New revisions of SoftMaker Office NX and SoftMaker Office 2026 are released regularly and include improvements and fixes. These are installed automatically in the form of service packs.

• 2026-11-09: Revision 1506

  Revision 1506 includes a number of improvements and fixes for SoftMaker Office NX and SoftMaker Office Professional 2026.

• 2026-10-28: Revision 1505 for iOS and Android

  With revision 1505, the new generation of SoftMaker Office NX is now also available for iOS and Android.

• 2026-09-28: Revision 1504

  Revision 1504 fixes various issues in SoftMaker Office NX and SoftMaker Office Professional 2026.

• 2026-08-11: Revision 1502

  Revision 1502 is the first service pack for SoftMaker Office NX and the first version of SoftMaker Office Professional 2026.

• 2026-07-14: Revision 1500

  Revision 1500 is the first version of the new generation of SoftMaker Office NX.

2026-11-09: Improvements in revision 1506

Revision 1506 includes a number of improvements and fixes for SoftMaker Office NX and SoftMaker Office Professional 2026:

All applications

• New feature: You can now add individual SmartChat commands directly to context menus and toolbars.
• PDF images in documents are now also visible in Microsoft Office.
• When Asian fonts are missing, Japanese fallback fonts are now used if the user interface is set to Japanese and Chinese fallback fonts if it is set to Chinese.
• On Windows, Smart App Control could block individual program components. This has been fixed by updating the digital signatures.

TextMaker

• New feature: Markdown is now also available as a format under File | Send and File | Share.
• Reopening TMDX files could change the spacing between the document text and the headers and footers. This has been fixed.
• Image colors set to transparent now remain transparent after saving and reopening the document.
• Text corrected with LanguageTool could remain underlined as incorrect.
• The Word setting “Do not check spelling or grammar” was incorrectly imported as “No language.”
• Translating entire documents with DeepL now also works when the source language is selected manually.
• On Linux, TextMaker could freeze when translating entire documents.
• Chapter headings in the headers of ODT files are now imported more accurately. Previously, a page number appeared there instead of the heading.
• The print preview sometimes displayed “Untitled” instead of the file name in headers and footers.
• Mac: On macOS, Gatekeeper no longer prevents TextMaker from launching.

PlanMaker

• New feature: CSV import now also recognizes ISO 8601 timestamps with a trailing “Z,” such as those used by Home Assistant.
• Date, time and currency formats could be lost when opening files in the old PMD format.
• Excel files with a large number of graphic objects now open faster and more reliably.
• Filter settings could be lost when refreshing pivot tables.
• In certain Excel files, colored table rows and charts appeared black.
• Switching to portrait orientation in the print dialog could cause printed content to be cut off even though the preview looked correct.

Presentations

• In certain PowerPoint files, slide titles appeared in the wrong font size.
• In placeholders, the icons for inserting pictures, tables and charts now scale up to match the Windows display scaling setting.
• Linux: The program could crash when opening presentations with corrupted embedded fonts.

2026-10-28: Improvements in revision 1505

Revision 1505 is the first version of the new generation of SoftMaker Office NX for iPhone, iPad and Android. You can download the apps for free from the Apple App Store and Google Play:

Most features in the apps are free to use. As a SoftMaker Office NX user, you can unlock the remaining features for free:

• Android: Enter your SoftMaker Office NX product key.
• iOS: Enter your SoftMaker customer number and your SoftMaker account password.

2026-09-28: Improvements in revision 1504

Revision 1504 fixes a number of issues in SoftMaker Office NX and SoftMaker Office Professional 2026:

• In dark mode, the active document tab is now easier to identify.
• The Hunspell dictionary for Afrikaans can now be installed.
• SoftMaker Office now respects the system's default duplex printing setting.
• Single-page documents are no longer printed in duplex mode when duplex printing is enabled.
• TextMaker: A crash during grammar checking with LanguageTool has been fixed.
• TextMaker: Opening certain documents could cause the program to crash.
• TextMaker: All translation commands are now available in the context menu.
• TextMaker: When you create PDF forms, form object names are exported to the PDF file.
• TextMaker for Mac: With dictation mode enabled, you can now insert a tab character in table cells using Ctrl+Tab.
• PlanMaker: The COUNTIF function is now Excel-compatible even in edge cases.
• Presentations for Mac: With dictation mode enabled, text could not be entered in the notes pane.

2026-08-11: Improvements in revision 1502

Revision 1502 is both the first service pack for SoftMaker Office NX and the initial release of the permanent version, SoftMaker Office Professional 2026.

Many of the new features that have been available in SoftMaker Office NX since July 2026 are now also available in SoftMaker Office Professional 2026. The exceptions are all AI features, DeepL translation and grammar checking with LanguageTool.

In addition to various bug fixes, revision 1502 includes a usability improvement: Click inside a table, move the mouse pointer to its upper-left corner and click once to select the entire table. The mouse pointer temporarily changes to an arrow pointing down and to the right.

2026-07-14: New generation of SoftMaker Office NX NX UNIVERSALNX HOME

Revision 1500 is the first shipping version of the new generation of SoftMaker Office NX. Enhancements include new versions of LanguageTool and Duden Korrektor, improved AI features – including AI-powered image creation and editing – dynamic arrays and XLOOKUP in PlanMaker, a new extra-dark dark mode and much more.