Patent ID: 7761335

Claim:
An article sales data processing apparatus which processes article sales data based on data associated with a commercial transaction input via an input section, comprising: a display unit which displays the article sales data, an output section which outputs specification data of commercial transactions containing the article sales data, a storage section which electronically stores journal data items of respective transactions in a computer medium, the journal data items each corresponding to the specification data of one of the commercial transactions in an order in accordance with a respective time at which each of the transactions is made, a separation data inserting section which inserts an electronic separation data item in the computer medium between the stored journal data items of the transactions consecutively made, a display controller which displays, on the display unit, each of the journal data items stored in the storage section, a scroll processor which scrolls the journal data items displayed on the display unit, a touch panel sensor which is provided in an area, of the display unit, in which at least the journal data items are displayed and scrolled, a recognizing unit which recognizes that at least one of the journal data items displayed in a touch-operated area is specified from the journal data items displayed and scrolled on the display unit, a searching unit which searches the storage section for the separation data items inserted before and after the journal data item which is recognized to have been specified by the recognizing unit, an extracting section which extracts the journal data items between the separation data items searched for by the searching unit from the storage section, and a display switching section which displays, on the display unit, the journal data item extracted by the extracting section, separately from the journal data items which are not extracted.