SoftMaker Office 2021 for
Windows, Mac and Linux
List of changes
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 crash 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. |