Patent ID: 11900133
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A method comprising:
on a computing device, displaying a spreadsheet in a user interface;
on a computing device, pre-obtaining metadata, from a remote service, that pre-identifies an unstructured table in the spreadsheet, wherein the metadata includes a range of cells belonging to the unstructured table in the spreadsheet, and wherein the unstructured table is not formatted as a table;
on the computing device, detecting a user action in the spreadsheet after having pre-obtained the metadata;
on the computing device, identifying an active cell associated with the user action;
on the computing device, determining, based on the range of cells identified in the pre-obtained metadata, whether the active cell belongs to the unstructured table;
on the computing device, and in response to determining that the active cell belongs to the unstructured table, displaying a suggestion component in the user interface; and
on the computing device, and in response to a selection of the suggestion component, displaying at least a preview of a suggested table feature in the user interface.