Patent ID: 7640499

Claim:
A text editing apparatus which edits document data of pages containing objects, comprising: a processor; a memory; a display unit adapted to display, on a display, a user interface window including a preview image of a page selected from the document data and, for a plurality of pages contained in the document data: a horizontal projection pane that displays a plurality of horizontally projected images obtained by projecting objects contained in the respective pages in a horizontal direction of the pages, and a vertical projection pane that displays a plurality of vertically projected images obtained by projecting the objects in a vertical direction of the pages; a selection unit adapted to select one or a plurality of horizontally projected images or vertically projected images displayed by said horizontal or vertical projection panes, and thereby selecting objects corresponding to the selected projected images; and an editing processing unit adapted to execute editing processing for the selected objects in the user interface window, wherein said editing processing unit executes the editing processing for an object which is contained in a page different from the page of the preview image while displaying the preview image.