel On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:29:24PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: > Well, have found one drawback in SO 7. It won't open really big powerpoint > presentations. On my lindows box with 620 megs, SO7 chokes on a ppt of 340 > megs, although it opens a ppt of 150megs just fine. On my windows laptop, > with 520 megs, powerpoint handles the large file fine, but it is slow > to load. > > On my old Caldera box, with 800 megs, the smaller files load fine with > SO 5.2. With 5.2 the large file loaded after about 10 minutes, but > didn't function properly, and finally froze SO. So, this appears to be > a limitation of SO, not the hardware. > > I can load large ppt's on an apple laptop at work, too, and they run fine. > > Wonder why SO can't handle the larger file? > > Joel > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:53:11AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: > > I just bought SO 7 from the lindows warehouse. At $30 bucks I figured > > why not, SO6 works well. An immediate, and welcome difference, is > > that it starts up much faster. This is actually important for reading > > documents on the internet. And, wonder of wonders, it doesn't start a > > second instance of itself when you click on two documents in the file > > browser to edit. That was a pain in SO6. And it has a macro recorder as > > well as an editor. Now, this is progress. > > > > Has anyone used SO7? Any impressions? Tips? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Joel > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
