Patent ID: 8296646

Claim:
A method of focusing the display of tabular data having multiple cells arranged in rows and columns, said method comprising: defining a defined area in tabular data to be displayed in a focused display; determining indicators to be placed at the top side, bottom side, right side and left side of the focused display, said indicators to be one of an expand indicator or a collapse indicator, said expand indicator indicating that cells on that side of the focused display are collapsed and may be expanded, and said collapse indicator indicating that cells on that side of the focused display are expanded and may be collapsed; selecting at least one of the indicators for focusing the display; and expanding or collapsing the display of the tabular data to give the focused display, the expanding or collapsing determined by whether the selected indicator is an expand indicator or a collapse indicator such that expanding of the display includes adding cells of data to the selected side and collapsing of the display includes removing cells of data from the selected side.