Replacing a designated character string, or styling within the designated scope of tagged edited content in a document

摘要

A method, system and computer program product for providing scoping editing operations in a document using a document editing computer application. The method, program system, and computer product may include tagging each incidence of editing with the identity of the author responsible for the applicable incidence, the date, the date and time, document phase, author role, or any combination thereof. The method, program system, and computer product may further include presenting a mechanism for designating a scope of tagged content by author, date, date and time of day, document phase, author role, or a combination thereof, and locating a selection of at least some of the tagged content according to the designated scope of the tagged content.

主权项

1. A method for scoping editing operations in a document using a document editing computer application, the method comprising:
tagging each incidence of edited content of the document with an identity of an author responsible for an applicable incidence, a date of the applicable incidence, a time of day of the applicable incidence, a document phase, and an author role; presenting a mechanism for designating a scope of tagged edited content to be found, wherein the mechanism comprises features for respectively designating the author or authors, the date, the time of day, the document phase, the author role, a character string, styling of characters, or any combination thereof, wherein such presenting a mechanism for designating a scope of tagged edited content comprises presenting a mechanism for receiving from a user a selection that the user wants to search for content not edited by one or more authors and the affirmative exclusion by a user of one or more authors by selecting the one or more authors to exclude the one or more authors; finding a selection of at least some of the tagged edited content according to the designated scope of the tagged edited content and the designated character string, styling, or combination thereof; and replacing the designated character string, styling, or combination thereof within the designated scope of tagged edited content in the document.