Methods and systems for creating, interacting with, and utilizing a superactive document

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for performing a method of providing a combined interface-and-document, the method comprising:

• simultaneously displaying a first instance of a complete document and an interview pane, wherein the interview pane is displayed via at least one of juxtaposing or superimposing the interview pane relative to the complete document, wherein at least text within the complete document is directly editable while the interview pane is an active state;
• iteratively triggering transformation of the first instance of the complete document, to produce a second instance of the complete document, via user interaction received within the interview pane to vary strict content within the complete document, to vary at least one content source supplying information to the complete document, and to vary at least one formatting parameter of the complete document;
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• dynamically reflowing the complete document upon each iterative transformation of the complete document including automatically adding or removing a chart or graph from the complete document upon user modification of numerical data via the interview pane.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for performing a method of providing a combined interface-and-document, the method comprising:

• simultaneously displaying a first instance of a complete document and an interview pane, wherein the interview pane is displayed via at least one of juxtaposing or superimposing the interview pane relative to the complete document, wherein the complete document is directly accessible while the interview pane is in an active state to permit addition or removal of at least text in the document independent of the interview pane;
• iteratively triggering transformation of the first instance of the document, to produce a second instance of the document, via user interaction received within the interview pane to vary strict content within the document, to vary at least one content source supplying information to the document, and to vary at least one formatting parameter of the document, wherein varying strict content within the document via the interview pane includes at least one of adding text in free-form, deleting text in free-form, adding a page, and deleting a page;
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• dynamically reflowing the document upon each iterative transformation of the document, wherein dynamically reflowing the document comprises:
• upon user modification of at least one of a first numerical data value in the complete document or an external numerical data source in the complete document via the interview pane, automatically recalculating other numerical data values appearing in a text of the complete document.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for performing a method of providing a combined interface-and-document, the method comprising:

• simultaneously displaying a first instance of a complete document and an interview pane, wherein the interview pane is displayed via at least one of juxtaposing or superimposing the interview pane relative to the complete document, wherein the complete document is directly accessible while the interview pane is in an active state to permit addition or removal of at least text directly in the document independent of the interview pane;
• iteratively triggering transformation of the first instance of the directly accessible complete document, to produce a second instance of the directly accessible complete document, via user interaction received within the interview pane to vary strict content within the directly accessible complete document, to vary at least one content source supplying information to the directly accessible complete document, and to vary at least one formatting parameter of the directly accessible complete document,
• wherein receiving user interaction within the interview pane comprises:
• receiving user input that is related to information stored in an external source and retrieving predetermined external data from the external data source, wherein the external data source is separate and independent of the directly accessible complete document;
• varying the strict content of the directly accessible complete document via modifying the information in the directly accessible complete document by utilizing the received user input and the predetermined external data;
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• storing, in the external data source, the modified information from the directly accessible complete document related to the predetermined external data to cause updating of the predetermined external data in the external data source;
• and dynamically reflowing the directly accessible complete document upon each iterative transformation of the directly accessible complete document.