PURPOSE: To arrange a form as a letter and to transmit it to an opposite party only by means of setting an original consisting only of a content to be transmitted by generating a fixed format obtained by arranging the form of the letter through the use of transmitting destination information of a transmitting source, a transmitting destination and a date and call-side information on a transmission-side.
CONSTITUTION: The fixed format including the name of the transmitting destination, the name of a caller, the FAX numbers of the transmitting destination and the caller and the date are arranged in the form of the business letter. Information is accumulated in a memory in the form obtained by adding the facsimile original to be transmitted to the fixed format arranged in the form of the letter. A communication protocol with the transmitting destination is set, and the original including the fixed format accumulated in the memory is transmitted to the facsimile equipment of the transmitting destination. Thus, a trouble for writing the name of the opposite party, which is previously registered by one operation/abbreviated dials, into the facsimile original can be saved. Then, the form as the letter can be arranged so as to transmit information only by setting the original of only the content to be transmitted.