Mapping a gesture and/or electronic pen attribute(s) to an advanced productivity action

A method, comprising:

• mapping a first type of pen marking to a predefined table style for formatting tables of electronic documents;
• mapping a second type of pen marking to an advanced table manipulation that involves adding or removing cells from the tables of the electronic documents;
• receiving a trigger event related to an electronic pen, the trigger event indicating a change to one or more marking attributes of the electronic pen;
• in response to the trigger event, selecting a particular action to apply to a particular table of a particular electronic document based at least upon the one or more marking attributes of the electronic pen, wherein the particular action comprises applying the predefined table style to the particular table in instances when the trigger event indicates a change of the one or more marking attributes to the first type of pen marking and applying the advanced table manipulation to the particular table in other instances when the trigger event indicates a change of the one or more marking attributes to the second type of pen marking;
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• modifying the particular table of the particular electronic document in accordance with the particular action.

A computer storage media storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed, cause a computing device to:

• during editing of a particular table of a particular electronic document on a canvas of an application, receive a trigger event related to an electronic pen, the trigger event selecting a particular type of pen marking for the electronic pen;
• access mappings of different pen marking types to different table actions, the mappings including a first mapping of a first pen marking type to a predefined table style for formatting tables of electronic documents and a second mapping of a second pen marking type to an advanced table manipulation that involves adding or removing cells from the tables of the electronic documents;
• based at least upon the mappings and the particular type of pen marking selected for the electronic pen, determine a particular table action to apply to the particular table of the particular electronic document, wherein the particular table action comprises applying the predefined table style to the particular table in first instances when the particular type of pen marking is the first pen marking type and the particular table action comprises the advanced table manipulation in second instances when the particular type of pen marking is the second pen marking type;
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• modify the particular table of the particular electronic document in accordance with the particular table action.