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Techniques to create structured document templates using enhanced content controls

A content control and document template technology, applied in special data processing applications, instruments, calculations, etc., can solve problems such as difficult document templates

Active Publication Date: 2012-10-10
MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC
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Therefore, conventional developer tools have difficulty producing document templates capable of producing such richly formatted content and yet maintaining a separation between the view and object model of the underlying application used to generate the document template

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[0026] Various embodiments relate to techniques for creating structured document templates for applications. Some embodiments relate, inter alia, to techniques for creating structured document templates by using an enhanced set of content controls to define individual document portions of the document template. Enhanced content controls can be implemented for any application, including word processing applications, spreadsheet applications, presentation applications, and others.

[0027] Customized document sections of document templates can be created in a number of different ways. For example, existing applications may produce documents using markup language techniques such as importing custom-defined Extensible Markup Language (XML) schemas to provide context around word processing documents, spreadsheet documents, presentation documents, and other productivity applications. Semantic markup. An XML schema is a description of a type of XML document, usually expressed in te...

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Techniques to create structured documents and document templates using enhanced content controls are described. An apparatus may comprise an application to generate a document from a document template. The application may comprise a document template component operative to retrieve a document template comprising multiple document parts. The application may further comprise a content control component operative to manage a content control embedded in a document part of the document template. The content control may be associated with a data source arranged to store richly formatted content presented by the content control without necessarily requiring the data storage to be written in any particular way. The content control component may synchronize any changes to the formatted content between the content control and the data store. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to creating structured document templates. Background technique [0002] Productivity applications can be used to create customized document templates with structured and reusable content. A document template may include a collection of reusable document parts, each document part having a specially designed presentation format and content type. The customized document template can then be used as a starting point for creating highly structured documents. For example, a company may create a report template with customized document sections, such as a first field for a title, a second field for a date, a third field for an image, and so on. Individuals within the company can then reuse the report template to generate corporate reports with a uniform corporate format and desired set of content. [0003] Custom document parts can be created in a variety of different ways, such as by using custom-defined content controls, ma...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F17/30
CPCG06F17/248G06F40/186
Inventor T·戴维斯M·桑德兰
Owner MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC