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Spreadsheet image showing data items as indirect graphical representations

  • US 5,880,742 A
  • Filed: 11/14/1996
  • Issued: 03/09/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/17/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a processor-based machine including a memory having instructions stored therein indicating instructions for a spreadsheet application program the processor executes, and including a display device having a display area wherein a first image of a spreadsheet is presented having a plurality of cells arranged in a plurality of rows and columns, each of the cells including an image of character information showing a direct representation of a data value indicated by a respectively paired one of a plurality of data items stored in a data array in the memory of the machine, the plurality of cells being arranged in a plurality of rows and columns;

  • the improvement wherein the processor, in executing the instructions for the spreadsheet application program, presents a second image of the spreadsheet in the display area replacing the first image;

    the processor replacing each character information image included in one of the respective cells in the first image of the spreadsheet with a graphical display object image in the second image of the spreadsheet;

    the graphical display object image representing an indirect graphical representation of the data value indicated by the respectively paired data item;

    the second image of the spreadsheet showing a graphical view of the data values of the respectively paired data items in the data array.

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