Re: [users] Time to open and save large files with Calc

2005-10-28 Thread Caleb Marcus
Eleven minutes? I retract my previous statement. Robin Laing wrote: Robin Laing wrote: Bryce Schober wrote: On 10/27/05, Robin Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CPHennessy wrote: On Wed October 26 2005 16:22, Bryce Schober wrote: On 10/26/05, Jim Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: H

Re: [users] Time to open and save large files with Calc

2005-10-28 Thread Robin Laing
Robin Laing wrote: Bryce Schober wrote: On 10/27/05, Robin Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CPHennessy wrote: On Wed October 26 2005 16:22, Bryce Schober wrote: On 10/26/05, Jim Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All: Is there a trick to working with large files in calc? The

Re: [users] Time to open and save large files with Calc

2005-10-27 Thread Robin Laing
Bryce Schober wrote: On 10/27/05, Robin Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CPHennessy wrote: On Wed October 26 2005 16:22, Bryce Schober wrote: On 10/26/05, Jim Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All: Is there a trick to working with large files in calc? The same spreadsheet opens

Re: [users] Time to open and save large files with Calc

2005-10-27 Thread Bryce Schober
On 10/27/05, Robin Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CPHennessy wrote: > > On Wed October 26 2005 16:22, Bryce Schober wrote: > > > >>On 10/26/05, Jim Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>>Hello All: > > >>>Is there a trick to working with large files in calc? The same > >>>spreadsheet opens

Re: [users] Time to open and save large files with Calc

2005-10-27 Thread Bryce Schober
On 10/26/05, Anthony Chilco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Bryce, Jim, > The reason for the long load and save times is that all OOo files are > stored in XML format. Basically, they're text files and must be parsed > and translated to binary each time. MSO saves only in binary format, so > the l

Re: [users] Time to open and save large files with Calc

2005-10-27 Thread Robin Laing
CPHennessy wrote: On Wed October 26 2005 16:22, Bryce Schober wrote: On 10/26/05, Jim Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All: Is there a trick to working with large files in calc? The same spreadsheet opens and saves in a few seconds with excel and gnumeric. Apparently not. I've had

Re: [users] Time to open and save large files with Calc

2005-10-26 Thread CPHennessy
On Wed October 26 2005 16:22, Bryce Schober wrote: > On 10/26/05, Jim Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello All: > > > > I have recently been able to open one of my large (25 meg) excel > > spreadsheets in Calc. With help from Daniel Rentz I was able to clean up > > a few of the formulas and

Re: [users] Time to open and save large files with Calc

2005-10-26 Thread Anthony Chilco
Hi Bryce, Jim, The reason for the long load and save times is that all OOo files are stored in XML format. Basically, they're text files and must be parsed and translated to binary each time. MSO saves only in binary format, so the load time is shorter. The only way around it is to break your

Re: [users] Time to open and save large files with Calc

2005-10-26 Thread Bryce Schober
On 10/26/05, Jim Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All: > > I have recently been able to open one of my large (25 meg) excel > spreadsheets in Calc. With help from Daniel Rentz I was able to clean up > a few of the formulas and the whole thing is working (well I have not > tried the macros

[users] Time to open and save large files with Calc

2005-10-26 Thread Jim Martin
Hello All: I have recently been able to open one of my large (25 meg) excel spreadsheets in Calc. With help from Daniel Rentz I was able to clean up a few of the formulas and the whole thing is working (well I have not tried the macros yet). Anyway, Calc took a LONG time to open the file and