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by FdbkHb 809 days ago
The other parts aren't much better either. Calc is unbearably slow on large spreadsheets.

It's always been a janky and stuttery experience and the massive improvements in computer performance (CPU, SSD etc) have never managed to bring it up to par, you can see how much faster Word loads even on a simple document compared to Writer. It's been that way since before it became open source: Star Office made you look at its splash screen for a decent while back in the day.

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There has been a lot of work on performance in Calc. Do you have a concrete example of such slowness nowadays, or has it been a while since you last opened a large spreadsheet?