Patent ID: 7319538

Claim:
A method for modifying a printing attribute on a graphical user interface (GUI), the method comprising the computer-implemented steps of: displaying, on the GUI, a plurality of user interface objects that represent a plurality of overlapping tabbed pages, wherein a first tabbed page from the plurality of tabbed pages is displayed on top of and substantially covers the other tabbed pages from the plurality of tabbed pages; displaying, on the GUI, with one or more of the plurality of user interface objects that represent the first tabbed page, a user interface object associated with the printing attribute, wherein the user interface object has an associated embedded link, and wherein the visual appearance of the user interface object indicates that the user interface object has the associated embedded link; and in response to a user selection of the user interface object, using the associated embedded link to cause one or more other user interface objects that represent a second tabbed page from the plurality of tabbed pages to be displayed on the GUI on top of and substantially covering the other tabbed pages from the plurality of tabbed pages, wherein the second tabbed page includes one or more controls for modifying the printing attribute, and allow modification of the printing attribute via the one or more controls included on the second tabbed page displayed on the GUI, wherein modification of the printing attribute was not allowed by the GUI prior to the user selection of the user interface object and display of the second tabbed page.