Patent ID: 7418667

Claim:
A character input apparatus comprising: storage means for storing a plurality of design forms in each of which a sample text formed of one or more character strings has been input in advance; selection means for selecting one design form from the plurality of design forms stored in said storage means; edit means for editing the sample text of the one design form selected by said selection means; and display means for displaying the sample text of the one design form selected by said selection means or the edited sample text on a screen, and at the same time also displaying a cursor in a manner added to a character to be edited; wherein said display means displays the cursor in a manner added to a last character in an initial state displaying the sample text, in which a display pattern on the screen is changed according to the number of characters of the character string forming a last line of the sample text so as to display the last character of the character string of the last line on the screen, before editing by said edit means; and wherein said edit means is capable of editing the sample text only by using a backspace function for deleting a character immediately before a character under which the cursor is placed without using a deletion function for deleting a character positioned immediately after the character to which the cursor is added.