Patent ID: 8904340
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for reducing cycle time of automatically created spreadsheets, comprising: obtaining a first control document having optimized settings for the spreadsheet, wherein the optimized settings include disabling automatic saving, automatic calculation, and background error checking; optimizing a spreadsheet application by applying the optimized settings to the spreadsheet application, the applying of the optimized settings including modifying default settings of the spreadsheet application based on the optimized settings to modify a set of behaviors of the spreadsheet application when processing spreadsheet data; creating the spreadsheet by importing data from a source different from the control document in a natural format that is different from a format of the spreadsheet into the spreadsheet using the optimized settings in the spreadsheet application; obtaining a second control document having final settings for the spreadsheet; setting, in response to completion of the creating, the final settings in the spreadsheet application having the created spreadsheet, the setting of the final settings including remodifying the default settings of the spreadsheet application changed in the applying of the optimized settings; and outputting the created spreadsheet using the final settings in the spreadsheet application.