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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2005
Eric D. Bailey, Redmond, WA (US);
Roberto C. Taboada, Duvall, WA (US);
Eric D. Bailey, Redmond, WA (US);
Roberto C. Taboada, Duvall, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for utilizing a document object model to manage document parts for use in an electronic document. The document object model enables a user to retrieve, insert, add, and delete document parts to and from an electronic document using a programmable interface from within a word processing application program. A document part programming interface is exposed in the object model and methods associated with the object model are called which return objects enabling the location and management of document parts in a document parts collection.