Patent Document ID: 9740674
Application ID: 13524183

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for populating at least one field in a dialog of a spreadsheet program module, the method comprising: determining that there is no text in the at least one field in the dialog of a spreadsheet; determining at least one editable non-textual formatting characteristic in a cell in the spreadsheet; editing the at least one field in the dialog to correspond to the at least one editable non-textual formatting characteristic of the cell; and executing a find operation for identifying other cells with the at least one editable non-textual formatting characteristic.

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Claim 7:
7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein determining at least one editable non-textual formatting characteristic of the cell in the spreadsheet comprises determining at least one editable non-textual formatting characteristic of the cell without text.