Turbo Charge Your OpenOffice.org Writer

  05 Jul 2007 by Vyoma

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This one is a tip I found at Zolved. It is an optimization setting that makes OO.org Writer run faster in Ubuntu. No reason it should not work in Windows.

  • Just go to Tools -> Options
  • Select OpenOffice.org -> Memory in left panel
    • Undo - Number Of Steps: 30 or 20
    • Graphics Cache - Use for OpenOffice.org: 128 MB
    • Graphics Cache - Memory per object: 20 MB
    • Cache for inserted objects - Number of objects: 20
  • Select OpenOffice.org -> Java in left panel
    • Uncheck ‘Use a Java Runtime Environment
  • Click OK and feel the speed next time you load OpenOffice.org Writer

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12 Responses so far

  1. jamy July 5, 2007 2:29 am

    Thank for dropping by ! Keep up your good job !

  2. kuanhoong July 5, 2007 3:28 am

    Great! I love OpenOffice. In fact, I love anything that is opensource. *Hint : Not from Microsoft

  3. Vyoma July 5, 2007 4:09 am

    @jamy: You are welcome.

    @kuanhoong: Don’t we all!

  4. Lorna July 5, 2007 4:45 am

    Great tip; wonder if this will work on Windows…

  5. Vyoma July 5, 2007 4:47 am

    Yes, it works on Windows too. But I did not benchmark it to see the exact performance optimization.

  6. Jake July 5, 2007 3:45 pm

    I have a family member set up as using OpenOffice.org on Vista. These tricks seem to work on it as well. Thanks.

  7. reviewsaurus July 5, 2007 5:06 pm

    @ Jake : Hey thanks for updating us. I’m glad that this tip has helped you :)

  8. dEEPAK July 7, 2007 5:26 pm

    gr8 tip.. the speed difference is noticeable..

  9. reviewsaurus July 7, 2007 7:31 pm

    @ dEEPAK : I’m glad that you liked the tip :)

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