Ed Hewitt

This week’s Linux Wednesday post, is all about OpenOffice.org. Most of you may know that I always aim for a fast computer. I search the internet to find ways of making my computer faster. I hate a slow computer, one reason I use Ubuntu over XP, it does not go slow after a few months.
Recently I found a HOW-To for making OpenOffice load faster. By changing a few settings in “Options”, OO.org does load up faster. This HOW-To will help Windows, Linux and Mac users.

First, load up OpenOffice.org Word Processor. Go to the “Tools” and select “Options”. Select “Memory” on the left panel, change the setting as shown below.

Reduce the number of Undo steps to a figure lower than 100. Change to 20 or 30 steps.

Under Graphics cache, set Use for OpenOffice.org to 128 MB (up from the original 6MB).

Set Memory per object to 20MB (up from the default .5MB).

Set the number of objects under Cache for inserted objects at 20.

Check OpenOffice.org Quickstarter.

Now select “Java” on the left panel, uncheck “Use a Java runtime environment”.

Click the OK button and close OpenOffice.org. If you are as RAM cautious as I am, you would be concerned that OO.org quickerstarter will use up alot of RAM, but it only uses less than 1MB. It is deferentially worth having this starting up during boot up, because this can really make OpenOffice.org load alot quicker. Start it up again to experience the change in speed!

Thanks to Zolved.com for this helpful HOW-To!

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