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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
May. 13, 2005
Nathalie S. Collins, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rebecca S. Levine, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dennis Coh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nathalie S. Collins, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rebecca S. Levine, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dennis Coh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A user interface within a presentation program manages hierarchical relationships. A master view includes a thumbnail view that shows the hierarchical relationship between slide masters and layouts used within the presentation. In one example, the thumbnail view is a series of thumbnail tree-controls where each slide master is the top node of the tree control and the layouts are the children of the slide master. A user may copy, move, delete, and edit slide masters, layouts, and slides using the user interface. A contextual representation of slide master and layout commands may be shown in the same overall user interface space.