Skip rendering of empty columns

This article explains how to hide empty columns when viewing Spreadsheets with GroupDocs.Viewer within your Java applications.

Introduction

Sometimes Excel document contains information at the beginning of the worksheet and after that, it contains some count of empty (blank) columns. In case, if the number of empty columns is considerably huge, the rendering time increases and hence, it affects the performance. 

The Solution

To skip rendering of empty columns GroupDocs.Viewer for Java provides setSkipEmptyColumns(…) property of SpreadsheetOptions class, which allows to omit rendering empty columns as shown in the sample below.

    Viewer viewer = new Viewer("sample.xlsx");
    HtmlViewOptions viewOptions = HtmlViewOptions.forEmbeddedResources();
    viewOptions.getSpreadsheetOptions().setSkipEmptyColumns(true);
    viewer.view(viewOptions);
    viewer.close();

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GitHub Examples

You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:

• GroupDocs.Viewer for Java examples, plugins, and showcase
• Document Viewer for .NET App WebForms UI Modern Example
• Document Viewer for Java App Dropwizard UI Modern Example
• Document Viewer for Java Spring UI Example
• GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET samples, plugins and showcase
• Document Viewer for .NET MVC UI Example 

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