<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Hi In response to Paul Sladen's enquiry, both my laptops run Xubuntu. One is on 10.04 and the other is running 10.10. On both I run OOO 3.2.1 from the OOO mirror rather than the Ubuntu repository. However, by way of experiment, I also downloaded the Go-OO version from the repository, but it made no difference. When the problem first appeared I was interfacing with MySQL using Connector/J 5.1.12. I  upgraded to the latest 5.1.14, but also to no avail. Because the slow performance has also manifested itself using embedded HSQL tables, I am pretty certain that the problem doesn't lie with the MySQL side of things; MySQL DB Browser is working just as quickly as usual. Nige </body> </html>