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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 15, 1999
Terri L. Sorge, Kirkland, WA (US);
May May Quan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Kent R. Lowry, Seattle, WA (US);
Russell S. Johnson, Seattle, WA (US);
John L. Dauphiny, Woodinville, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A spreadsheet program directly publishes a data table or chart into an HTML document. The table or chart is published to a predefined location within the HTML document and a user is enabled to readily update the published table or chart to include changes made in the spreadsheet program by republishing the data table or chart. Furthermore, the published or republished data can be imported back into the parent spreadsheet program from the HTML document without loss of functionality or formatting that it had in the parent spreadsheet program. In addition, the data may be published in a form that can be used by ActiveX web components in order to provide spreadsheet functionality from within the browser application. A unique marker tag or identification tag within the HTML document indicates where the data table or chart has been inserted.