SoftMaker Office 2021 for
Windows, Mac and Linux
List of changes
2023-05-17: Revision 1064
| All programs | ||
| – | Miscellaneous bug fixes | |
2023-03-07: Revision 1062
| All programs | ||
| 54808 | The Research command works again with www.wissen.de. | |
| – | Miscellaneous bug fixes | |
2022-12-10: Revision 1060
| TextMaker | ||
| 54422 | Inserting or updating a table of contents could trigger a program abort. | |
| 54433 | Windows | Opening multiple files at once through Explorer could merge them all into one large document instead of loading them into separate tabs or windows. |
2022-11-23: Revision 1059 (macOS only)
| TextMaker | ||
| 54387 | Mac | TextMaker now starts again in macOS before version 10.14. The Duden Korrektor program library called a system function that was only available from macOS 10.14 onwards. |
2022-11-16: Revision 1058
| All programs | ||
| 54104 | Windows | Due to a bug in the Windows 11 22H2 update, it was no longer possible to open documents directly in SoftMaker Office by double-clicking in Explorer. This Windows bug is now circumvented. |
| 54146 | You can now disable the function of the Insert key, which toggles between insert and overwrite mode, in SoftMaker Office. This prevents accidental switching to overwrite mode and also bypasses a bug in the DeepL app that mistakenly sends this keystroke to programs. | |
| 54087 | Windows | Not all available paper sizes were offered for some printers. |
| TextMaker | ||
| 54052 | New feature: New version of the German grammar checker Duden Korrektor with additional grammar rules and an extended dictionary | |
2022-10-04: Revision 1054
| All programs | ||
| 52709 | New feature: Some printer drivers delay the launch of TextMaker, PlanMaker and Presentations for up to 45 seconds if the printer is switched off or unreachable. This problem is now circumvented. | |
| TextMaker | ||
| 53605 | Using an XLSX or PMDX file as a mail-merge source could trigger a program abort in certain situations. | |
| PlanMaker | ||
| 53590 | Changing the column width or row height across multiple worksheets could trigger a program abort. | |
2022-08-10: Revision 1050
| All programs | ||
| 45254 | New feature: The dialog box Options now has a Manage button that enables you to import and export your Office configuration files, such as keyboard mappings, toolbars or user dictionaries. This allows you to synchronize them between different PCs or to restore your current settings in future versions of SoftMaker Office. | |
| 52652 | Windows | New feature: The option Prefer using larger controls in the dialog box Options allows you to specify whether icons, scrollbars, etc. should be enlarged when the screen is scaled to 150%. |
| 53039 46974 53237 | Windows | Pressing Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+3 to change the input language could cause a program abort. |
| TextMaker | ||
| 51577 | New feature: New version of the German grammar checker Duden Korrektor with additional grammar rules and an extended dictionary | |
| 53334 | The setting Print page background is now also saved in RTF and DOCX formats. | |
| PlanMaker | ||
| 52663 52833 52825 | Mac | A program abort could occur when choosing one of the preset filters from the AutoFilter dropdown. |
| 53154 | Using an overly long format string (more than 100 characters) for a user-defined numeric format could cause a program abort. | |
| 53285 | Improved display of numbers with a large number of decimal places | |
2022-04-07: Revision 1046
| All programs | ||
| 52640 52572 | Windows | Slow startup of the applications and unexpected printer changes are now prevented. |
| 52652 | Windows | Scrollbars and the ribbon now appear in the usual size again when the screen is scaled to 150%. |
| TextMaker | ||
| 52629 | You can apply paragraph styles again by double-clicking in the sidebar. | |
| PlanMaker | ||
| 52554 | Copying cells to the clipboard now works again with the usual speed. | |
2022-03-22: Revision 1044
| All programs | ||
| 51895 | Windows | The MSI setup now again allows you to choose a custom target folder for the applications. |
| 51898 52218 | Mac, Linux | On some systems, landscape pages were printed in portrait orientation. |
| 50843 | Windows | An unavailable printer now no longer delays the start of the programs. |
| TextMaker | ||
| 47981 | If you type inside protected text, a message now appears in the status bar. | |
2021-12-17: Revision 1042
| All programs | ||
| – | Miscellaneous bug fixes | |
2021-12-02: Revision 1040
| All programs | ||
| 51133 | Mac | In macOS 12, file dialogs now have the correct size again. |
| TextMaker | ||
| 51577 | New feature: New version of the German grammar checker Duden Korrektor with additional grammar rules and an extended dictionary | |
| 51385 | Links to files and e-mail addresses are now correctly exported to PDF format. | |
| PlanMaker | ||
| 51397 | The TEXTJOIN function now behaves like in Excel in regard to empty cells. | |
| 51294 51137 | Improvements to pivot tables | |
2021-11-02: Revision 1038
| All programs | ||
| 50951 | New feature: You can now insert hyperlinks to files that do not exist yet. | |
| 50768 | Linux | New feature: SoftMaker Office now respects the key definitions in the .XCompose file. |
| TextMaker | ||
| 50367 50912 | Mac | New feature: Duden Korrektor is now also available on M1 Macs. |
| PlanMaker | ||
| 24364 | New feature: Pictures and other objects with the setting "Position: Depends only on cell position" are sorted together with the cells being sorted. | |
| 45124 | The COUNTIF function now works like in Excel. | |
2021-07-19: Revision 1034
| All programs | ||
| 50672 | Mac, Linux | New feature: In addition to the PDF manual, context-sensitive web-based help is now integrated into the programs. |
| 38187 | New feature: In the PDF export dialog box you can now reset the PDF settings with a single click. | |
| 49695 | Mac | New feature: The programs start faster. |
| 46342 | New feature: In touch mode, the fields for color selection are now also enlarged. | |
| 50584 45449 50600 50644 50766 50780 | Some pictures were only partially printed or not printed at all. | |
| TextMaker | ||
| 50620 | New feature: New version of Duden Korrektor | |
| 50543 50580 | TextMaker could crash when inserting objects. | |
| 50534 50559 | TextMaker could crash when searching via the sidebar. | |
| PlanMaker | ||
| 45124 | New feature: In page-break view, the page breaks are displayed in a more pronounced way. | |
| 30766 | Improved formatting of date values in Hungarian, French and Spanish | |
2021-05-20: Revision 1032
| All programs | ||
| 46346 | New feature: Moving small objects is now easier because objects now have an additional movement handle. | |
| 28105 | Linux | The applications are now compatible with the clipboard manager "parcellite". |
| TextMaker | ||
| 49984 | New feature: New version of Duden Korrektor with additional grammar checks for German texts | |
| 47685 | New feature: Encrypted DOCX files with a user defined "salt" value can now be opened. | |
| 44173 44515 50316 | ODT import and export improvements | |
| 49170 | When cropping images, the aspect ratio is now taken into account. | |
| 8185 10217 14130 19256 43558 | The "Replace all" command now works much faster. | |
| 49797 49811 49966 50031 50267 | Zotero integration improvements | |
| 50357 | A program abort with the the Romanian user interface was fixed. | |
| PlanMaker | ||
| 33909 50247 | Minor incompatibilities with Excel related to the SUMPRODUCT and XIRR functions have been fixed. | |
| Presentations | ||
| 46184 | New feature: "Delete" command in the context menu of placeholders | |
| 49840 | Grouped tables can now also be saved in PPTX format. | |
2021-02-05: Revision 1030
| TextMaker | ||
| 49771 49781 | Another issue related to bullets and numbered lists has been fixed. | |
2021-01-27: Revision 1028
| TextMaker | ||
| 42364 | New feature: The Search sidebar now keeps a list of recent searches. | |
| 49610 | Mac, Linux | Numbered lists are now handled correctly again (bug introduced in revision 1026). |
| PlanMaker | ||
| 28191 | New feature: CSV import now lets you choose multiple separators for the same file. | |
| 30634 | New feature: CSV import now accepts the sep= line that defines the item separator in CSV files created by some applications. | |
2021-01-19: Revision 1026
| All programs | ||
| 48766 | Mac | New feature: New application icons that match the macOS icon style better. |
| TextMaker | ||
| 44721 | New feature: Page thumbnails now display their page number. | |
| PlanMaker | ||
| 49330 | PlanMaker no longer crashes when changing a chart axis. | |
2020-12-15: Revision 1024
| All programs | ||
| 46641 48869 | Mac | New feature: A native version of SoftMaker Office for macOS Big Sur and the Apple M1 CPU is now included. |
| TextMaker | ||
| 48628 48645 48634 | Certain old .tmd files were refused by TextMaker. | |
| 48654 | Opening specific .doc files could cause TextMaker to hang. | |
| 44247 | With the Turkish locale, the dotless i and the dotted I are now properly converted to uppercase and lowercase. | |
| 47972 | Three vulnerabilities with specially crafted .tmd files fixed | |
2020-11-11: Revision 1022
| All programs | ||
| 38765 | Linux | New feature: Drag & drop documents, pictures and databases to the SoftMaker Office applications to open them. |
| 43152 | New feature: SoftMaker Office now warns you when your Windows folder, temporary folder or Documents folder run low on disk space. | |
| 47835 | Previewing read-protected documents is now prevented. | |
| TextMaker | ||
| 48477 | New feature: New version of Duden Korrektor for improved German spell checking and grammar checking (SoftMaker Office Professional and SoftMaker Office NX Universal) | |
| 44126 | New feature: Fold marks can now be placed on all pages, not just the first page of a chapter. | |
| 47222 | New feature: When running a manual spell check, you can now choose to start it on the current position or the top of the document. | |
| 47842 | New feature: New target "Table of figures" added to the Go to dialog box | |
| 45910 | New feature: Zotero fields can now be read from and saved to RTF and OpenDocument Text. | |
| 48058 | New feature: The feature for automatically adding spaces to French punctuation marks now works with all variations of French, not only European French. | |
| 47583 46025 47928 | Improvements to Zotero | |
| 47318 41840 | Linux | The page size in the document is now explicitly transferred to CUPS. |
| PlanMaker | ||
| 47723 | Sheet names with apostrophes in their name are now handled correctly. | |
| 48377 | Three vulnerabilities with specially crafted .pmd files fixed | |
| 48047 | Using the Cell style dialog box no longer removes the shortcut key from the cell style being edited. | |
| Presentations | ||
| 48064 | Picture bullets are now retained when saving and reloading a presentation. | |
2020-09-10: Revision 1020
| TextMaker | ||
| 47122 | Mail merges using XLSX files sometimes showed trailing stray characters. | |
| 47124 | CSV files consisting of just one column were refused as invalid. | |
| 47094 | When text was selected, the sidebar no longer displayed the active paragraph style. | |
| 47152 | Changing the line spacing could inadvertently change the font size. | |
| 44515 45351 46841 45705 40031 | Corrected handling of space characters in ODT import | |
| PlanMaker | ||
| 46674 | With PlanMaker running in dark mode, text in tables became hard to read. | |
| 47176 47224 47248 47335 | Mac | The time separator was handled incorrectly, leading to formatting and calculation problems. |
2020-08-21: Revision 1018
| All programs | ||
| 46641 | Mac | SoftMaker Office is now compatible with macOS 11. |
| 46753 | Linux | SoftMaker Office now works again with openSuSE 15.x by working around a bug that SuSE introduced in their Linux distribution. |
| 45704 45559 | Linux | Improved handling of files on network drives |
| 43379 | The loading of hyphenation files was rewritten to speed up program launch. | |
| 46347 | New feature: When objects are very small, four of the eight handles are removed so that the remaining handles can be accessed more easily. | |
| 45638 | Improved rendering of SVG images | |
| TextMaker | ||
| 45913 | New feature: New version of Duden Korrektor included | |
| 46087 | Corrected Undo function | |
| PlanMaker | ||
| 46640 | Corrected reading of read-protected documents | |
| 45025 | New feature: On Danish systems, pressing the decimal point on the numeric keypad now inserts a decimal comma. | |
2020-06-26: Revision 1016
| All programs | ||
| 45214 | Automatic hyphenation did not work for some languages such as German (without Duden Korrektor) and Russian. | |
| 45067 45140 45235 | Pictures with transparency were not correctly exported to PDF. | |
| 45057 45350 | The option "Prompt for summary information when saving" did not work. | |
| 44872 45417 | Improved display and printing of SVG images | |
| 44626 45559 | Linux | You can now open documents on the network offered via gvfs. |
| TextMaker | ||
| 45125 | Undo is now possible for the "Reset numbering" option. | |
| 45136 | Searching for fonts works again. | |
| 45059 | Cross references are no longer restricted to heading levels 1, 2 and 3. | |
| 45461 | Linux | Several stability improvements for the Zotero integration |
| PlanMaker | ||
| 44926 | New feature: The Belarusian ruble is now offered as a currency. | |
| 45109 | After adding a comment, PlanMaker no longer allowed a file save, only Save as. | |
| 45483 | The hotkeys Ctrl+0 and Ctrl+Shift+0 for showing and hiding columns have been changed to Ctrl+8 and Ctrl+Shift+8 to avoid a collision with hotkeys built into Windows. | |
| BasicMaker | ||
| 45063 | Windows | The line-break symbol "_" did not work in combination with the #Include command. |
| 45332 | Windows | BasicMaker no longer crashes when accessing uninitialized variables. |
2020-06-03: Revision 1014
| Revision 1014 was the initial release of SoftMaker Office 2021. |