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Cathy Lynn McBride

Jie Li

Mark Nelson

Michael Joe Woolf

Paul Anderson

Jimmy Y Sun

Zijia Zheng

Eduardo Ramon Lemus Velazquez

Patrick Leahy

Systems and methods for distorting the form or format of an object in an electronic document. A sketch effect theme defines parameters that when applied to the object modify one or more coloring, formatting, and effects characteristics of the object to convey a sketched or hand-drawn look or feel to the object. The parameters are stored in a record associated with the document to persist the sketch effect theme through different sessions in which the document is active or open.

Using sketch effects as part of displaying one or more electronic document objects

Adornments are applied to shapes in a diagram that graphically displays data about those shapes. Once the adornments are applied to a shape, the information displayed is automatically updated as the underlying shape data changes. The appearance of the diagram is updated automatically when the user updates the data for their shapes. The set of adornments that may be applied to shapes is extensible. A mechanism and interface is defined for creating additional adornments that have customized looks or behaviors.

System and method for adorning shapes with data driven objects

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