Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc too slow in opening Excel spreadsheets

Hi Ruud,

Ruud Mantingh wrote (08-02-11 12:35)

> Has anybody have any (bad) experience with opening Excel spreadsheets in
> Calc?
> I'm often working with very large Excel spreadsheets containing lots of
> formulas and macros.
> Office 2007 opens these almost instantaneously.
> LibreOffice takes a very long time and I even have seen it choke on one.
> I think there's some major rework / rethink needed for Calc because as it
> stands
> I'm too embarrased to show it at work.
> Basically for anything slightly complicated it's not fit for purpose IMHO.

Well, it's not that bad. But depends what your reference is. Very large 
Excel spreadsheets containing lots of formulas and macros are indeed slow.

> Is anything done to address this?

Indeed! Kohei Yoshida must have paid attention to this while speaking at 
FOSDEM, past weekend.
See http://www.fosdem.org/2011/schedule/event/calccore

However, it is not something as a 'quick fix', obviously.

Hope this gives some confidence for the future ;-)

Regards,
Cor


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