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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2009
Eric Barber Vigesaa, Seattle, WA (US);
Benjamin C. Chamberlain, Redmond, WA (US);
Christopher M. Street, Redmond, WA (US);
Bruce Cordell Jones, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric Barber Vigesaa, Seattle, WA (US);
Benjamin C. Chamberlain, Redmond, WA (US);
Christopher M. Street, Redmond, WA (US);
Bruce Cordell Jones, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A data cell included in a document supporting cell structured data is conditionally formatted according to data that is stored in a separate location from the document. A user is allowed to select from a drop-down menu of related data sets a particular data set for conditionally formatting the data cell. The data cell is formatted according to the data set and the condition without requiring that the data set be stored locally in the document.