To provide a system and a method for effectively utilizing electronic rule book and a recording medium storing electronic rule book with which improvement in effective utilization efficiency and retrieval efficiency is attained in the case of using an electronic rule book.

A system 11 for effectively utilizing electronic rule book is applied to a host 32 or terminal equipment 33 connected to a network 31, for example, and concerning the electronic rule book stored in an electronic rule book DB 12, contents corresponding to the execution of a window job are displayed through a control means 21 onto a display means 23 by operating an operating means 22 of a processor 13 at least. After the retrieval and display of the desired job contents, format contents corresponding to a prescribed procedure to be used for the window job at least are printed by a printing means 14.