Jarte - Free Word Processor and WordPad Replacement

Contents - Index



Main Tool Panel








Tool Panel Selectors:  The five red oval buttons provide access to the five available tool panels.  The five buttons are "auto-click" buttons meaning they automatically toggle themselves when the mouse cursor is briefly paused over them.  This allows fast, easy access to the tools on the available tool panels.  The auto-click behavior of the buttons can be changed using the
Auto Click Buttons option.  The five buttons provide access to the following five panels:
  • File Tools
  • Spell Check
  • About
  • Font Tools
  • Paragraph Tools

    Show Menu:  Toggle this button to control whether the main menu is displayed.  All actions performed by the main menu's menu items are available elsewhere in Jarte's interface, so the presence of the main menu is not a necessity.

    Show Tool Panel:  Toggle this button to control whether the side tool panel is displayed.  Activating any of the five red tool panel selector buttons causes the side tool panel to reappear if it is hidden.

    Show Status Bar:  Toggle this button to control whether the status bar is displayed.

    Show Labels:  Toggle this button to control whether button labels are displayed.

    Backgrounds:  Allows Jarte's background appearance to be changed using the
    Backgrounds dialog box.

    Insert:  Displays a popup menu which allows any of the following items to be inserted into the current document:

    Picture:  Allows the insertion of graphics of the following types:
  • Bitmap (BMP)
  • Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPG, JPEG)

    Unfortunately, Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) graphics are not supported by Jarte because of GIF patent restrictions imposed by the Unisys Corporation.  Use the Windows Paint program to convert a GIF graphic to BMP or JPG and then insert the converted graphic into Jarte.

    Insert Object:  Inserts OLE compliant objects.  Sounds, videos, and other objects can be inserted.

    Insert Date:  Inserts the date using a choice of long or short date format.

    Insert Page Break:  Insert a page break at any point where you want to guarantee that the text that follows will always begin at the top of a new page when the document is printed.

    Page breaks cause the printer to stop printing a page at the point where the page break is encountered and continue printing where it left off at the top of a new page.  The presence of a page break in a document is signified by the page break symbol ( ) in the
    gutter.  The affect of a page break can be seen by using Print Preview.

    A page break may be removed by positioning the caret on the line showing the page break symbol and then pressing the Delete key.

    Note:  Although page breaks can be temporarily inserted into plain text documents for printing purposes they can not be saved to the document's file.  Page breaks are only saved to file for RTF and DOC documents.

    Insert Special Character:  Allows the insertion of special characters not found on the keyboard.  This menu item is the equivalent to the Special Characters Keyboard button on the Font Tools panel.

    Find Bar:  Displays the
    Find Bar used for text searching and replacing.

    Reference Bar:  Displays the
    Reference Bar used for accessing online references.

    Options:  See
    Main Options and Quick Tools for details.

    Help:  Displays this Help document.

    Cut:  Performs the Windows clipboard
    cut operation on the selected text.  The button is only available if text is selected.

    Copy:  Performs the Windows clipboard
    copy operation on the selected text.  The button is only available if text is selected.

    Paste:  Performs the Windows clipboard
    paste operation.  The button is only available if the Windows clipboard is not empty.  Paste Plain can be used to paste text without font or paragraph formatting.

    Clip List:  Displays the
    Clip List tool which provides access to recent clipboard clips and saved clipboard clips.  Right click on the button to display a popup menu which provides quick access to the same clips shown by the Clip List tool.  

    The icon on the Clip List button indicates the type of content currently contained in the Windows clipboard.  The Windows clipboard is empty if the Clip List button shows no icon.

    Undo:  Undoes the last document editing action.  Multiple editing actions can be undone by continuing to click the button.  The button is only available if the previous editing action can be undone.

    Redo:  Reinstates the editing action undone by the Undo button.  Multiple undo actions can be reversed by continuing to click the button.  The button is only available if the previous editing action was an undo action.

    Exit:  Exits the Jarte program.