[ILUG] OpenOffice going crazy

[Kevin Philp]

I am running OpenOffice 2.2 on Ubuntu-fiesty and it is giving a few 
problems with a new presentation template. In a moment of madness our 
company decided on a new template for presentations. One was knocked up 
on Microsoft Office and I got the job of putting it on our Ubuntu 
network. I started from scratch rather than just saving the MS template 
but I have hit problems. The template seems to have grown to about 2MB 
in size and when I use it my CPU usage shoots up to 100% and it runs 
very slow. The main difference I can see between between the new and old 
version is that the new version uses several colour and transparency 
gradients - would this grind OpenOffice to a halt? Its only two slides!