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US 2014/0237339 A1Published application
For a given cell in a spreadsheet, evaluating an unlimited number of conditional formatting rules and applying multiple corresponding formats to the cell
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsBenjamin C. Chamberlain, Bruce Cordell Jones, Christopher M. Street, Eric B. Vigesaa
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Abstract
Generally described, embodiments of the present invention relate to applying and evaluating conditional formatting rules to a given range of cells. Additionally, multiple conditional formatting rules may be evaluated to TRUE for the same cell contained in a user interface and multiple formats applied to that cell.
Claims1
A method for evaluating a plurality of conditional formatting rules applied to a user interface, the method comprising:
- identifying a cell contained in the user interface associated with a plurality of conditional formatting;
- identifying a first conditional formatting rule for formatting the cell contained in the user interface, the first conditional formatting rule having a first priority and a first formatting
- determining, with a computing device, if the first conditional formatting rule is satisfied for the cell;
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- if the first conditional formatting rule is satisfied for the cell, applying only the first formatting.
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