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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2005
Eric D. Bailey, Redmond, WA (US);
Roberto C. Taboada, Bothell, WA (US);
Eric D. Bailey, Redmond, WA (US);
Roberto C. Taboada, Bothell, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An interactive formatting tool enables a user to analyze and modify the formatting properties that have been applied to a text string. A user can invoke the formatting tool by displaying an Interactive Formatting Pane and then selecting a text string for analysis. The Interactive Formatting Pane will display all formatting properties applied to the text selection, including font properties, paragraph properties, and section properties. The Interactive Formatting Pane may also display table format properties, frame format properties, cell format properties and bullets and numbering format properties, if applicable. The user may then select a formatting category (e.g., font size) from the Interactive Formatting Pane and a format modification dialog will be displayed. The format modification dialog enables the user to modify the formatting properties associated with the selected formatting category. The Interactive Formatting Pane also includes a compare selection checkbox. The Interactive Formatting Pane will highlight the formatting differences between the selections. The user may then select each highlighted difference and reconcile the formatting properties of the two selections.