Patent ID: 7797639

Claim:
A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for performing a method comprising: rendering a content display including at least a portion of a current page of a document that includes multiple pages; and rendering a page bar control element that provides a visual representation of a plurality of documents including the document rendered on the content display, wherein each of the plurality of documents comprises a plurality of pages, wherein the visual representation includes a plurality of markers, each document in the plurality of documents is represented by at least one marker and each marker represents one or more pages of at least one document of the plurality of documents, and wherein a background of a marker corresponding to the current page on the content display corresponds to a background of the current page on the content display, and wherein the background of a respective marker corresponding to a non-current page on the content display differs from the background of the marker corresponding to the current page on the content display, and wherein the background of the respective marker corresponding to the non-current page is the same as the background of at least one other respective marker corresponding to another non-current page of the document rendered on the content display such that markers corresponding to non-current pages are associated with the same background, wherein upon receipt of a preview request on the page bar control element, at least a portion of a non-current page can be instantly previewed on the display device, and wherein a background of a respective marker corresponding to a non-current page that is currently previewed differs from both the background of the marker corresponding to the current page on the content display and the background of the marker corresponding to the non-current page and is the same as a background of at least one other marker corresponding to another non-current page that has been previously previewed.