RE: [libreoffice-users] Poor formatting and extremely slow performance

["Eric Marx" <eric.marx@profinishesplus.com>]

It’s a side effect of how poorly Crystal Reports exports that report as a spreadsheet. It was less work for the people at my company to export it as a .doc.

-----Original Message-----
From: T. R. Valentine [mailto:trvalentine@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 11:59 AM
To: users@libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Poor formatting and extremely slow performance

On 11 February 2011 10:15, Eric Marx <eric.marx@profinishesplus.com> wrote:

> The document
> https://gp.profinishes.com/remote/document.doc

<snip>

> My company uses documents exported out of Crystal Reports from a 
> vendor. One particular document which has been in use for years 
> formats and performs adequately in Microsoft Office but formats poorly 
> and causes Libre Office to lock up while scrolling, resizing, editing 
> or pretty much just looking at it.

I am curious as to why a document which is more a spreadsheet is being edited in a word processor. ISTM a word processor is the wrong tool for the job.

My LO Writer/Win XP does seem to struggle with the file, so the problem can definitely be replicated.


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