Brendan, could you save the file from openoffice as starcalc 5.0 format (file extension .sdc) and report any difference in times to open and save? thanks jim watson On Mon, 03 May 2004 12:07:23 +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote > I have an Excel spreadsheet which has a couple of sheets and two charts. > In Gnumeric it opens instantaneously, but in OpenOfficeCalc it takes > almost a minute. I can't believe how slow it is.