Patent ID: 8271904

Claim:
An image forming apparatus which executes jobs to form images on an output paper, comprising; a job memory section which stores job information indicating setting contents of the jobs, each of the setting contents including at least one of an output paper size and an output paper type; a display section which has both a first region and a second region in a single screen, the first and the second regions never overlapping with each other; and a control section which controls contents to be displayed on the display section, wherein, the control section controls to display a job list in the first region in the single screen based on the job information stored in the job memory section, and also in parallel with displaying the job list, display, in the second region in the single screen, each of the setting contents of a job selected from the job list displayed in the first region, wherein a function of an operation button is given to each of the displayed setting contents of the selected job in the second region, find, in cases where the operation button is selected, by utilizing the setting content of the selected job corresponding to the selected operation button as a search key, a matching job including a setting content of at least one of an output paper size and an output paper type respectively matching the output paper size or the output paper type of the setting content corresponding to the selected operation button, and extract the matching job from the job list displayed in the first region, wherein the job list is displayed in such a configuration that the extracted matching job can be distinguished from one or more other jobs in the job list.