DOCUMENT PREPARATION SUPPORT DEVICE AND DOCUMENT PREPARATION SUPPORT PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a document preparation support device facilitating preparation of a second document by allowing preparation of a sample document for the second document preparation by easy operation when preparing the second document based on a first document. SOLUTION: The document preparation support device has: a character string designation means 402 for making a user designate a character string desired to be quoted from the first document as a constituent element candidate of the second document; a constituent element candidate storage means 404 for making the character string designated by the character string designation means and attribute information related to the character string be stored in a summary element candidate storage part 114; and a sample document preparation means 405 for preparing the sample document of the second document based on each character string and the attribute information stored in the summary element candidate storage part 114. The sample document preparation means 405 arranges each character string stored in the constituent element candidate storage part based on the attribute information to prepare the sample document. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT