Abstract: A character string selecting apparatus is provided with a menu display unit for setting a plurality of menu display areas, displaying, in a first column of the menu display area, selection target character strings extracted at intervals from selection target character strings provided with a display order, and displaying, in an i-th column, selection target character strings extracted at intervals smaller than intervals of extraction in an i-1-th column; a slide operation processing unit for scrolling display of selection target character strings of a j-th column in response to slide operation in the j-th column and display of the selection target character strings of the other columns in conjunction with each other based on amounts of scrolling according to the intervals of extraction; and a character string selection unit for specifying a selection target character string selected in one of the columns as an input character string.