To provide a method and an apparatus for easily transmitting much information in smaller space while reducing trouble and labor of field figure layout with a form editor.

The form editing apparatus includes a correlation calculation section 507 that calculates the correlation between fields, an arranging section 505 that arranges the fields in a form so as to acquire a gap of each line in which the fields are arranged, and a gap adjusting section 508 that selects a plurality of candidate fields having lengths smaller than the gap so as to move one field among the selected plurality of candidate fields to the gap based on the correlation.