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A method for the intelligent, in-line, dynamic editing of documents containing mixed object types on a computer work station is disclosed. The mixed object types may be text objects, draw graphics objects, business graphics objects, and tables objects. The editor executes actions on use selected obj

A method for the intelligent, in-line, dynamic editing of documents containing mixed object types on a computer work station is disclosed. The mixed object types may be text objects, draw graphics objects, business graphics objects, and tables objects. The editor executes actions on use selected objects and attributes based on internal knowledge of the object type selected rather than by explicit user commands. This procedure provides a simple user interface that makes manipulation of objects and attributes and command execution transparent to the user.

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A method for the intelligent, in-line, dynamic editing of documents containing mixed object types on a computer work station comprising the steps of: (a) displaying a document and a command bar on the computer work station, said command bar containing at least generic actions which may be chosen by

A method for the intelligent, in-line, dynamic editing of documents containing mixed object types on a computer work station comprising the steps of: (a) displaying a document and a command bar on the computer work station, said command bar containing at least generic actions which may be chosen by a user in the editing of the document; (b) determining if an object on the document has been selected by the user for editing; (c) determining the type of object selected by the user for editing; and (d) displaying in said command bar editing actions which are specific to the type of object selected by the user for editing. The method recited in claim 1 further comprising the steps of: (e) determining if an edit action has been selected by the user for editing a selected object; (f) processing the edit action selected by the user for the selected object and automatically reformatting the document as required; and (g) redisplaying the document as edited and reformatted. The method recited in claim 2 further comprising the steps of: (h) determining if the user has selected a terminating action; and (i) ending the editing of the document when the terminating action is selected.