SoftMaker Office Professional Release Notes

What's new in SoftMaker Office 2021:

• Optimized for the new Macs: Fully supports macOS 11 Big Sur and macOS 12 Monterey with native applications for Intel and Apple M1 CPUs.
• You can use one license of SoftMaker Office 2021 on any combination of up to five computers running Windows, macOS or Linux.
• With SoftMaker Office NX Home and Universal, five additional licenses of SoftMaker Office for Android, iPhone and iPad are included.
• Powerful new research function: Select any term in your document and look it up in a large variety of online dictionaries and encyclopedias.
• Export your documents to PDF/A for long-term preservation.
• The enhanced version control allows you to "travel back in time": You can not only go back to manually saved states of your document, but also revisit an arbitrary number of automatic backups.
• The dialog box for creating new documents now presents all document templates with attractive preview images.
• You can now convert AutoShape objects to curves. This gives you amazing new design possibilities.
• Create sophisticated designs by combining multiple AutoShape objects into one.
• Create attractive documents using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files.
• The improved user interface for object sizing enables you to arrange pictures, drawings, text frames and other objects more conveniently.
• The automatic hyphenation with improved hyphenation results lets you write better texts.
• The automatic hyphenation now supports additional languages.

TextMaker

• For German spell checking and grammar checking, the latest version of Duden Korrektor has been added. [SOFTMAKER OFFICE PROFESSIONAL AND NX UNIVERSAL].
• The new text-style analysis checks German texts and gives suggestions for improvement and rewording. [SOFTMAKER OFFICE NX UNIVERSAL]
• TextMaker now integrates directly with the citation and reference management software Zotero, making the creation of academic documents easier than ever. [SOFTMAKER OFFICE PROFESSIONAL AND NX UNIVERSAL]
• Automatically add fold marks to your pages to make sure you fold them right for an envelope.
• Many new included document templates make creating attractive documents easier.
• Enhance your productivity with two customizable sidebars.
• Search your documents using the new sidebar and conveniently browse through the search results.
• Page thumbnails in the sidebar allow for better navigation in large documents.
• The database module has been completely overhauled and now supports not only dBASE databases, but also SQLite databases.
• You can convert your existing dBASE databases to SQLite using the integrated database module.
• You're organizing your contacts using an Excel/PlanMaker file? That's fine: TextMaker now supports XLSX and PMDX files as data sources for mail merges.
• TextMaker now supports footnotes and endnotes in the same document, both seamlessly compatible with Microsoft Word.
• TextMaker now supports Word-compatible multi-page endnotes.
• Improved cross references to headings
• Entries in the table of contents are now clickable. This makes it easy to navigate in large documents.

PlanMaker

• With the new page break preview, you can easily prepare your worksheets for printing.
• Pivot tables now support grouping data items.
• New calculation functions have been added, all compatible to current versions of Microsoft Excel.
• You can now display multiple real-time calculations simultaneously in the status bar.

Presentations

• Create portable slide shows that can be played back on any Windows computer – even if there's no presentation graphics program installed.
• New transitions enable you to create breathtaking slide shows.
• Many transitions are now seamlessly compatible to Microsoft PowerPoint.
• With the new Media ribbon tab, you can manage your movie or sound objects more quickly.
• The new 16:9 design templates let you create attractive slide shows with just a few clicks.