I am trying to open a 33 page xxx.doc file which has data in in a table (3 coloumns X 200+ rows) using Libre Office 3.3.2. The files take ~4-6 minutes to open (all other applications and smaller documents opens real fast and I have a new and fast laptop). During this time entire LibreOffice will appears as hung. I checked swap usage using free and I can see it used some swap, but very little.
Once I open the document, I do see the data and table alignment completely lost. There are some areas table has contents, but by and large data is not within the cells as expected.
How I can speed up the opening process and how I can get the data almost like when I open with MS-Office?
This is does not help you with LibreOffice but it might help you opening and working more efficiently with your document. Have you tried to instead open your document in AbiWord? AbiWord is a word processor that is lighter and faster than LibreOffice