Patent ID: 8351066

Claim:
An image forming apparatus being configured to provide a plurality of functions, comprising: a display section being configured to display a plurality of setting items as a group, the setting items relating to only one of the plurality of functions: a storage section being configured to store a single or plurality of groups of setting items relating to a function in a time-series manner as history data in the storage section when the function is provided; and a continuation reception section being configured to receive an option of whether or not the provided function is to be continued to be executed, the continuation reception section being configured to cause the display section to display the group of the setting items relating to the provided function and to display the history data in a list form to select one from the single or plurality of groups of the setting items relating to the provided function when the continuation reception section receives the option to continue to execute the provided function, the continuation reception section being configured to initialize setting of the provided function and to clear all the history data relating to the provided function from the storage section when the continuation reception section receives the option not to continue to execute the provided function.