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Abstract

A table editing apparatus spares users wasteful editing work in determining relative positional relations between cell boundaries of a table. The apparatus includes a cell boundary movement designating unit, a cell boundary position coincidence judging unit, and a cell boundary moving unit. The cell boundary movement designating unit designates a cell boundary to be moved and a direction in which to move the cell boundary. The cell boundary position coincidence judging unit checks cell boundaries retained by the cell boundary holding unit to see whether there is any cell boundary which is also a vertical (horizontal) cell boundary and which has the same horizontal (vertical) position as the designated cell boundary. Given the judgment from the cell boundary position coincidence judging unit, the cell boundary moving unit moves the designated cell boundary in the cell boundary holding unit to a position such that the structure of the table is changed. This eliminates wasteful cell moving operations that can leave the tabular structure unchanged.

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