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• window adornments which, while permitting quick access to functionality, can crowd the screen. This may leave minimal space for a document to be viewed and/or modified.
• applications which include navigation adornments there's a danger in allowing onlookers to see navigation indicators which may inadvertently provide confidential or sensitive information.
• windows include navigation adornments such as notebook buttons, section tabs, and page tabs.
• Embodiments provide for receiving a request to hide navigation information displayed in a plurality of navigation regions within a window, each of the navigation regions showing navigation information for both current content and related content. Navigation information for related content in each of the navigation regions is hidden from view. Any available window space created is used to enlarge a content region showing current content, all while maintaining the window at the same size and location.
• Figure 1 depicts an exemplary computing operating environment.
• Figures 2-6 depict a window interface for a content editing application.
• Figure 7 depicts a method for creating a protected view in a content editing application.
• Document editing software may integrate functionality to quickly hide window adornments which may reveal sensitive or confidential information to on-lookers.
• Content editing applications may include software having content editing functionality including, but not limited to, word processors, note taking applications, presentation software, graphics editors, website editors, spreadsheets and so forth.
• an embodiment may include a computing device, such as computing device 100.
• computer device 100 may include at least one processing unit 102, and memory 104.
• memory 104 may be volatile (e.g., Random Access Memory (RAM)), non-volatile (e.g., Read-Only Memory (ROM), Flash, etc.), or some combination thereof.
• RAM Random Access Memory
• ROM Read-Only Memory
• Memory 104 may serve as a storage location for operating system 105, one or more applications 106, and may include program data 107, as well as other programs.
• applications 106 may include content editing application 120.
• the basic computing device configuration is contained within dashed- line box 108, computing device 100 may include additional features and functionality.
• computing device 100 may include additional data storage components, including both removable storage 109 (e.g., floppy disks, memory cards, compact disc (CD) ROMs, digital video discs (DVDs), external hard drives, universal serial bus (USB) key drives, etc.) and non-removable storage 110 (e.g., magnetic hard drives).
• removable storage 109 e.g., floppy disks, memory cards, compact disc (CD) ROMs, digital video discs (DVDs), external hard drives, universal serial bus (USB) key drives, etc.
• non-removable storage 110 e.g., magnetic hard drives
• Computer storage media may. include media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information, including computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data.
• Memory 104, removable storage 109, and non-removable storage 110 are all examples of computer storage media. Further examples of such media include RAM, ROM, electrically-erasable programmable ROM (EEPROM), flash memory, CD-ROM, DVD, cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disks, and so forth. Any such computer storage media may be accessed by components which are a part of computing device 100, or which are external to computing device 100 and connected via a communications link (e.g., Bluetooth, USB, parallel, serial, infrared, etc.).
• a communications link e.g., Bluetooth, USB, parallel, serial, infrared, etc.
• Computing device 100 may also include input devices 112, such as keyboards, mice, pens, microphone, touchpad, touch-display, etc.
• Output devices 114 may include displays, speakers, printers, and so forth. Additional forms of storage, input, and output devices may be utilized.
• Computing device 100 may also include one or more communication connections 116 which allow the computing device to communicate with other computing devices 118, such as over a network (e.g., a local area network (LAN), the Internet, etc.).
• Communication media in the form of computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data in a modulated data signal, may be shared with and by device 100 via communication connection 116.
• Modulated data signal may mean a signal that has one or more of its characteristics set or changed in such a manner as to encode information in the signal, and may include a modulated carrier wave or other transport mechanism.
• FIG. 2 depicts an example of a window 201 presenting an interface for content editing application 120.
• Content region 202 includes the portion of window 201 for reading and/or editing the current document.
• the document may include text, drawings, images, and so forth, including ink drawing 210. Because of the size of content region 202, only a portion of the document can be viewed, as evidenced by the partially hidden ink drawing 210.
• Window 201 may include "Protected View" button 211, whose use will be explained further down.
• FIG. 3 depicts window 201 again having multiple window regions or adornments highlighted.
• window 201 includes window frame 303, which may include window borders, window controls, and title.
• Menu bar 304 provides access to a broad array of functionality which may or may not be tailored for the individual user.
• Toolbar 305 also provides access to functionality, although more limited and more targeted typically than menu bar 304.
• Status bar 309 may provide additional information about content currently displayed or other status indicators.
• Regions 306, 307, and 308 may be described as navigation regions. This subset of window adornments may provide a user with a context for the location or categorization of the current document.
• Notebook selection region 306 provides a selectable listing of notebooks recently opened and/or modified by a user.
• a notebook may be representative of a folder in a file system.
• Section tab region 307 may break down the content of a currently selected notebook into meaningful sections.
• a section may be representative of a file in a file system.
• a user may be able to review the tabs and click on one, causing content from the selected section to be revealed.
• Page tab region 308 may further subdivide the contents of a section into meaningful pages or bookmarks.
• Other window regions may be utilized, and those shown here may not be utilized depending on the particular software application and interface configuration.
• Each of the three navigation regions 306, 307, and 308 may include information of a personal, confidential, inappropriate, or sensitive nature.
• the currently selected section (“March 2006") includes content broken down in page tab region 308.
• This content includes tabs describing potentially personal (“NCAA Tourney”), sensitive (“Product Bugs”), and/or confidential (“Revenue 2006”) information.
• NAA Tourney potentially personal
• Product Bugs sensitive
• Revenue 2006 confidential
• Just knowing that there are product bugs may affect a salesperson's ability to sell the product.
• a user of content editing application 120 may wish to hide or obscure sensitive portions of navigation regions 306, 307, and 308, preventing sensitive information from being inadvertently seen.
• a user may also wish to hide navigation regions 306, 307, and 308 entirely.
• a user may want the window frame 303 to maintain its current location and size so as to allow viewing of other on-screen information. Expanding the window frame 303 to encompass the whole screen and removing nearly all window adornments may not be what the user wishes to do.
• using interface controls to close each region or adornment individually may be unnecessarily time- consuming and cumbersome.
• FIG. 4 depicts window 201 having protected navigation regions.
• current notebook selector 402 current section tab 403, and current page tab 404.
• Related content may encompass content which shares a file or folder location with current content, or shares other contextual information such as categorization, for example.
• Window frame 303 whether maximized in the window or not, maintains its shape and location, allowing a user to easily view or access window information, other windows, taskbars, and so forth.
• a user may click "Protected View” button 211 from FIG. 2.
• a user may use a hot key or keyboard shortcut (e.g., the "FH” key), a menu item, or any other control or controls.
• content editing application 120 may hide window or navigation components using programming calls to operating system 105.
• "Protected View” button 211 may be replaced with "Normal View” button 411, which allows a user to return to the normal view, with hidden components made visible.
• FIG. 5 depicts an additional embodiment of window 201 having protected navigation regions.
• window 201 having protected navigation regions.
• navigation regions 306, 307, and 308 have been entirely hidden, vastly expanding the area available to content region 202. Not only does this prevent a user from viewing potentially sensitive information, it also makes the screen appear less crowded and/or confusing for on-lookers.
• Window frame 303 retains its size and location, as above. Accessing this protected view may involve the use of a toolbar button, menu selection, hot key, keyboard shortcut, and so forth.
• "Protected View” button 211 may be replaced with "Normal View” button 411.
• FIG. 6 depicts a third embodiment of window 201 having protected navigation regions.
• menu bar region 304 and status bar region 309 have also been hidden.
• window 201 (with window frame 303 still retaining its same size and location) to be both protected and highly clutter- free, in addition to enlarging the editable/viewable space of content region 202.
• toolbar 305 may be modified so as to include the commands most relevant to the present operation, whether that may be drawing, entering text, writing words in electronic ink, and so forth. This may occur in order to replace any commonly used functionality from the now-hidden menu.
• "Protected View” button 211 may be replaced with "Normal View” button 411.
• the three protected views shown need not be mutually exclusive.
• a user may repeatedly press the hot key for protected view, and cycle through each of the protected views, such that pressing the hot key four times would cycle through each of the three alternatives and back to normal view.
• the embodiments of a protected view shown and described here are not intended to be the only possible forms of protected view.
• Other interfaces may utilize the concepts and methods described above.
• FIG. 7 is a flow diagram depicting a method for creating a protected view.
• a software application receives a request to protect the view in the current window.
• the request may come in the form of a mouse click on a button or menu option, a keyboard stroke or key combination, a verbal command, and so forth.
• navigation or contextual information is hidden, preventing on-lookers from inadvertently seeing sensitive or confidential information.

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