Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rolf Arnold Ebeling

Michael Jay Gilmore

Scott David Hoogerwerf

Manav Mishra

Shikha Devesh Desai

Matthew P Duignan

Jensen Michael Harris

Ruth Kikin-Gil

Taili Feng

Richard Jacob White

Paul Anthony Scudieri

Lyon Wong

Benjamin J Karas

Jesse Clay Satterfield

Alan Andrew Urdan

Tyler Kien Beam

Mark Yalovsky

Samuel J Moreau

Steven J Ball

David Fields

Karen K Wong

Allison Anne Whilden

Dennis L Davis

Peter Seraphim Ponomarev

Annice Jumani

Yu Mao

Christina L Rhodes

YuBeen Lee

Stephanie Cooper

Alicia Drummond

Melinda Knight

Stephen Hoefnagels

Robert H Liao

Priya Vaidyanathan

Edward Boyle Averett

Arun Gurunathan

Mehmet Iyigun

Robert J Jarrett

Yevgeniy Bak

Stephan Hoefnagels

Bret P Anderson

David Andrew Matthews

Maverick J Velasco

Nils Anders Sundelin

Christopher J Guzak

Matthew Isaac Worley

Michael Koenig

Gary Caldwell

Suzan Marashi

Benjamin Betz

Jeffrey Che Fuller

Stuart Sechrest

Derik Bjorn Stenerson

Brian Eric Uphoff

Gabriel S DeBacker

Seth Fox

Yau Ning Chin

Sung Joon Won

Marc Wautier

Brandon H Paddock

Shawn M Woods

Brendan D Elliott

Yibing Zhu

Prashant Ratanchandani

Ryan M Hurst

Erin M O'Connell

Jason Carl Hendrickson

Patrick Davis

Alfredo R Arnaiz

Eugene Y Suh

Xiao Wei

Kwong K Leung

Stephanie M Monk

Dona Sarkar

Kenichiro Chiba

Kavitha Radhakrishnan

Nicole Michel

Hani Farouq Abu-Huwaij

Dermot McLoughlin

Aryeh N Polsky

Brendan M Dohm

Maria Isabel R Carpenter

Navneet Singh Kambo

Ishfaq Mohammad Ismail

John Corey Morgan

Jonathan M Au

Hemchand Alla

Aaron W Cardwell

Tom Alphin, Iii

Zachary Burstain

Gabriel S Debacker

David C Fields

Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe creation and management of a contact associated with a document. A contact for a document in a first application may be created. The contact may be used to add content, from a second application, to the document. The contact may be stored. Contact data for the contact may be transmitted to one or more processing devices. An exemplary created contact may be used to transfer content from one or more applications to a document of another application. Other examples are also described.

Contact creation and utilization

A file access request is received from an application. One or more file types for the file access request are identified, and one or more file hosts supporting files of the identified one or more file types are also identified. A user interface is displayed, the user interface including a hosted area. Within the hosted area, at least one of the one or more file hosts displays a portion of the user interface identifying one or more files of at least one file host that can be selected for retrieval, or one or more locations that can be selected to which the one or more files are saved.

File access with different file hosts

Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for graphically organizing content in a user interface to a software application. A visual representations of data objects is presented on a canvas in the user interface. User input is received indicative of at least a visual construct for arranging the visual representations of the data objects on the canvas and criteria for arranging the visual representations of the data objects with respect to the visual construct. Data associated with each of the data objects that relates to the criteria is then identified. Each of the visual representations of data objects are placed on the visual construct based on the data related to the criteria.

Graphically organizing content in a user interface to a software application

In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems and methods for providing customizable electronic document review options within electronic document processing applications are provided. An analysis of an electronic document may be performed comprising a review of an electronic document for a plurality of style issues, a plurality of spelling issues and a plurality of grammar issues. A proofing task pane having a plurality of selectable options may be displayed. A total number of identified issues associated with each of the plurality of style issues, the plurality of spelling issues and the plurality of grammar issues may be displayed in the task pane based on the analysis of the electronic document. A value associated with the electronic document may be calculated based on a fluency metric associated with the electronic document and an indication of the fluency value for the electronic document may be displayed in the task pane.

Proofing task pane

A system level search user interface that includes both a data entry portion and a search identification portion is displayed. Data input by a user as a search term is displayed in the data entry portion, and identifiers of each of one or more scopes on the computing device that can be searched using the search term are displayed in the search identification portion. Search results based on a selected scope are displayed in a search results portion of the system level search user interface. A set of keyboard shortcuts allow users to quickly search using any of the scopes, and see previews of a number of results that each of the scopes return. Additionally, the system level search user interface allow users to easily focus on different search result entries, and efficiently change scopes for searching.

Facilitating interaction with system level search user interface

Collaboration cards are provided to enable people to collaborate and receive instant replies to comments or questions from anywhere in a collaboratively generated document. A collaborator may add somebody's name to a collaboration card and ask that person for information, for example. That person may receive the question/comment via an email, a text message, a posting, or comparable communication methods, and respond back with the requested information through the same communication channel or another communication channel. The replied content may be placed into the collaboration card created in the document, and the original sender may be enabled to accept a change to the document content based on the collaboration card.

Collaboration cards for communication related to a collaborated document

This document describes techniques for presenting a resource user interface. These techniques present, in a summary section of a user interface, multiple selectable resource tiles that each include real-time and/or static information corresponding to one of multiple resources of a computing device. Each of the multiple selectable resource tiles are presented simultaneously, which enables a user to compare live, real-time resource usage for different resources of the computing device. Further, these techniques present, in a detailed view section of the user interface, additional real-time resource information and/or a real-time resource graph corresponding to a selected one of the multiple resources.

Resource user interface

Various embodiments for process relationship management are described. In at least some embodiments, a user interface is presented that provides an integrated view of processes that are running on a computing device and relationships between the processes. For example, the user interface can display a visual indication that a first process is related to a second process and that if a user closes the first process, the second process will also close as a result. Further to one or more embodiments, the user interface can display status messages regarding processes, such as that a process is not responding to a request to close or that a process is waiting on user input.

User interface for process relationship management

A system level search user interface that includes both a data entry portion and an application identification portion is displayed. User data input as a search term is displayed in the data entry portion, and identifiers of each of one or more applications of multiple applications on the computing device that can be searched using the search term are displayed in the application identification portion. The search term is provided to one application of the multiple applications for that one application to generate and display search results based on the search term while the display of at least the data entry portion of the system level search user interface is maintained.

System level search user interface

Two different process management views can be displayed, and a user can request to switch between the two views. The user can select a process in either view and have the selected process terminated. One view is a simplified view that identifies processes and whether they are non-responsive. The other view is an expanded view that identifies processes and the amount of various system resources used by each of those processes. Various additional information can be displayed in the expanded view, such as identifiers of various windows, tabs, and/or services associated with each of the processes.

Process management views

File management user interface techniques are described. In one or more implementations, properties of a file are displayed in a user interface by a computing device. In response to selection of a particular one of the properties in the user interface, one or more representations of one or more other files that include a corresponding value of the particular property are displayed, respectively, of the file.

File management user interface

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Rolf Arnold Ebeling