An image forming apparatus which executes jobs to form images, including: a job memory section which stores job information indicating setting contents of the jobs; a display section having a first region and a second region that never overlap; and a control section which controls contents to be displayed, wherein the control section controls to display a job list in the first region based on the job information, and also display a setting content of a job selected from the job list in the second region, while a function of an operation button is given to the setting content, wherein when the operation button is selected, by utilizing the setting content corresponding to the selected operation button as a search key, a job is extracted from the job list and displayed such that the extracted job and the other job can be distinguished.