Patent ID: 7120867
Filing Date: 2006-10-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of formatting a computer-readable document comprising a plurality of objects having directly-assigned attributes, the method comprising: detecting objects, in said computer-readable document, having directly-assigned attributes, wherein each attributes in said directly-assigned attributes was assigned individually to at least one object in said objects by a user while said user had said computer-readable document opened, and further wherein each of said directly assigned attributes specify individual formatting of one of said objects within said computer-readable document; creating, automatically, a conversion style element for every detected combination of directly-assigned attributes in the computer-readable document; and replacing directly-assigned attributes of each detected object by a reference to one conversion style element wherein said one conversion style element corresponds to said directly-assigned attributes in formatting of said each detected object, wherein an object, in said computer-readable document, having a directly assigned attribute is detected by said method, and a same object, in said computer-readable document, without a directly assigned attribute is not detected by said method.