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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2007
Applicant:
Peter William Rapp, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Inventor:
Peter William Rapp, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Assignee:
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/24 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/246 (2013.01); G06F 17/276 (2013.01); G06F 9/4443 (2013.01); G06F 9/4446 (2013.01);
Abstract
Automatically completing a remainder portion of a name as it is being entered is disclosed. In some embodiments, in response to receiving at least a prescribed number of starting characters of a name being entered into a first cell as a reference name to refer to one or more other cells, a set of one or more valid reference names that begin with the received starting characters is determined and provided as auto-completion options. In such cases, a valid reference name is one that identifies using a supported syntax a spreadsheet document or a portion of a spreadsheet document.