PURPOSE: To provide a business form output device can improve the reduction of labor and the maintenance properties for development of a data collecting/ business form output program and also can optionally set the form and the data of the business form by using a spread sheet consisting of the rows and columns.

CONSTITUTION: A business form production means 71 has a business form editing function which displays a spread sheet consisting of plural cells including the rows and columns on a display device 3 and inputs and edits the business form elements like the title, the output form, the ruled lines, etc., the data names which collect the tags or symbols for each row, the data types, the data collecting time each row, and the comments through a key input device 2. Thus, the means 71 produces a sheet file 8, an address file 9, a data collecting time file 10, and a process data file 11 based on the contents of the spread sheet inputted by the business form editing function. furthermore, the means 71 has a business form register/dele tion processing function to register the business form control information into a business form control file 12 and also deletes the business form control information with an instruction of a user.