Patent ID: 7356760

Claim:
A method for editing an electronic document of text and graphic objects, said method comprising: displaying said electronic document of said text and said graphic objects in a first display object, said graphic objects being positioned in spaces in said text; automatically creating a second display object in response to at least one user input, including automatically separating said graphic objects from said electronic document in response to said at least one user input such that said graphic objects are positioned in one of said first and second display objects and said electronic document is positioned in the other display object of said first and second display objects; modifying said electronic document in said other display object; and automatically placing at least one of said graphic objects back in said spaces in said text of said electronic document in said other display object in response to at least one other user input, wherein said automatically creating said second display object includes recording positional information of said graphic objects associated with said text and said first display object and wherein said recording said positional information includes recording vertical positions of said graphic objects relative to said text and horizontal positions of said graphic objects relative to said first display object.