Display apparatus

A display apparatus comprising:

• a display device;
• a touch panel that detects a contact on the display device and a contact position, the touch panel being located on a front face of the display device;
• an operation receiver that receives an instruction according to a touch operation performed on the display device and detected by the touch panel;
• a document data memory in which document data is stored;
• a display controller that causes the display device to display the document data stored in the document data memory, when the operation receiver receives an instruction to display the document data;
• a searcher that searches, when the operation receiver receives an input of a character to search, the document data displayed on the display device for a target character that accords with the character to search;
• and
• a marker display controller that displays a marker on a position corresponding to the target character detected by the searcher,
• wherein the display controller (i) causes the display device, when the operation receiver receives an instruction based on a slide operation, performed on the marker displayed on the display device and detected by the touch panel, to display a next marker located on an opposite side, in a direction of the slide operation, and (ii) causes the display device, when the operation receiver receives an instruction based on a slide operation, performed on a position other than the marker displayed on the display device and detected by the touch panel, to scroll a screen on the display device in the direction of the slide operation.