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A computer implemented method includes accessing a spreadsheet for display on a display screen during a remote meeting, receiving a first selection to execute a spotlight function, receiving a second selection of a portion of the spreadsheet being displayed, creating an overlay via the spotlight function, the overlay having a transparent cavity corresponding to the selected portion of the spreadsheet, and applying the overlay to the spreadsheet being displayed such that the selected portion is visible and other portions of the spreadsheet are obscured.

Enhanced spreadsheet presentation using spotlighting and enhanced spreadsheet collaboration using live typing

A system for provenance aware editing for propagating edits back to spreadsheets is provided. The system receives an indication of an operation to be performed at an output location. The operation indicates one or more input locations on a spreadsheet that each provides an input value. The input values are accessed and tagged with their corresponding input location on the spreadsheet. Based on the operation and the input value from each of the one or more input locations, the system derives and displays the result at the output location. A user edit to the result is received at the output location, which causes transmission of a propagation request to change the input value at one or more of the tagged input locations. Using where-provenance associated with the tagged input locations, the system propagates the user edit to one or more of the tagged input locations.

Provenance aware editing for spreadsheets

A file server and a method of operating a file server where version identifiers for documents on the server are maintained as a branched tree. When a client computer attempts to sync up a new version of a file, it must upload the version identifier that it received when it synced down the file. The file server compares this version identifier to the numbers in its version tree for the file and may place the document in the correct place in the tree structure, which may not be as the 'latest version' of the document. If the client is using an outdated version of the document, the server may also sync down the latest version of the file. The user may view the changes to the version tree and reconcile different versions to create an authoritative version, and this review and reconciliation may occur at any time, instead of being performed at the moment that the file is saved or forking the file into a new filename.

Method to model server-client sync conflicts using version trees

A collaborative authoring application provides an authoring environment in which two or more users can edit a document concurrently. Each user edits a copy of the document, sends updates to a master copy of the document, and receives updates from the master copy of the document. The authoring environment generally inhibits the users from providing conflicting editing instructions to the master copy of the document. For example, each user can generate a content lock about one or more data units within the document. The authoring environment may synchronize content locks automatically and content only at the request of the user.

Collaborative authoring

A method and apparatus for protecting regions of an electronic document are provided. According to the method, the entire electronic document is protected. The selection of a region within the electronic document is received along with identity of one or more users authorized to freely edit the selected region. The identified users are authorized to freely edit only the selected region of the electronic document. A request is then received to edit a region of the electronic document from a current user. In response to the request, a determination is made as to whether the current user is authorized to edit the region. If the user is not authorized to edit the region, the request is denied.

Method and apparatus for protecting regions of an electronic document

A consumer oriented data service is provided. A data collaboration service initiates operations to provide access to data from multiple sources by managing a data table of aggregate data fields based on a request from a client application. The request includes a consumer identification and data queries. An ownership of the data table is assigned based on the consumer identification. Local data fields identified in the data queries are inserted into the data table and populated with local datasets stored in the queries. External data fields identified in the data queries are inserted into the data table and populated with links to external datasets stored in external data sources.

Provide consumer oriented data service

A user's (client) computer sends a request for a listing of applications which can be downloaded from a server in an electronic marketplace and a list of functions provided by a host program. A description of an application, such as in an application manifest, provides a list of required functions and, preferably, a list of optional functions for a software application. The server sends a list of applications supported by those functions. Those supported applications are displayed to the user as being available for downloading. The user selects the desired application and the user's computer requests, and the server provides, a download of that application. The downloaded application will then operate on the user's computer using the required functions provided by the host programs, and may use any optional functions provided by the host programs.

Identification of host-compatible downloadable applications

A user may easily read, browse, and jump through the messages contained within a thread. Different portions of the message may be highlighted such that they are easily identifiable. The user may easily navigate through the thread by selecting a user interface element, such as an arrow button, to move to the next or previous message within the thread. The order of the thread may also be reversed such that the user may view the thread from the first message to the last message, or view the thread from the last message to the first message. The messages within the thread may be marked, such as by using XML tags, in order to facilitate the identification of the sections of the messages within the thread.

Navigating messages within a thread

An extensible markup language ('XML') schema is provided for defining a content region which displays specific types of content in an electronic document created in a word processing application program. The schema includes structural elements for defining the content region in the electronic document. The structural elements include a properties element for defining properties associated with the content to be displayed in the content region and a content element for receiving the content to be displayed according to the defined properties. The properties element and the content element define the content region in the electronic document.

Method and apparatus for utilizing an extensible markup language schema for managing specific types of content in an electronic document

A method and computer-readable medium are provided for interacting with a portion of an electronic document. According to the method, a UI control is displayed that includes a border surrounding the portion of the electronic document and one or more UI items that allow actions to be performed on the portion of the electronic document. The UI control may be displayed continually or displayed when user input is received within the portion of the electronic document. The border of the UI control may form a bounded region that is displayed transparently over the display of the portion of the electronic document. The transparency of the bounded region may be increased gradually when user input is received in the portion of the electronic document and removed gradually when user input is subsequently received outside the portion. A selectable region may be provided within the UI control for selecting and moving the portion of the electronic document to another location within the document.

Method and computer-readable medium for interacting with a portion of an electronic document

Client side locking

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