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US 2003/0117447 A1Published application
Individually locked cells on a spreadsheet
OwnerP. Gayle Mujica, Michelle A. Millerinventors
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Abstract
A computer spreadsheet application program on a graphing calculator or other computer that allows the user to lock and unlock individual or blocks of cells, and identifies those cells to the user. Similarly, other embodiments include the same user interface functionality in a ROM software application package that is executed on a graphing calculator or other handheld device.
Claims15
A user interface for a spreadsheet computer program comprising:
- a cursor operable by user input which indicates at least one currently selected cell;
- and
- a lock cell input which immediately locks any cell currently selected by the cursor by changing a status of any currently selected cell to a locked status.
A handheld computing device comprising:
- a screen capable of displaying spreadsheet rows and columns for a spreadsheet application;
- an input device for operating the computing device and entering user responses;
- a processor for executing programming that provides a user interface to the spreadsheet application wherein the user interface further comprises:
- a cursor operable by user input through the input device, wherein the cursor indicates at least one currently selected cell;
- and
- a lock cell input which immediately locks any cell currently selected by the cursor by changing a status of any currently selected cell to a locked status.
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A graphing calculator comprising:
- a screen capable of displaying spreadsheet rows and columns for a spreadsheet application;
- an input device for operating the computing device and entering user responses;
- a processor for executing programming that provides a user interface to the spreadsheet application wherein the user interface further comprises:
- a cursor operable by user input through the input device, wherein the cursor indicates at least one currently selected cell;
- and
- a lock cell input which immediately locks any cell currently selected by the cursor by changing a status of any currently selected cell to a locked status.
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