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Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2008

Filed:

Sep. 18, 2003
Applicants:

Stuart Jay Stuple, Carnation, WA (US);

Krista Bendig, Seattle, WA (US);

Peter Engrav, Seattle, WA (US);

Christopher Pratley, Seattle, WA (US);

Owen C. Braun, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Stuart Jay Stuple, Carnation, WA (US);

Krista Bendig, Seattle, WA (US);

Peter Engrav, Seattle, WA (US);

Christopher Pratley, Seattle, WA (US);

Owen C. Braun, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and system can format objects on a first page of an electronic document being created by applying the formatting from corresponding objects contained in a separate formatting source where these objects have been formatted using the existing tools of the application. In this way, when a page is created that has formatting information that is preferred by a user, subsequent pages can be created by referring to the page that has the preferred formatting information.


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