Here is the tuturial how to make your open office load faster. You how slow it can be on the starter load. If you follow this correctlt you might fasten the loading time down to only 2-3 seconds. quite nice hah!!

1. Start OpenOffice (it doesn’t matter which application you load, Calc, Impress, or Writer will all work)
2. Click Tools>Options
3. Select Java menu and uncheck “Use a Java runtime environment”
4. Select the Memory Tab and change the following options:

• Number of steps: 30
• Use for Open Office: 128
• Memory per Object: 20
• Number of Objects: 20

[via : techhack]