Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Susan Baker

Caitlin E Ashley-Rollman

Tristan Davis

Malia Morioka Douglas

Charles Scott Walker

Andrew M Himberger

Peter Frem

Jessica Arwen Best

Said Abou-Hallawa

Levent Kartaltepe

Techniques for the automatic animation of document content are described. An apparatus may comprise a difference component operative to receive an old layout of a document and a new layout of the document, the new layout corresponding to an application of one or more changes to the old layout of the document, the difference component operative to determine a set of differences between the old layout and the new layout, and an animation layer generation component operative to generate a set of animation layers from the set of differences. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques for the automatic animation of changes to document content

Techniques to select and manipulate table borders as discrete objects are described. In particular, a table border may be selected without having to select a cell that includes the desired border. In one embodiment, for example, a technique may include detecting a selector in proximity to a border in a table. The border in proximity to the selector may be highlighted visually on a display to show which part of the table border may be selected. A selection may cause the highlighted border to be selected. The now-selected border may then be manipulated. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques for selection and manipulation of table boarders

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