Patent ID: 6397233
Filing Date: 2002-05-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A document processing apparatus which displays a created document on a display screen and carries out an editing process with respect to the created document in response to an instruction from a pointing device which points on the display screen, said document processing apparatus comprising:a detecting device detecting whether a document region change request which requests a change of a document region is issued; a changing device, responsive to said detecting device, changing a first document region on the display screen defined by said pointing device to a prescribed region defined by said pointing device in response to said detecting device detecting issuance of the document region change request; and an adjusting device, responsive to said changing device, adjusting a data size and a data interval of a document element in a second document region, which is subject to change due to the change in the first document region made by said changing device, corresponding to the change in the first document region, to enable addition of a document to a created document using a free format, both said first and second document regions being displayed within a common display region having a fixed size regardless of the change in the first document region.