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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 20, 1999
Fréd{overscore (e)}ric Bauchot, St. Jeannet, FR;
Albert Harari, Nice, FR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to the field of information processing by digital computers and, more particularly, to a method and system, in an electronic spreadsheet, for easily swapping the protection mode of a cell between a protected mode and an unprotected mode, while preserving the mathematical formulas used in the protected mode The electronic spreadsheet includes a cell content manager with an interface for handling the content of user specified cells according to the read-only, protected mode where a cell is usually filled by a formula, and the read-write, unprotected mode with a free update of the cell by the spreadsheet user. Preferred display methodology is also described for representing the current mode of a given cell.