Open Office: How to disable image link updates

Question

I'm writing a user manual to a card game and there is a looot of linked images. Open Office is working so slow because every time I flip to a page with linked images it starts to update them.

Is it possible to tell Open Office to NOT update the links until I tell it to do so? I would like it to display the same snapshot it showed the last time I initiated link update.

I'm using Open Office v3.3.0

// Thank you.

Answer 1

In Libreoffice and OpenOffice use this path:

Tools -> Options -> Libre/ OpenOffice writer -> General -> Update-update links when loading.

You can select one of the following options:

• Always
• On request
• Never

As shown here.

For greater speed with loading images you could:

From office help-edit links, have Graphics On/Off icon on the Tools bar activated, no graphics are displayed - only empty frames as placeholders. This would increase the speed of loading the images and hold the link.

To increase speed:

1. Tools-> options-> load/save-> general, uncheck load printer settings with document
2. Tools-> options-> office-> memory-> graphic's cache, you can increase the cache size

For office, memory per object. Cache for inserted objects == number of objects. As for stopping newly created links being updated over old is probably not able to be done.

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In Apache OpenOffice 4.1.10, on Mac, these options are now in OpenOffice -> Preferences...