DOCUMENT PREPARATION PROCESSOR AND RECORDING MEDIUM WHERE DOCUMENT PREPARATION PROCESSING PROGRAM IS RECORDED

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable operation by an easy procedure and to display, edit, and print a document in an intended style by filing and storing external character data taken out of a device by referring to an obtained external character code. SOLUTION: External character data generated by an external character generating means 10 are stored in an in-device external character storage area 12 by an external character registering means 11 and a document generated by a document preparing means 13 is stored as document data 15 in an auxiliary storage device by a document registering means 14. An external character code acquiring means 16 obtains an external character code used in the document data 15 and an external character data extracting means 17 extracts the file 18 of the external character data used in the document data 15 from the in-device character storage area 12 according to the obtained external character code and stores the file in the auxiliary storage device. The generated document data 15 and external character data 18 are sent to another document preparation processor by a file transmitting means 19 through a communication network or by using external storage medium recorded by using an external storage device.