Patent ID: 8549435

Claim:
A method comprising: selecting a piece of data from a collection of one or more pieces of data to be inserted in a document; generating a thumbnail that includes at least some content associated with the selected piece of data, wherein the thumbnail is independent of the document; displaying the thumbnail in a display in place of or with a cursor, wherein the cursor is associated with specifying an insertion location in the document; detecting a modification to a document zoom percentage for the document; identifying that a thumbnail zoom setting for the thumbnail specifies that a thumbnail zoom percentage for the thumbnail is to remain constant, wherein the thumbnail zoom setting is independent of the document zoom percentage; based on the thumbnail zoom setting, maintaining the thumbnail zoom percentage; modifying the thumbnail zoom setting to specify that the thumbnail zoom percentage is to change in response to an additional modification to the document zoom percentage; detecting the additional modification to the document zoom percentage; and based on the thumbnail zoom setting as modified, modifying the thumbnail zoom percentage.