JPH07105186A - Method and device for document calling process - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily confirm the contents of external document information by reading document information out of an external storage device partially without affecting document information that is currently being edited. CONSTITUTION:An internal storage device 4 is provided with an area 42 for external document display development different from an area 41 for document editing, and an external document display position specifying means 54 which accepts the specification of call places in specific display units for document information in the external storage device 6, it provided. A user specifies a desired display position for the document information in the external storage device 6. Then, information at the call place is read in the area 42 for development different from the document editing area 41 and the information in this area 42 for development is displayed on an editing screen.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document file saving / calling method and apparatus for checking the contents of a document such as a document FD without calling it.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When it is desired to confirm the contents of a document in an FD or the like, the document information stored in an external storage device such as the FD is stored in an internal document editing storage device in document units or page units by a function called a document call. When the content can be called and edited, the contents can be confirmed on the edit screen.

However, it can be very troublesome in some cases. When a document is viewed, it must be called to the internal storage device as is apparent from the above, but if a document is currently being created, the document being created must be saved to the external storage device. I have to. At that time, when the external storage device (hereinafter, represented by FD) is full, a blank area in the FD is collected to create a document storable area, that is, a so-called document floppy is arranged, or another FD is arranged. You will have to prepare. FIG. 6 illustrates one such case. Now, it is assumed that the preparation of the document (A) is completed and an attempt is made to save it in the FD (1), but the FD (1) is full (). Ignoring the above-mentioned arrangement of document floppy, another F
This involves preparing D (2) and storing it in it. In other words, even if an unnecessary file in the FD (1) is deleted and an empty area is created and the document (A) is saved, the document to be erased cannot be easily deleted without checking the contents. Therefore, it is necessary to read the document into the internal storage device once. Therefore, another FD (2) for saving the document (A) is required. Therefore, first of all, FD
(2) is initialized (), and then the document (A) is stored in this FD (2) ().

When the document (A) is completely saved in this way, for example, the document (a) may be called from the FD (1) to check its contents () and the document (a) may be deleted. To remove this (). After that, FD (2)
The document (A) is called from () and stored in the FD (1) ().

If the document that can be deleted is the first checked document, the above 7 steps will be sufficient, but since there is much confirmation work until the document that can be deleted is hit, it takes much more work. Become.

[0006]

As described above, the conventional document calling function has a problem that the contents of the calling document cannot be confirmed on the screen unless the contents of the document area being edited are replaced with the calling document. is there.

There is a document synthesizing function for synthesizing the called document with the document being edited, but it cannot be used when there is no room in the edited document area, and the synthesized document is deleted from the edited document area. It also involves the operation of doing.

It is also possible to use the multi-window function, but since it is called in document units and leads to unnecessarily long sentences being read, there is a problem that it takes a long time accordingly.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems of the prior art, and its purpose is to partially read the document information in the external storage device without affecting the document information being edited. It is an object to provide a document call processing method and an apparatus for issuing the same.

[0010]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A document call processing method according to the present invention comprises a step of designating a call location for a predetermined display unit for designated document information in an external storage device, and a step of designating the call location in the document information. Reading the information into a development area provided separately from the edited document storage area,
And displaying the information of the calling location in the editing screen according to the information in the development area.

Further, the document call processing apparatus of the present invention includes a call location designation means for designating a call location for a predetermined display unit for designated document information in an external storage device, and information of the call location in the document information. External document information read-out means for reading into the expansion area provided separately from the edit document area, and display control means for displaying the information of the called part in the edit screen according to the information in the expansion area. And

The calling point designating means can be realized by including page line digit calling means for designating the calling point by designating the page line digit of the designated document information.

Further, the calling point designating means can be realized also by scroll calling means for designating a calling point by scrolling from the current display information of the designated document information to the information of the next display unit or the information of the previous display unit. You can

Further, the calling location designating means may be provided with a word search calling means for designating a calling location by a search function for a designated word of the designated document information.

The display control means preferably comprises ruled line information expanding means for expanding the ruled line information surrounding the display character or character string information in the expanded area.

The document call processing device of the present invention is
It is desirable to provide an external document copying means for copying the display character or character string information in the development area into the edited document area.

[0017]

According to the present invention, the call target location is designated for the document information in the external storage device, and the information of the call target location is taken into a development area different from the document information area being edited, and this is displayed on the screen. Since the information is displayed, the document information in the external storage device can be partially read without affecting the document information being edited. As a result, the contents of the called document can be confirmed on the screen without replacing the contents of the document area being edited with the called document.
Further, since the document being edited is not affected at all, the operation such as the deletion operation of the called document when using the document composition function is unnecessary. Furthermore, since only the necessary parts can be called, it is possible to efficiently check the contents of the external document. Since the called document information can also be copied, it is possible to hold only the necessary parts of the external document and delete the external document from the file, and it is easy to organize the external storage device.

[0018]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 (I) shows the configuration of a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In this figure,
The CPU 1 includes a keyboard 2, a display device 3, an internal storage device 4 including a RAM, an internal storage device 5 including a ROM,
An external storage device 6 is connected, and the CPU 1 processes documents in the internal storage device 4 according to a program in the internal storage device 5. A document editing area 4 in the internal storage device 4
1 and an external document display development area 42 are secured. The program is stored in the internal storage device 5 by the editing means 51, the saving / calling means 52, and the external document display means 5.
3, external document display position specifying means 54, and external document content copying means 55 are included. The editing unit 51 creates a document in the document editing area 41 by characters input by the input unit such as the keyboard 2. The save / call means 52 has a function (save function) of transferring the content of the document editing area 41 to the external storage device 6 in document units or page units, and external document display development of the content of the external storage device 6 in document units or page units. It is moved to the use area 42 (call function). The external document display means 53 copies the contents of the document stored in the external storage device 6 into the external document display expansion area 42 and displays them in display units without affecting the document information in the document editing area 41. The external document display position specifying means 54 arbitrarily specifies the position of the document information in the external storage means 6. The external document content copying means 55 copies an arbitrary portion of the document information displayed by the external document display means 53 into the document stored in the document editing area 41.

FIG. 1 (II) shows the processing contents of the external document display means 53 and the external document content copying means 55.
~ S8 constitutes the external document display control means 53, S9 ~ S
12 constitutes the external document content copying means 55. In S1, the document directory is read from the external storage device 6. As a result, a document name list is displayed as shown in FIG. Subsequently, in S2, designation of one document from the document name list is accepted. Then, in S3, only one screen of data from the beginning of the designated document is read into the external document display development area 42. Then, in S4, the figure, ruled line, and the like are expanded in the external document display expansion area 42 to form a window, and in S5, the contents are displayed on the screen of the display device 3. Then, for example, a screen as shown in FIG. 3 is formed, and thereafter, in S6, the instruction waiting state is set. At this time, the user specifies the end, the display position, and the copy.

If any of the above-mentioned end designation, display position designation, and copy designation is input, the process proceeds to S7, and this S7 is performed.
The specified contents are checked in. As a result, if the end is designated, the routine is ended there. S
As a result of the check in step 7, if the display position is designated, S
8, the screen as shown in FIG. 4 is formed particularly when the display position is designated in S8, and the page line digit is input to the predetermined position. One screen of document information starting from the designated position in the document is read into the external document display development area 42, and the process returns to S4. If the check result in S7 is copy designation, the process proceeds to S9,
First, a screen as shown in FIG. 5 is formed, where the user designates a range in the text in the window. Then S1
At 0, the character string at the designated position is stored in a predetermined buffer in the internal storage device 4. Then, the process proceeds to S11, in which the copy destination is specified in the document being edited. When the designation is made, the process proceeds to S12, and the data buffered in S10 is inserted into the designated copy destination in the document editing area 41.

As described above, the call target location is designated for the document information in the external storage device 6, and the information of the call target location is fetched into the expansion area 42 different from the document editing area 41 being edited. Is displayed on the screen, the document information in the external storage device 6 can be read out without affecting the document information being edited. As a result, the contents of the calling document information can be confirmed on the screen without replacing the contents of the document editing area 41 with the calling document information. Further, since the document information being edited is not affected at all, an operation such as deletion of the called document information when using the document synthesizing function becomes unnecessary. Furthermore, since only the necessary part can be called, the work of efficiently confirming the content of the external document information can be performed. And
Since the recalled document information can also be copied, it is possible to retain only the required portion of the external document information and delete the external document information from the file, and it is easy to organize the external storage device 6. In other words, it becomes unnecessary to leave only the entire document information including the sentence because only a part of the sentence is necessary.

The embodiment of the present invention has been described above.
The present invention is not limited to this.

For example, it can be applied to external character data and other databases (spreadsheets, personal databases, etc.).

The display unit is not limited to several lines as described above, but may be page units or character units. In particular, it may be one character or the like. In such a case, the external document display expansion area may not be provided and the text may be directly output to the display device. In addition, figures, ruled lines, etc. may be omitted.

[0025]

As described above, according to the present invention, the call target location is designated for the document information in the external storage device,
Since the information of the call target location is taken into a development area different from the document information area being edited and is displayed on the screen, the document information in the external storage device affects the document information being edited. Can be partially read out. As a result, the contents of the called document can be confirmed on the screen without replacing the contents of the document area being edited with the called document. Further, since the document being edited is not affected at all, the operation such as the deletion operation of the called document when using the document composition function is unnecessary. Furthermore, since only the necessary parts can be called, it is possible to efficiently check the contents of the external document. Since the called document information can also be copied, it is possible to hold only the necessary parts of the external document and delete the external document from the file, and it is easy to organize the external storage device.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram (I) showing a schematic configuration of a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention and a flow chart (II) showing detailed processing contents of main parts thereof.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a screen example when a document calling operation is performed using the device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a screen example when a document calling operation is performed using the device shown in FIG. 1.

4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a screen when a document calling operation is performed using the device shown in FIG.

5 is an explanatory diagram showing a screen example when a document calling operation is performed using the device shown in FIG. 1. FIG.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a defect of a conventional document calling operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 CPU 2 Keyboard 3 Display Device 4 Internal Storage Device (Work Area RAM) 41 Document Editing Area 42 External Document Display Development Area 5 Internal Storage Device (Program ROM) 51 Editing Means 52 Saving / Calling Means 53 External Document Display Control Means 54 external document display position designating means 55 external document content copying means 6 external storage device

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A step of designating a calling location for a predetermined display unit for designated document information in an external storage device, and expansion of the information of the calling location in the document information provided separately from a document editing area. And a step of displaying the information of the calling location in an editing screen according to the information in the development area. 2. A calling location designation means for designating a calling location for a predetermined display unit for designated document information in an external storage device, and information of the calling location in the document information is provided separately from a document editing area. A document call processing device comprising: external document information reading means for reading into the expanded area, and display control means for displaying the information of the called place in an edit screen according to the information in the expanded area. . 3. The document call processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the call location designating means comprises page line digit calling means for designating a call location by designating a page line digit of designated document information. 4. The calling point designating means comprises scroll calling means for designating a calling point by scrolling from the current display information of the designated document information to the information of the next display unit or the information of the previous display unit. 4. The document call processing device according to claim 2, wherein: 5. The calling location designation means comprises a phrase search calling means for designating a calling location by a term included in the designated document information. Document call processing device. 6. The display control means comprises ruled line information expanding means for expanding ruled line information surrounding display character or character string information in the expansion area.
5. The document call processing device according to claim 1. 7. The external document copying means for copying the display character or character string information in the expansion area into the document editing area, according to any one of claims 2 to 6. Document call processing device.