Patent ID: 8756518

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, via a document panel, a selection of a stack of objects of a document presented in the document panel; in response to the received selection, invoking an object preview panel comprising a plurality of objects, wherein each of the plurality of objects in the object preview panel is an editable representation of a corresponding object of the selected stack of objects of the document presented in the document panel, wherein the stack of objects in the document panel are displayed in the document according to a stack order, and wherein the plurality of objects in the object preview panel are displayed in an unstacked display and non-overlapping fashion, and the object preview panel only shows the unstacked non-overlapping objects and a corresponding stack order for each of those objects; and receiving input, via the object preview panel, for one of the plurality of objects in the object preview panel indicating an edit operation to change an appearance of the corresponding object of the stack of objects of the document, wherein an effect of the operation is presented both within the preview panel and within the document panel.