Electronic equipment

A plurality of menus formed in a hierarchical structure is displayed on a liquid-crystal display portion. The menus displayed on the liquid-crystal display portion are selected by direction buttons. The execution of the menu being displayed on the liquid-crystal display portion can be selected by an execution instructing button, and can be set in a direct execution menu by a setting button. The direct execution menu is assigned to a direct-execution instructing button. The execution can be selected directly by pressing the relevant direct-execution instructing button, i.e., without effecting the operation of searching the target menu by displaying lower-level menus consecutively starting with the highest-level menu. The electronic device is capable of directly executing a menu at an arbitrary level from among a plurality of menus formed in a hierarchical structure.