Patent ID: 7793224

Claim:
A method in which at least one computer system accesses instructions from computer storage and executes the instructions to perform steps comprising: receiving a selection of content displayed in a first portion of a first document; identifying a reference in the first document to first formatting information currently applied to the selected content; identifying second formatting information in the first portion of the first document that currently formats non-selected content displayed in a second portion of the first document, the non-selected content exclusive of the selected content; including an identification of the non-selected content in the first formatting information; upon receiving a request to paste the selected content into a second document, pasting the selected content into the second document, the selected content formatted in the second document according to the first formatting information; based on the identification of the non-selected content in the first formatting information, carrying over the non-selected content from the first document into the second document; wherein identifying the reference in the first document includes: identifying a reference to a source located outside of the first document, the source providing the first formatting information currently applied to the selected content; accessing the first formatting information from the source; displaying the first formatting information via a prompt; receiving a selection of a subset of the first formatting information; wherein pasting the selected content into the second document includes: formatting the selected content according to the subset of the first formatting information; wherein including the identification of the non-selected content in the first formatting information includes: including, in the subset of the first formatting information, an identification of: (i) a displayed first document title and (ii) a graphic located, in the first document, within a particular distance from the selected content; and wherein carrying over the non-selected content includes: pasting the graphic in the second document; and pasting the first document title as a title of the second document.