Make Open Office Run Faster

Customers at the Dell web site have been asked to state their wishes as to how Dell could improve their experience. Specifically, Dell has asked them to tell Michael Dell himself via a feedback form what they would like to see preinstalled.

One of the first concessions to be made via customer request was Ubuntu Linux. The next one is likely to be Open Office.

Open Office has been reviewed here before. It's an amazing, comprehensive product that is free, even for commercial use. But it has its quirks. However, I'm DELIGHTED to say that one that was most annoying to me is fixable with only a slight tweak.

So pick #1 today is how to speed Open Office up in the Windows or Linux environment. It's located here.

The second speed tweak is for Windows users only. It is located here.

And finally, why Open Office? Well, this site has all of the answers for you:

http://why.openoffice.org/

So if you're running Microsoft Works, by all means try Open Office. It blows the anemic suite away. And if you're running standard Microsoft Office, give it a try as well. You'll get a free relational database program, something you don't get with standard Office. And once it's installed, make the above speed tweaks to cause the program to open instantly.

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