Transient indication of recently-changed object elements

A computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable medium;
• and
• program code on the computer readable medium that when executed by a processor causes a computer device to perform the functions of:
• detecting one of an addition of an object or a change to an object within the document;
• associating at least one of a time date-stamp and an embellishment of the object, indicative of a relative time at which the change was made to the object, wherein, when the embellishment is a pre-specified color, the pre-specified color is different from a standard color of other information within the document;
• when an embellishment is associated with the object, displaying the object with the embellishment, wherein the embellishment provides a visual indication of both a location and a change status of the object that was recently changed within the document, relative to a remainder of the information within the document;
• and
• when a time date-stamp is associated with the object, displaying the object along with the time date-stamp within the document to provide a visual indication of the time and date at which the change was made to the object relative to a remainder of information within the document.

A computer device comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• an application executing on the processor and which generates one or more documents with content that is changeable;
• a utility having program instructions that when executed by the processor along with the application causes the computer device to provide the functions of:
• detecting one of an addition of an object or a change to an object within the document;
• associating at least one of a time date-stamp and an embellishment of the object, indicative of a relative time at which the change was made to the object, wherein, when the embellishment is a pre-specified color, the pre-specified color is different from a standard color of other information within the document;
• when an embellishment is associated with the object, displaying the object with the embellishment, wherein the embellishment provides a visual indication of both a location and a change status of the object that was recently changed within the document, relative to a remainder of the information within the document;
• and
• when a time date-stamp is associated with the object, displaying the object along with the time date-stamp within the document to provide a visual indication of the time and date at which the change was made to the object relative to a remainder of information within the document.