Patent Document ID: 7685529
Application ID: 11377970

Base Claim:
1. In a computer system having a display and a user interface selection device, a method of providing a graphical user interface on the display, comprising the steps of: (a) displaying a formatting style name on the graphic user interface; (b) displaying text on the graphical user interface, the text formatted in the named style displayed in said step (a); and (c) displaying at least one visual aid on the display indicating a relationship between the style name displayed in said step (a) and the text displayed in said step (b), said step (c) comprising the steps of: (c1) generating a color adjacent to the formatting style name displayed in said step (a), and (c2) automatically assigning the same color for display adjacent the text displayed in said step (b).

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Claim 3:
3. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein said step (c2) of automatically assigning the same color for display adjacent the text further comprises the step of displaying a box in a margin along side the text.