It can be scary when software 'upgrades' - I can visualize all the nods from those having to use Office 2007 for the first time!

But why would anyone switch to a new word processor?

"I have been using Microsoft's Word so long, it is 'embedded' and used without much thought."

So what has Jarte (jär · 'tay) to offer...

• Many learners buy PCs, Laptops etc that has little in the way of software and Jarte is a free word processor that runs on the stable Windows WordPad engine;
• Some learners don't have their own PC', Laptops, and Jarte can be carried with them on a memory stick, to use on any computer they can use; (Yes I know some learning providers block the use of USB ports and/or exe files)
• Jarte provides a clean, minimalist interface and getting the stuff most learners don’t need out of the way; that is, unless they are doing an ICT qualification. Note: Jarte is not a bare-bones program, though.
• Jarte still has all the features learners actually need, like spell checking and text formatting — they’re just easier to find. That means learners won’t have to scrounge through a dozen menus of tables, headers, footers, and yes, mail merges and macros, when they only want to change a font.
• Jarte also has some 'juicy extras'

On my work laptop (Windows XP; Office 2007), the one piece of software that takes forever to load, hogs big chunks of the computing memory by providing me with features I don’t use that often, is Microsoft Word. For me, Jarte is portable, quick to load, has tabbed documents, allows export to pdf and html and, an even bigger plus, it has a snippy-like screen capture tool built in! WOW!

Find out more and/or try it out at http://www.jarte.com/.