Abstract: A process of controlling the course of a program in form processing by data processing systems for data contents of a form (80, 81, 82) built of fields to be processed. The pictorial illustration (display of the form (80, 81, 82), the reading and fading in of the data relevant for this form, the manipulation of these data by the user and the processing of these data arranged by the user by a firmly assigned form processing program to the form after selection of a form specification. The form processing program is composed here, under predetermination of the actual form specification, according to the available fields, gradually of individual programs which are typical for the field.