Method and system in an electronic spreadsheet for persistently copy-pasting a source range of cells onto one or more destination ranges of cells
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1. A method comprising:
- selecting a source range of cells in an electronic spreadsheet;
creating a persistent copy of cells that are in the source range of cells;
pasting the persistent copy of cells into a destination range of cells; and
applying a source visual appearance attribute to the source range of cells, the source visual appearance attribute being removed from the source rage of cells only if a copy-paste manager invokes a break-paste command that breaks a relationship previously established between the source range of cells and the destination range of cells.
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Abstract
A system and method is disclosed for persistently copying and pasting a source range of cells of a multidimensional spreadsheet onto one or more destination ranges of cells. When the source cells are first copied and pasted, a persistent association is made between the source cells and the destination cells. Thereafter, whenever a cell in the source range is updated, the corresponding cells in the destination range are updated automatically.
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1. A method comprising:
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selecting a source range of cells in an electronic spreadsheet;
creating a persistent copy of cells that are in the source range of cells;
pasting the persistent copy of cells into a destination range of cells; and
applying a source visual appearance attribute to the source range of cells, the source visual appearance attribute being removed from the source rage of cells only if a copy-paste manager invokes a break-paste command that breaks a relationship previously established between the source range of cells and the destination range of cells. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A computer program product residing on a computer usable medium, comprising:
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program code for selecting a source range of cells in an electronic spreadsheet;
program code for creating a persistent copy of cells that are in the source range of cells;
program code for pasting the persistent copy of cells into a destination range of cells; and
program code for applying a source visual appearance attribute to the source range of cells, the source visual appearance attribute being removed from the source range of cells only if a copy-paste manager invokes a break-paste command that breaks a relationship previously established between the source range of cells and the destination range of cells. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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