When word processors replaced typewriters they helped free the creative expressions innate in all of us. But somewhere along the way word processors evolved into enormous machines designed primarily to serve the needs of the corporate world. Office word processors have become huge, cumbersome vessels of software that remind us of ocean liners. The seeming goal of both is to become as large as possible by including every imaginable feature, whether anyone actually needs all those features or not. That's fine for an ocean liner since you are there to relax and marvel at its grandness. However, it is not so fine when the size and complexity of your word processor makes it as cumbersome to operate as an ocean liner in a yacht race.

It does not have to be like that. Jarte is a WordPad based, FREE word processor whose unique interface will make you feel like you are piloting a swift, nimble yacht by comparison. Although Jarte doesn't look anything like the office word processor you are used to, it can handle your word processing tasks with aplomb. If this sounds like the kind of word processor you are looking for then maybe you owe it to yourself to give Jarte a try.

General Features

Fully compatible with Windows XP, Vista and 7

Tabbed interface to provide easy access to open documents

Opens files with file extension RTF, file extension DOC, and file extension DOCX

Fast start up

Small size, efficient operation, and compact display (perfect word processor for netbooks)

Hot Connect lets you use Jarte with other programs

Optional "Clickless Operation" feature greatly reduces clicking

Can be run as a portable word processor directly from a USB flash drive, CD, or DropBox folder

High quality spell checker with custom user dictionary

Included spelling dictionaries: English (American, British, & Canadian), Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Dutch

Link to, or import, your existing custom Word spelling dictionaries

Support for templates

Export to HTML or PDF

Single click bookmarking and bookmark navigation

Send documents via e-mail

Full drag and drop file support

Instant access to recently opened documents and folders

Instant access to documents and folders designated as favorites

Adjustable document zoom

Detailed Help documentation

Editing Functions

Insert pictures, hyperlinks, tables, page breaks, equations and other embeddable objects

Quick Clips option provides easy copy, cut and paste capability using the mouse scroll wheel button

Standard clipboard functions plus a Paste Plain function which strips HTML and RTF formatting from clipboard text before pasting

Multi-level undo and redo functions
Sorting

Font Formatting

Bold, italic, underline, strikeout, subscript, and superscript font styles

Choice of text colors

Text highlight tool with choice of colors

Font typeface selection box which displays each font choice in its own typeface

Choose your own default font

Quick access to your personally chosen favorite fonts and to recently used fonts

Format brush tool quickly applies font styling to text

Paragraph Formatting

Left, right, centered, and justified text alignment

Paragraph indentation including first line and hanging indent styles

Bulleted and numbered list styles

Single, one and a half, and double line spacing

Optional paragraph spacing before and after paragraphs

Support for left, right, center, and decimal aligned tab stops

Format brush tool quickly applies formatting to paragraphs

Printing

Print preview

User definable page margins

Reverse page order option and odd or even pages only options (useful for double sided printing) in addition to the standard print options

Visual designer allows complete control of both headers and footers:

• Define any combination of left side, right side, and center headers and footers
  
• Headers and footers may contain any combination of page numbering, file date, current date (in choice of date formats), file name, and user definable text
  
• User control of the font typeface, font size, font style, and font color used for headers and footers
  
• User control of the positioning of the header and footer lines
  
• Optional suppression of the header and/or footer on the first page
  

Tools

Clip List allows you display and reuse the 25 most recent clipboard clips

Screen capture tool for copying images from the screen

Special Characters Keyboard allows single click insertion of any character including the extended characters not shown on your keyboard

Reference Bar provides instant word lookup to online dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia

The Reference Bar also automatically integrates with the WordWeb dictionary and thesaurus if it is installed

Document word count tool

Search for files on your computer with direct access to the system file search tool