Abstract: A remote control apparatus for recording/playback equipment capable of remotely controlling complicated recording playback equipment while placing little burden on the control side. Schedule data is transmitted from an uplink system 100 to a downlink system 200 via a communications satellite. The schedule data includes operation data for recording and playback operations and their related operations, start data which displays at least the operation start time, and position data which indicates the recording/playback position on the recording medium. The received schedule data is stored in a non-volatile RAM in the control area of the VCR 203. The VCR then uses this schedule data as a basis for automatically carrying out recording or playback operations and their related operations.

Abstract: An automatic numbering apparatus for use with a text processing system has first storage element for storing a starting position specified on a display screen of a display and the kind or type of a corresponding outline number, an outline number generator for sequentially generating, when the starting position of the specified item is specified on the display screen and a predetermined key is operated, outline numbers corresponding to the starting positions of the specified items, second storage element for storing the outline number generated by the outline number generator, the starting position thereof, and a corresponding page and text inputted by a data input device (keyboard), and an outline searching device for searching for the outline number, the corresponding position and the corresponding page of the stored contents in the second storage means, whereby the text containing the items can be printed out and a table of contents comprising a list of the items and the corresponding pages as searched by t