Patent 7831902 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on November, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Displaying interrelated changes in a grid may be provided. Grid cells in a document may be modified when either a grid cell is directly changed by a user, or when a grid cell changes due to information residing in another cell changing. The modified grid cells allow the user to perceive how certain changes to data in one grid cell can affect other grid cells.