hi On 9/1/07, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a chance that the slowness is a conversion from Excel to OO > scalc format each time the document is opened?
This is worth testing, although it still poses a problem: All the educators need to use the same file format (now we see the importance of ODF). But this school's educators is over-worked and under-paid and they are very impatient as a result. (please see my earlier email for details). What happens if you > open the spreadsheet (slowly) and then save it as a native Open Office > document? How fast does it open the new copy? I will test this tomorrow and report back to this list. Thanks for this suggestion. Good luck with what you are trying to do. It's exciting and I'm sure > everyone here would love to see you be successful. yeah, thanks very much. Community is what makes FOSS so much fun!