title: How to speed up excel reading/writing
body: <p>I am using Apache POI to read/write to an excel file for my company as an intern here. My program goes through the excel file which is a big square with top rows computer names and left column user names. 240 computers and 342 users. the sheet[computer][user] is 0 in all spaces and the program calls PSLoggedon for each computer and takes the username(s) currently logged on and increments their 0 so after running it after a month, it shows who is logged in the most to each computer. So far it runs in about 25 minutes since I used a socket to check socket.connect before actually calling PSLoggedon. </p>
  
  <p>Without reading or writing at all to the excel file, just calling all the PSLoggedon calls to each computer, takes about 9 minutes. So, the reading and writing apparently takes 10-15 minutes. The thing is, I am calling PSLoggedon on the computer, then opening the excel to find the [x][y] spot of the [computer][user] and then  writing to it a +=1 then closing it. So the reason it is taking this long I suppose is because it opens and closes the file so much? I could be completely wrong. But I can't think of a way to make this faster by opening and reading/writing all at once and only opening and closing the file once. Any ideas?</p>