Patent ID: 7454471

Claim:
A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing a method for automatically sending a pre-selected portion of a document to a recipient, the method comprising: receiving a pre-selected portion of a document from a first application; determining content in the pre-selected portion of the document; and in response to determining the content, changing a user interface to correspond with the content wherein the user interface comprises a dynamic send command that corresponds to content of the pre-selected portion of the document and changes in response to the content of the pre-selected portion; receiving a command to send the pre-selected portion of the document to a recipient via electronic mail; in response to receiving the command to send the pre-selected portion of the document, coding the pre-selected portion of the document for transmission via electronic mail; launching an electronic mail application program, and inserting the coded pre-selected portion of the document into an e-mail message; detecting a command to apply an interactive control to the pre-selected portion of the document; in response to receiving a command to apply an interactive control to the pre-selected portion, coding an interactive control for the pre-selected portion, and inserting the coded interactive control into the e-mail message with the coded pre-selected portion of the document so that the recipient can apply the interactive control to the pre-selected portion without opening the first application; and sending the coded pre-selected portion of the document and the interactive control to the recipient via electronic mail.