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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2012
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 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 17/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 17/246 (2013.01); G06F 17/24 (2013.01); G06F 17/245 (2013.01);
Abstract
Preventing the inclusion of a reference to a host cell in a formula to avoid a circular reference in the formula is disclosed. In some embodiments, an indication of an attempted user gesture for inserting into a formula being entered into a host cell a reference to the host cell is received, and the attempted user gesture for inserting a reference to the host cell is disallowed to prevent a circular reference from being inserted into the formula being entered into the host cell.