Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Elizabeth Jeanne Sheldon

Jonathan Bailor

Milos Lazarevic

Ambrose Thomas Treacy

Walter David Pullen

Aleksandar Tomic

Dragan Slaveski

Maithili Dandige

Marija Antic

Bikramjit S Kalra

A color coding engine and a comparison engine are provided. A color coding engine may be utilized to detect logical layout object attributes in a flow format document and apply a unique color to textual elements associated with each logical layout object attribute. The resulting color coded document may be saved as a target flow format document. The target flow format document may be converted to a fixed format document and then converted by a conversion engine to a flow format document. The resulting converted flow format document may be saved as an output flow format document. A comparison engine may be utilized to compare the output flow format document and the target flow format document to determine if layout information has been properly preserved in the document conversion process.

Color coding of layout structure elements in a flow format document

Embodiments are described for blocking the opening of a file. Some embodiments include receiving a request to open a file. In response, a portion of the file's data is examined to determine a true file format for the file. A determination is then made as to whether the true file format of the file has been set as blocked. Based on the determination that the file format is blocked from opening, the file is prevented from being loaded into memory and from being accessed. A message is then displayed to a user indicating that the file has been blocked from opening.

File blocking mitigation

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Elizabeth Jeanne Sheldon