Patent Document ID: 4441829
Application ID: 06305253

Base Claim:
1. In an interactive text processing system which includes a keyboard and a display unit and in which a document input by way of a keyboard is stored, displayed to an operator, and further processed in accordance with directions supplied to said system by an operator interacting with the keyboard and display unit, an improved method for copying one or more pages of text into a document from another part of the same document or from a different document, said method comprising: displaying to the operator the document into which one or more pages of text data is to be copied; signalling to the system the location within said document into which the text data is to be copied; specifying to the system the identification and location of said text data; scanning said specified text data for data control instructions contained within said specified text data specifying added text data to be included within said specified text data; adding said specified added text data to said specified text data prior to copying said specified text data into said document; and copying said specified text data as modified by said added text data into said document at the signalled location to provide a revised document.

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Claim 2:
2. The method recited in claim 1 in which specified text data up to ten pages can be copied into said document.