OpenOffice is a really neat office suite which works perfectly fine on the Mac. Unfortunately the startup times are… “not the best”, but here is a little trick of how to improve startup of OpenOffice on Windows, Mac and Linux:

• Open up the Preferences (Command + ,)
• Navigate to OpenOffice.org > Java
• Uncheck the “Use a Java runtime environment”

This will considerably improve the startup time of OpenOffice, while disable i.e. Java based macros. In the very unlikely event that you need them just check the box again…. but until then – enjoy!