Patent ID: 7526719

Claim:
A system comprising: a device to persistently store a table style, the table style specifying properties inherited by a table object displayed in a computer-aided design application, the table object including a title cell, header cells and data cells that each have properties and data, the table style including: an identifier to identify the table style that designates properties associated with the table object; a flow direction designator to specify which direction the table object is organized; horizontal spacing data to specify spacing between horizontal gridlines of the table object and embedded data; vertical spacing data to specify spacing between vertical gridlines of the table object and the embedded data; a first suppression flag to indicate whether the title cell is displayed in the table object; a second suppression flag to indicate whether the header cells are displayed in the table object; header cell properties to specify properties associated with each header cell; data cell properties to specify properties associated with each data cell; title cell properties to specify properties associated with the title cell where the title cell properties comprise: first title line weight data to specify a thickness of a horizontal top gridline of the title cell; second title line weight data to specify a thickness of a horizontal inside gridline of the title cell; third title line weight data to specify a thickness of a horizontal bottom gridline of the title cell; fourth title line weight data to specify a thickness of a vertical left gridline of the title cell; fifth title line weight data to specify a thickness of a vertical inside gridline of the title cell; and sixth title line weight data to specify a thickness of a vertical right gridline of the title cell.