METHOD AND SYSTEM IN AN ELECTRONIC SPREADSHEET FOR HANDLING GRAPHICAL OBJECTS REFERRING TO WORKING RANGES OF CELLS IN A COPY/CUT AND PASTE OPERATION

WIPO Patent Application WO2002069212

A3

The present invention discloses a system and method of copying and pasting a source range of cells (405) onto a destination range of cells (425) in a multi-dimensional spreadsheet comprising a plurality of cells identified by a cell address along each dimension, a range of cells comprising one or a plurality of cells, said source range of cells (405) comprising one or a plurality of working ranges of cells (401), and one or a plurality of fastening ranges of cells in which one or a plurality of graphical objects are represented (402, 403, 404), said one or plurality of graphical objects being associated with said one or plurality of working ranges of cells.

AUREGLIA JEAN-JACQUES (FR)
BAUCHOT FREDERIC (FR)
SOLER CATHERINE (FR)

PCT/EP2002/001953

November 07, 2002

January 31, 2002

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IBM (US)
IBM FRANCE (FR)
AUREGLIA JEAN-JACQUES (FR)
BAUCHOT FREDERIC (FR)
SOLER CATHERINE (FR)

G06F17/24; (IPC1-7): G06F17/60

WO1997021176A1

1997-06-12

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