Jarte Options

Main menu:	Tools > Options
Compact layout:	Options
Classic layout:	Options

Jarte's Clickless Operation is designed to make writing more pleasant and efficient by reducing the number of mouse clicks needed to accomplish many word processing tasks. Note that Clickless Operation does not apply to the main menu.

Clickless Menu Buttons - Controls whether the various Jarte buttons that display menus can be activated by pausing the mouse over them.

Clickless Menu Items - Controls whether a menu's menu items can be selected by pausing the mouse over the desired choice.

Clickless Tabs - Controls whether you can switch document tabs by pausing the mouse over the desired tab.

Clickless Tab Close Button - Controls whether the Close button on the current document's tab can be activated by pausing the mouse over it.

Clickless Save Button - Controls whether the Save button on the File Tools panel and the Save button on the status bar can be activated by pausing the mouse over them.

Click Timing - Controls the length of time the mouse must pause over a button before the button automatically activates. Fast indicates a very short pause, Normal and Slow indicate longer pauses.

When this option is turned on Jarte's icon appears in the system tray of the Windows task bar in order to provide easy access to the program.

Determines whether a small hint window describing a button appears when the mouse pauses over the button. Note that no hint window is shown for buttons that display menus when the Clickless Menu Buttons option is turned on.

When this option is turned on the clipboard Paste operation can be performed simply by clicking the mouse's middle button. The middle mouse button is the clickable scroll wheel available on most mice. Other clipboard operations can also be performed with the middle mouse button as described in Using the Windows Clipboard.

Middle Mouse button Paste should work with most mice, but it is not guaranteed to work with all mice. If it does not work for your mouse try examining the mouse's settings by going to Start > Control Panel > Mouse. Ensure the middle mouse button (scroll wheel button) is set to its "default" action.

Determines whether the mouse selects whole words at a time, rather than just one character at a time, when selecting (i.e., highlighting) text with the mouse.

Determines whether a file name's file format extension is shown as part of the file name wherever file names are displayed throughout Jarte. For example, My To Do List versus My To Do List.doc.

This feature is only available in Jarte Plus. Smart quotes are the directional curly quotes supported by most fonts and preferred by many writers. For example, the following line uses curly quotes:

Note that some fonts have more distinctive curly quotes than others. The examples shown above use the Times New Roman font which has distinctive curly quotes. The same keyboard quote key is used for both curly quotes and straight quotes. The setting of the Smart Quotes option determines which type of quotes the quote key produces.

This feature automatically converts any web addresses in a document into clickable hyperlinks. Detected web addresses are made blue and underlined. Click the web address while pressing the Ctrl key to open the address in a web browser, or press the Enter key while the insertion point is positioned in the hyperlink.

Any currently open documents need to be closed and reopened after changing this option before the change will have full affect in those documents.

This option allows a choice of document background colors. The chosen background color is only used for display purposes, not for printing. Note that if a light font color is used against a dark background then printouts will be difficult to read when the light font color is printed on white paper.

This option determines the point at which a document's lines are wrapped when displayed on the screen. The following choices are available:

Wrap to Window - Lines are wrapped when they reach the right edge of the editing pane. Indicated by

in the status bar.

Wrap to Page - Lines are wrapped exactly as they will appear when printed. Indicated by

in the status bar. This choice is only enabled if a local or network printer is available. If no printer is available then installing a PDF utility program such as PrimoPDF will serve the same purpose.

Gray dashed lines appear across the width of the document at the points where one page ends and the next begins. A page number is displayed immediately above each dashed line at the right side. If the page numbers are not visible then widen the Jarte program window until the page numbers come into view.

The length of the lines, and the point at which they wrap, is determined by the paper size and page margin settings (see Printing and Page Setup).

No Wrap - Lines are not wrapped. The horizontal scrollbar must be used to view the end of lines which continue past the right edge of the editing pane. Indicated by

in the status bar.

You may choose separate default word wrap choices for both rich text and plain text documents. The word wrap setting can also be selected by clicking the word wrap indicator in the status bar.

This feature is only available with Jarte Plus. It allows the creation of new Jarte personalities, each of which maintains its own settings (e.g., favorite files list, custom spelling dictionaries, appearance, etc). You are prompted for a name when creating a new Jarte personality, and a shortcut to that personality is placed on the Windows Desktop.

Jarte personalities can be used for special writing projects, keeping home and work related writing environments separate (especially useful when Jarte is run from a USB flash drive used at both home and work), providing separate Jarte environments for family members who share the same Windows login account, etc.

This option allows a choice of background patterns for the program interface. The option is mainly for Jarte Plus users, however, users of the Jarte free edition can choose between the Brushed Metal default background and a background of None (i.e., a solid color background).

The available background patterns are designed to automatically conform to your current Windows color scheme. Jarte Plus users can also provide their own images for use as a background image. The easiest way to do this to use the mouse to drag-n-drop an image file on to any of Jarte's control panels (i.e., do not drop the background image on a document since that will cause the image to be inserted into the document instead of being used as a background). Jarte will make its own copy of the image file when dropped on a Jarte control panel.

This handy feature allows you to quickly install Jarte to a portable USB flash drive so you carry Jarte and your documents with you. You can then use Jarte by plugging the flash drive into any PC. Jarte is USB flash drive friendly. When Jarte is run from a portable flash drive it makes no changes to, and stores no information on, the host PC.

Install to USB Drive gives you the choice of performing a fresh install to the flash drive or copying your existing Jarte settings to the new flash drive installation.

Note that this feature does not work for U3 USB flash drives. Programs installed to a U3 drive must be installed using a special U3 installation file. A Jarte U3 installation file can be downloaded from the Jarte download page. U3 USB flash drives are distinguished from non-U3 drives by a "U3" logo stamped on the drive. Most USB flash drives are not U3 drives.