Jarte is a word processing tool that you can use for document editing. As it is based on the word processing tool included by Microsoft Wordpad, the application offers a group of functions that allows you to create complex written documents.
The main screen of the application displays a toolbar, which conveniently includes all of the program's main functions. Thus, the interface, for which different skins are available, is user-friendly, allowing for quick access to all the features of the application.
In addition to the common editing functions, this piece of software includes a document backup feature, which proves to be very useful in preserving your documents as you write them. If you turn on this option from the main menu, it allows you to restore documents that you might have accidentally deleted or lost. In addition to this, you may use Jarte to open Word documents, and you may also use Word to open Jarte documents. Thus, you do not need to convert the documents that you process with Jarte into other file types, in order to access them with different applications. Moreover, Jarte also supports integration with WordWeb, which is a free application that includes a dictionary and a thesaurus.
To conclude with, although Jarte does not support certain features, such as footnotes and multiple columns on the same page, it constitutes a moderately efficient tool for creating text documents in a simple and rapid manner.
Quick access to main functions
The possibility to open Word documents with it and vice versa
Backup file option
Fast starting
It does not support footnotes and multiple columns
Reviewed by: Florin Florinescu
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Reviewed: 2 months ago
What's new in version 4.4
Enhancements: The default initial folder used for Open/Save can now be set by going to File > File Options > Set Default Folder. The default initial folder could already be specified by existing advanced option Default Initial Folder, but the new file option makes the ability to change the setting more obvious and convenient. For Jarte Plus users, custom shortcut keys (or custom Quick Bar buttons) can now be assigned to new commands Select About Panel, Select File Panel, Select Font Panel, Select Paragraph Panel, and Select Spell Panel. This allows custom shortcut keys to be used to switch between the side tool panels. Note that command Hide Tool Panel already exists (toggles between showing and hiding tool panel). Closing a document no longer causes Jarte Plus to exit split view mode at the same time. Exiting split view mode is still accomplished by selecting Split View Off. When the text based status bar is displayed, the word count field is now the first field rather than the last field, assuming word counting in the status bar is enabled. Pressing the Escape key while keyboard focus is in the Find Bar or Reference Bar now closes the Find Bar or Reference Bar. New advanced setting Default to Plain Text can be used to direct the New command to create a plain text document, rather than a rich text document. Jarte now recognizes when it is running under the PortableApps.com platform and conforms accordingly. Bug Fixes: Clicking one of two buttons on the line guide while in split view mode did not cause the document with the line guide to become the active document if it was not already active. If the Swap Views command was invoked while split view mode was being used and the line guide feature was being used, the line guide did not swap with its associated editing pane. Jarte could not save changes made to a file marked as "Hidden" in Windows Explorer. The Starting page number field in the Print dialog did not allow negative numbers to typed in (i.e., the up/down was needed to enter negative numbers). If Jarte was configured to minimize to the system tray on the taskbar, and was minimized, then Jarte did not come to the top of other windows if the user double clicked a document in Windows Explorer. Text could not be dragged-and-dropped into Jarte from another program. A couple of bugs with Jarte's tabs bar were fixed. The bugs only occurred in certain scenarios when there were enough tabs present to cause the special navigation tab to appear. If default left and right page margins are different than the factory default then text wrapping in the editing pane was based on the factory default page margins until the Print dialog was used. The default page header did not get printed for a document if Quick Print was used before the Print dialog was displayed. Spell check was not always ignoring HTML tags during the first spell check when option Ignore HTML Tags was enabled. The Insert/Overwrite indicator in the status bar was not updated if the Insert key on the keyboard's number pad was used to toggle the insert/overwrite state, rather than the normal Insert key. The Open and Save dialogs could appear off screen if Jarte was run from a flash drive on a computer with a high resolution screen and then Jarte was subsequently run from the flash drive when the drive was plugged into a computer with a lower resolution screen. There was a scenario in which Jarte would bypass the "Do you want to save?" prompt when closing a new document and would present the Save dialog. The scenario only happened when AutoSave was enabled but when it occurred it was difficult to close the tab, and difficult to exit Jarte while the tab was present. The first command in the Customize Shortcut Keys dialog was not in alphabetical order. The Reopen Last Session feature did not reopen a file that was first created while closing Jarte's previous session. The page header/footer Default button was disabled whenever the Print header and footer check box was unchecked, which made it inconvenient to set a default of no header/footer after one had been defined. A search for text that included a curly quote would not succeed if the curly quote had been pasted into the Find Bar. The commands for changing the style of numbered lists were missing from the Customize Shortcut Keys dialog. If the Screen Capture feature was selected after pressing the Clip List global hot key then Jarte would come to the foreground when the screen capture was complete. That was undesirable if Jarte was not the active program at the time the global hot key was used. The Ctrl+W shortcut key did not close the active document (Ctrl+W is an alternate of the Ctrl+F4 shortcut).
