Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Scott Morgan LeGendre

Mark Nelson

Craig A Hobbs

Iain Clifford Heath

Steven T Antoch

Michael Kazuo Ishimitsu

Joao Pedro Silva

Jonathan R Grayum

Georges A Winkenbach

A system and method facilitating diagramming is provided. The diagram system includes a diagram that stores shape element(s) and an application program interface (API) that includes a control that facilitates access to the diagram. The control maintains state information associated with the diagram. For example, application(s) can employ the API to access and/or modify the diagram. The system employs a rich framework to support both document and diagram state. Because the same framework is used to manipulate the state in a consistent way, it becomes much easier to keep the diagram synchronized with the underlying data than with conventional system(s).

API for building semantically rich diagramming tools

Methods and systems are provided for bounding data entered into one or more spreadsheet application cells. A bounding function is applied to a given cell that places bounds on values or formula results that may be entered into the cell. If a user enters a value to a bounded cell that exceeds or otherwise violates the bounds applied to the cell, or if a formula directed to the cell evaluates a value to the bounded cell that exceeds or otherwise violates the bounds applied to the cell, the value entered into the cell will be a value most closely approximating the desired value or evaluated value, but that does not exceed or otherwise violate the bounds set for the cell.

Method and system for formulaically bounding data in a spreadsheet

A computer-implemented method and system for selecting elements in a graphical user interface (GUI) is presented. The method and system improves upon existing approaches by simplifying an element selection perimeter created in a document within a GUI. Preliminary selections and rejections of elements that are located inside or outside of an element selection perimeter, respectively, are also performed. The simplification of the element selection perimeter and the preliminary selections and rejections of elements provide element selections in a GUI quickly, using a minimized number and complexity of computations.

Method and system for selecting elements in a graphical user interface

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Scott Morgan LeGendre