Jarte is a powerful, free word processor and Wordpad replacement with a unique interface.

Features include RTF and DOC support, OLE support, tabbed document access, spell check, page breaks, print preview, visual header & footer designer, clip history, online reference bar, multi-level undo & redo, customizable background, bookmarking, and many more. A detailed Help file is included.

General Features

- Opens multiple documents using a tabbed interface
- Opens rich text and plain text documents including DOC documents created with Microsoft Word 95, Word 97, or Word 2000
- Saves documents in rich text format, plain text format or Microsoft Word 95 DOC format
- Optional display of button labels
- Docking tool panels
- Optional system tray access
- Drag and drop file support
- Customizable background pattern and color schemes
- Quick access to recently opened documents
- Quick access to your favorite documents and your favorite document folders
- Detailed Help file

Editing Functions

- Provides the ability to insert page breaks anywhere in your document
- OLE support for inserting pictures, sounds, and other OLE objects
- Quick Clips option provides easy copy, cut and paste capability with the middle mouse button (aka, mouse scroll wheel)
- Standard copy, cut, and paste clipboard functions
- "Paste Plain" function strips HTML and RTF formatting from clipboard text before pasting
- Multi-level undo and redo
- Copy all, select all, and clear functions
- Font Formatting
- Bold, italic, underline, strikeout, subscript, and superscript 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
- 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, and centered text alignment
- Paragraph indentation
- Bulleted, first line indent, and hanging indent paragraph styles
- Single, one and a half, and double line spacing
- Optional paragraph spacing before and after paragraphs
- 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
- Document Navigation
- Displayable Find Bar for text searching and text replacing that does not interfere with document reading and editing
- Single click bookmarking and single click bookmark navigation
- Go directly to a specified page number or line number

Tools

- Clip List allows you display and reuse the 25 most recent clipboard clips
- Screen capture tool for copying any portion of the screen to the clipboard
- Special Characters Keyboard allows single click insertion of any character including the extended characters not shown on your keyboard
- Spell checker with user definable dictionary
- Link to, or import, your existing custom Word dictionaries
- Reference Bar provides instant word lookup to:
Merriam-WebsterВ®'s on-line dictionary
Merriam-WebsterВ®'s on-line thesaurus
BrittanicaВ®'s on-line encyclopedia
- instance access is also provided to:
On-line English grammar reference
On-line quotes reference
- Document word count tool
- Open web link tool
- Search for files on your computer with direct access to the system file search tool