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.

Changelog:

• There was a memory leak that sometimes caused Jarte to crash.
• The spell checker was identifying table control characters as misspellings.
• The spell checker did not handle contractions correctly for words in the French and Italian spelling dictionaries.
• The spell checker wrongly treated accented capital letters to be correctly spelled when using the French spelling dictionary in French Canada.
• The spell checker wrongly treated concatenated words as misspellings when using the German spelling dictionary.
• Page breaks and page numbering in the editing pane were too light to be easily seen on brighter monitors. Page breaks and page numbering are now more visible, and their color can be adjusted via new advanced setting Page Break Shade.
• If the Jarte icon was set to appear in the taskbar tray, and the user clicked the icon to access the menu, the menu would not always disappear properly if the user decided not to select a menu item.
• Turning on Jarte Plus' Auto Correct feature required the "correct.tlx" spelling dictionary to be manually enabled if it was not already enabled. This was a source of confusion so the correct.tlx dictionary is now automatically enabled and disabled in conjuction with the setting of the Auto Correct feature.
• Jarte's Alt key tags were being displayed in circumstances where they should not have been. That has been corrected, and a new Alt Key Tag Delay advanced setting has been introduced to provide more control over the display of the tags.
• When using multiple monitors with the primary monitor on the right Jarte could not be made to initially appear on the left monitor rather than the right monitor.
• The Suppress header and Suppress footer controls on the Print window were not working properly.
• If a Windows software restriction policy is applied that prevents the execution of code from the Windows application data folders then this caused a problem for Jarte in some cuircumstances since Jarte caches DOC converter files under the application data folder. Converter caching can now be disabled via advanced setting Enable Converter Caching.
• When closing a file Jarte prompted for whether the user wanted to save changes even when the Auto Save feature was enabled. Jarte now automatically saves any modifications to a file when the file is closed if Auto Save is enabled.
• The Insert Hyperlink feature did not properly handle SSL URLs.
• File hyperlinks were not portable. File hyperlinks are now portable in the following scenario: Jarte is running from a USB drive and is being used to modify a file which resides on the same USB drive. A file hyperlink is inserted which points to a second file which also resides on the USB drive. The hyperlink will now continue to work even if the drive letter of the USB drive Jarte and the two files reside on is different in a later editing session.
• If the Format Brush was used on text containing a hyperlink then the hyperlink was lost as a result.
• An error occurred when the Alt+L shortcut was used to display Jarte's Clip List.
• Jarte Plus' Auto Outline feature did not properly renumber an outline if a soft carriage return (i.e., Shift+Enter) was inserted.
• The spell checker was only providing one suggested spelling for a misspelled word when Jarte was running in screen reader mode on Windows Vista.
• When a new RTF file was created via Windows Explorer, or by right clicking on the Windows desktop, the proper default page margins were not applied if the file was subsequently opened in Jarte.
• Many other less notable bugs were also fixed.

Program Information Category: Tools and Utilities Type: Free Version: 3.4 Size: 2.84MB Works on: Windows Product page: here