The invention discloses a document composition display method and device. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a template retrieval instruction, and retrieving a target template corresponding to the template retrieval instruction from a pre-maintained template base; receiving a bookmark configuration instruction and a table configuration instruction, performing bookmark setting on the target template according to the bookmark configuration instruction, and performing table setting on the target template according to the table configuration instruction, wherein the bookmark configuration instruction carries bookmark data source information, and the table configuration instruction carries table data source information; and storing the configured target template according to a predetermined document format. Thus it can be seen that the document composition display method provided by the embodiment of the invention can flexibly formulate a word template according to the business requirement, formulate bookmark and data sources, quickly realize the requirements of users on formatted and templated functions of word documents, so as to quickly and flexibly realize document styles required by the business requirement.