SoftMaker Office 2018 for
Windows, Mac and Linux
List of changes
2019-04-18: Revision 962
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| 39736 | Mac | Reduced screen flickering with macOS 10.14.4. We are working on a more complete solution for a future service pack. | ||||||||||||
| 39758 | Windows | When a service pack installation was interrupted because Windows decided to reboot to install some system updates, an incomplete SoftMaker Office installation remained which could not even be repaired by running the service pack installer again. | ||||||||||||
| 39777 |
It is now possible to use old (pre-Anniversary Update) toolbar files again. Copy the toolbar files in the Documents\SoftMaker\Settings folder according to the following table.
Note that doing so will overwrite the new, more logically arranged toolbars and any customizations you have already made to them. Consider making a backup before replacing these files. |
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| 39804 | In some cases, purging a database could cause a program crash. | |||||||||||||
| 39775 | The database viewer that appears when you choose a document template with an attached database now remembers again if you last used list or form view. | |||||||||||||
| 39769 | When you choose a document template with an attached DBF database, the character set for the database is now chosen again correctly. | |||||||||||||
| 39808 | When you use a DBF database with DOS character set, it is now opened with code page 850 instead of 437, allowing use of accented characters of most Western European languages. | |||||||||||||
| PlanMaker | ||||||||||||||
| 39786 | Changing what the AutoFilter displays now updates the online calculation in the status bar. | |||||||||||||
| – | Several improvements to the ODS import filter | |||||||||||||
| BasicMaker | ||||||||||||||
| 39778 | A BasicMaker script can now read cell content from PlanMaker even if the cell is protected. | |||||||||||||
2019-04-10: Revision 960 (Anniversary Update)
| All programs | ||
| 39006 | Feature: TextMaker, PlanMaker and Presentations are now compatible with the file formats of Word 2019, Excel 2019 and PowerPoint 2019. | |
| 38428 | Windows | Feature: You can now scan pages and images using WIA, not only TWAIN. This lets SoftMaker Office work with more scanners, and scanning now also works in the 64-bit version. |
| 11356 | Windows | Feature: With a WIA scanner driver, you can now scan multiple pages in one step. In TextMaker, individual pages are created. In PlanMaker, the images are placed one over the other. In Presentations, individual slides are created. |
| 37997 | Feature: The format brush can now be used with the keyboard: Select text, press Ctrl+Shift+C to copy the formatting, select the destination and press Ctrl+Shift+V to paste the formatting. | |
| 36480 36524 36455 38263 19265 38932 | Feature: With classic menus, TextMaker, PlanMaker and Presentations now offer new toolbars with a more logical arrangement. | |
| 39478 | Feature: The dropdown element Insert | Character has been updated to offer additional typographic characters. | |
| 38694 | Feature: New command ? | Support to send customer inquiries directly from SoftMaker Office | |
| 39053 38694 | Feature: You no longer need an e-mail program to send crash reports because SoftMaker Office now sends them directly. | |
| 19374 | Feature: For better compatibility with Microsoft Office, you can apply negative cropping to pictures. | |
| 38852 | Mac | Feature: You can now drag photos from the Apple Photos application into TextMaker, PlanMaker and Presentations documents. |
| 38680 38694 38840 | Feature: You can now switch between ribbon tabs using the key combinations Ctrl+F12 and Ctrl+Shift+F12. | |
| 20366 | Windows | Feature: You can now enter any Unicode character with the key combination Alt+nnnn key. For example, press Alt+8364 to enter the Euro sign. |
| – | Feature: Many user-interface translations have been updated, and a Polish user interface is now available for the first time. | |
| 30336 38935 | Feature: French typographic rules supported: With French text, quotation marks, question marks, exclamation points, colons and semicolons are now automatically padded with non-breaking spaces. | |
| 38016 | Mac | Feature: You can now enter Chinese, Japanese and Korean text because SoftMaker Office now supports the Mac IME. |
| 39081 | Mac, Linux | Feature: To ensure that all users on a computer can start SoftMaker Office without having to enter the product key again, the license file is now preferred to be stored in /Library/Application support/SoftMaker (macOS) and /etc/SoftMaker (Linux). |
| 26135 | Feature: In the Print dialog box, the list of printers is now sorted alphabetically. | |
| TextMaker | ||
| – | Feature: New database module with new features such as viewing CSV files | |
| 38858 | Feature: Duden Korrektor has been updated to version 3.4 which offers improved grammar and spell checking for German. | |
| 15705 | Feature: You can now print selected text. | |
| 36305 | Feature: You can now save charts as image files. | |
| 38392 | Feature: Text frames and AutoShapes are no longer inserted immediately. Instead, a mouse cursor appears that lets you size the new object before it is created. This new default behavior can be changed in File | Options. | |
| 38377 | Feature: The command View | Set zoom now offers an additional zooming option, "Fit text to window". | |
| 23583 | Feature: Clicking on the language name in the status bar lets you now change the language of the selected text. | |
| 38890 | Feature: You can now edit fields and calculations by double-clicking on them. | |
| 38743 | Feature: New option Skip numbering in numbering lists | |
| 32926 | Feature: Using the triangle icon in the bottom right of the Changes and Comments groups of the ribbon tab Review, you can now quickly change settings for tracked changes and comments. | |
| 36097 | Feature: Two new field functions have been added to Insert | Field: "Page count in chapter" and "Actual page count in chapter" | |
| 8817 | Feature: In File | Properties | Compatibility, the compatibility flags can now be quickly set to specific word processing programs. | |
| 36540 | Feature: Table styles are now fully saved in DOCX and TMDX formats. | |
| 36755 34338 | Feature: Better smart quotes in German: a single apostrophe at the start of a word is turned into a single quotation mark at the bottom. | |
| 38896 | Feature: French: an apostrophe inside a word is no longer converted to a › sign. | |
| 38790 | Feature: To open a hyperlink, use Ctrl+click now instead of a simple click. If you let the mouse hover over a hyperlink, a tooltip gives the URL. | |
| PlanMaker | ||
| 16847 36044 | Feature: PlanMaker now supports the option Precision as displayed which continues calculations with the visible precision of cells. If cell A1 contains 3.3 but is only shown with two digits (3.33), then 3*A1 will be 9.99 and not 10. | |
| 25467 | Feature: New command Insert copied cells that moves existing cells or rows down or to the right to make room for the pasted content | |
| 37212 37213 38606 38651 | Feature: Improved AutoFilter function: hierarchical grouping of dates, more options for the Numbers filter, new Date and Text filters | |
| 26408 | Feature: Experimental import filter for OpenDocument Calc files | |
| 27598 37928 | Feature: Nearly 50 calculation functions added, mainly in statistics | |
| 35000 | Feature: You can now search for line breaks in the Search dialog box. | |
| 38289 | For negative base numbers, the precedence of the power operator ^ over the sign operator now works like in Excel. | |
| – | Feature: Updated manuals and help files that describe pivot tables and the new calculation functions | |
| Presentations | ||
| 36305 | Feature: You can now save charts as image files. | |
| 18979 | Feature: You can now format text in multiple columns. | |
| BasicMaker | ||
| 37342 | Windows | Feature: BasicMaker scripts can now also be run with the 64-bit version of SoftMaker Office. |