Star Office 7

Brett I. Holcomb brettholcomb
Mon May 17 11:55:21 PDT 2004


Did you adjust the memory settings under options - maybe that will help.  I 
don't use SO but OpenOffice has them so I assume SO does.

Joel Hammer wrote:

> Well, have found one drawback in SO 7. It won't open really big powerpoint
> presentations. On my lindows box with 620 megs, SO7 chokes on a ppt of 340
> megs, although it opens a ppt of 150megs just fine. On my windows laptop,
> with 520 megs, powerpoint handles the large file fine, but it is slow
> to load.
> 
> On my old Caldera box, with 800 megs, the smaller files load fine with
> SO 5.2. With 5.2 the large file loaded after about 10 minutes, but
> didn't function properly, and finally froze SO. So, this appears to be
> a limitation of SO, not the hardware.
> 
> I can load large ppt's on an apple laptop at work, too, and they run fine.
> 
> Wonder why SO can't handle the larger file?
> 
> Joel

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