SoftMaker Office 2018 for
Windows, Mac and Linux
List of changes
2018-12-12: Revision 944
| Installation | ||
| 39170 | Windows | A very small number of computers refused to give the MSI setup administrative privileges, resulting in the error message "Could not access network location \inst\mydoc\Bullets" and an aborted instalation. |
| 39178 | Windows | On Brazilian systems, the setup program started in European Portuguese. |
| TextMaker | ||
| 39187 | In some cases, TextMaker recreated templates and sample files in an arbitrary document folder instead of My documents\SoftMaker. | |
| 38648 | Keyboard input is no longer discarded while an auto-recovery file is created. | |
2018-11-30: Revision 942
| All programs | ||
| 39071 | Windows | The SoftMaker Office applications could not be started if the Documents\SoftMaker folder was set to "hidden". |
| 38882 38984 38930 39058 | Windows | SoftMaker Office no longer crashes during start-up when incompatible data is in the clipboard. |
| 39072 | Windows | The Open file dialog box did not appear anymore when the previous path was on a network and was no longer accessible. |
| TextMaker | ||
| 38841 38847 | Some improvements to footnote handling | |
| 38888 | Custom date formats are now preserved across sessions, no longer cause crashes. | |
| 38994 | A table that is longer than a page could hide a text frame on the following page. | |
| 38916 | A broken math font could cause a crash in the rendering of equations. | |
| 38920 | Bullets in documents created by TextMaker are now correctly displayed by Microsoft Word Online. | |
| 36158 | Images placed in the clipboard by Thunderbird using Data URIs now can be pasted in TextMaker. | |
| 39100 | Character spacing is now saved correctly in DOCX and TMDX formats. | |
| 39130 | Improved display of numbered lists | |
| PlanMaker | ||
| 38894 | PDF files could not be renamed in the Open file dialog box. | |
| 38946 | The function IFERROR is now stored in XLSX files in a way that is compatible with Apache POI. | |
| 38992 | The thousands separator is now imported better from XLSX files. | |
| 39013 | Dates from a date filter in pivot tables were displayed as numbers instead of dates. | |
| 39055 | Feature: You can now form a valid address from two INDIRECT calls using the ":" operator: =INDIRECT(...):INDIRECT(...) | |
| 39157 | XLSX files with invalid tables (created by LibreOffice) no longer cause a crash. | |
| Presentations | ||
| 39070 | Custom vertical positions of bullets are now saved in PPTX and PRDX formats. | |
2018-11-07: Revision 940
| TextMaker | ||
| 38562 | Linux | TextMaker no longer needs libidn.so.11 which is not provided by some Linux distributions anymore. |
2018-10-04: Revision 938
| TextMaker | ||
| 38835 | Bookmarks are preserved when saving in DOCX and TMDX format. | |
2018-09-25: Revision 936
| All programs | ||
| 38439 | Feature: You can now assign hotkeys to show and hide the sidebar. | |
| 38151 38198 | Windows | Feature: If you use a 4-way mouse which supports horizontal scrolling with the mousewheel, SoftMaker Office is now compatible with it. |
| 38151 38575 | Linux | Feature: You can now scroll horizontally with the mousewheel, if you press Shift while moving the wheel. |
| 38298 | Windows | Feature: You can now paste images from viewers like ACDSee into your documents. |
| 38587 | Feature: The dialog box Manage license now tells you if you use SoftMaker Office NX Home or Universal. | |
| 37157 | Feature: If you have set an incorrect path for backup files, the error message now explains how to resolve the problem. | |
| 38509 | Feature: The keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+K (all operating systems) and Cmd+K (Mac) now open the Hyperlink dialog box. | |
| 37969 | Windows | Feature: If you snap a SoftMaker Office application window to the left or right border on your monitor and exit the application, this position will now be restored when you start the application again. |
| 38571 | Linux | The error message "HOME is not assigned" no longer appears when installing on Linux Mint. |
| 38482 | Mac | SoftMaker Office is compatible with macOS 10.9 again. |
| 38490 38573 | Linux | The automatic update checker at program launch could cause a crash in certain situations. |
| 38665 | Linux | Running SoftMaker Office on a system without XIM could cause a crash in certain situations. |
| 38384 | Mac | If the automatic update checker finds a service pack, the browser window now opens in the foreground. |
| 38617 | Mac | Copy and paste now works in the Apple file dialogs. |
| 38450 | Nicer messagebox icons in dark mode | |
| 38512 | The command View side by side is now only available if at least two documents have been opened. | |
| 38646 | Linux, Mac | After using the command View side by side, dialog boxes were no longer displayed centered. |
| 38519 | No crashes anymore with certain Hunspell dictionaries | |
| 37467 | In dark mode, hyperlinks in dialog boxes are now shown with a lighter, more readable color. | |
| TextMaker | ||
| 36959 | Feature: When you insert an image in a table cell, the cell is now vertically resized to fit in the image. | |
| 38444 38484 38436 38483 38508 38517 38489 38543 38542 | Improvements to the RTF, DOCX, DOC and OpenDocument filters | |
| 38481 | The Duden Korrektor tooltips sometimes did not disappear when switching to another application. | |
| 38578 | Some .tmd files created by TextMaker 2006 could not be opened by the 64-bit version of TextMaker 2018. | |
| 38747 | The functions "Text rotation" and "Vertical alignment" were not available from the ribbon for text frames. | |
| 38736 | TextMaker now remembers that you chose the Hunspell dictionary for the old German spelling. | |
| 38032 | Mac | In database view, the command Preferences from the Apple menu is now disabled. |
| PlanMaker | ||
| 38695 | XLSX files from nationalpooling.com can now be opened in PlanMaker. | |
| 38442 | Mac | On Macs with Swiss country settings, PlanMaker offered "Germany DM" as the default currency. |
| Presentations | ||
| 38713 | The More... command in the Animations dropdown did not add animations. | |
2018-06-21: Revision 933
| All programs | ||
| 38396 | Feature: The dialog box Manage license now shows what variant of SoftMaker Office 2018 (Standard, Professional, etc.) is currently running. | |
| 38423 | The SoftMaker Office applications can no longer be closed when a dialog box is open. | |
| 38324 | Windows | It was possible to lose the Windows taskbar when going to full-screen mode. |
| 35810 | Feature: The File | Open dropdown now has an additional entry at the bottom that lets you browse for documents. | |
| 38382 | Linux, Mac | The included Noto Sans Arabic font has been updated, so that Arabic question marks are shown when the Arabic user interface is active. |
| 38379 | Linux | On some systems, composed characters could no longer be entered starting with revision 928. |
| 38398 | Linux | On some systems, the em-dash could no longer be entered using the Compose key. |
| 38399 | Linux | Japanese text input using fcitx-mozc works again. |
| 39318 | Mac | PDF files with embedded OpenType PS fonts now render correctly in the macOS PDF preview. |
| 38197 | Linux | Feature: Whenever SoftMaker Office for Linux crashes, you now have the option to send a crash report to SoftMaker, letting us find the problem more quickly. |
| 38407 | Windows | Starting with build 17134 of Windows 10, the taskbar could become invisible when it was set to auto-hide and SoftMaker Office was running with colorful ribbons and maximized windows. |
| TextMaker | ||
| 38354 | Feature: It is now possible to open password-protected DOCX files with modified password protection (custom values for SHA and the CNG salt). | |
| 30838 | The TMDX file format can now save language codes for German using the old (pre-1996) spelling. | |
| 37773 | Linux | Feature: Images from https web sites can now be pasted from Firefox in Fedora and openSUSE (this worked already in Debian, Ubuntu and Linux Mint). |
| 37262 | Feature: The command "Convert Thunderbird address book" is now also available on the ribbon. | |
| 38303 | In certain situations, Duden Korrektor did not read all words from the user dictionary before starting a spell check. | |
| 38402 | In certain situations, text frames could be dropped when saving in TMDX format. | |
| 38406 | In some cases, the order of digits in Arabic text was reversed. | |
| 15996 | The baseline of form controls now aligns with the surrounding text. | |
| 37696 | Feature: You can now see all Duden Korrektor proofing options in File | Options | Language. | |
| 37692 | Feature: TextMaker now launches faster because of improvements to how Duden Korrektor is initialized. | |
| 37565 | Certain foreign words are no longer flagged as "foreign" by Duden Korrektor. | |
| 35690 37506 | Typing delays with Duden Korrektor fixed | |
| 38395 | Section breaks were sometimes lost when saving to TMDX format. | |
| 37263 | Improved EPUB export | |
| 38432 | Feature: With extended support for Arabic turned on, icons for changing the writing direction are automatically added to the ribbon. | |
| 38431 | In certain situations, saving in TMDX or DOCX format removed the connection between footnote numbers and footnote text. | |
| PlanMaker | ||
| 38393 | Negative offsets for shadows in charts are now preserved. | |
| 38429 | The icons for increasing/decreasing the number of decimal places are now swapped. | |
| Presentations | ||
| 38351 | The Restore layout command now also restores footer placeholders. | |
| 38039 | If footer placeholders are removed from the main master, they will also not be created in the layouts. | |
2018-05-23: Revision 931
| All programs | ||
| 37003 | Feature: When a chart is selected, its ribbon tab now offers dropdown elements for fills and lines. | |
| 38116 | Mac, Linux | Feature: SoftMaker Office now includes replacement fonts for Calibri, Cambria and Segoe UI. |
| 38116 | Mac, Linux | Feature: The included Noto Sans font has been updated. |
| 37963 | Linux | Feature: Claws Mail has been added to the list of e-mail clients in the "Send document by e-mail" function. |
| 38198 | Windows | Feature: If your mouse can scroll horizontally with its wheel, SoftMaker Office now supports it. |
| 38151 | Mac | Feature: Smooth scrolling in documents |
| 38151 | Mac | Feature: Support for horizontal scrolling with trackpads |
| 38151 | Mac | Feature: SoftMaker Office now honors the Mac system option "Click in the scroll bar to...". |
| 38301 | Windows | With build 1803 of Windows 10, the program title bar was no longer correctly displayed in ribbon mode. |
| 38303 | In certain situations, a wrong file was used for the user dictionary, resulting in words added to the spell checker still being flagged as unknown. | |
| 38195 38201 | Mac, Linux | Copying or pasting content could crash the applications. |
| 37843 | Mac | Files on network drives could only be opened "read-only". |
| 37874 | Mac, Linux | The setting "Print in black & white" in the Print dialog box was ignored. |
| 38211 | Mac | Sorting ignored the country settings. |
| 38125 | If you send a password-protected file by e-mail, the password is now retained. | |
| 38011 | The keyboard option in the "Customize user interface" dialog box now distinguishes between Ctrl+5 above the main keys and on the numeric keypad. | |
| 37746 | You can now customize the key used to open the Hamburger menu in ribbon mode. | |
| 30496 | The dropdown elements in the ribbon now work with the Arabic user interface. | |
| 37968 | When a dropdown list is open, switching to full-screen mode no longer causes a crash. | |
| 38164 | Windows | Transparency is now handled correctly with 3D AutoShapes. |
| TextMaker | ||
| 36670 | Feature: New version of Duden Korrektor for German grammar checking (this feature above is only available if you download and run the MSI installation package again.) | |
| 8889 | Feature: More than one object can now be pasted from the clipboard to the body text in editing mode. | |
| 10103 | Feature: You can now customize the keyboard mapping for TextMaker's database window. | |
| 33702 | Feature: You can now abort dragging a tab or indent marker in the ruler with Esc or Alt+Tab. | |
| 38180 | Spell checking with Duden Korrektor is now faster. | |
| 33977 38265 30764 38249 38325 38323 | Improvements to the file filters for RTF, DOC and OpenDocument Text | |
| 37881 | Speed improvements to RTF import | |
| 38105 | Inserting a field could cause a crash. | |
| 30715 | REF and PAGEREF fields are now imported better from .doc files. | |
| 38306 | The table-row option "Keep with next row" is now saved to .tmdx format. | |
| 38304 | Arabic text in tables is now correctly saved to .tmdx and .docx format. | |
| 1649 | Windows | If you drag a template with an attached database onto the TextMaker window, the addressbook now opens. |
| PlanMaker | ||
| 33702 | Feature: You can now abort dragging a worksheet tab with Esc or Alt+Tab. | |
| 30843 | When used with empty arguments, the INDEX function now behaves like in Excel. | |
| 38099 | Improvements to opening .xls files with pivot tables | |
| 38153 | Pasting RTF text from TextMaker no longer modifies the cell styles in PlanMaker. | |
| 38311 | Pivot tables can now be created from tables even if the first row of each column is empty. | |
| 37606 | Overly long text in cells no longer causes overlapping. | |
| 38339 | With "Always show comments", inserting a row above a comment could cause strange display of that comment. | |
| Presentations | ||
| – | Mac | Speed improvements for animations |
| 38089 | The ribbon tab "Object" is no longer shown for tables. | |
| 38144 | Trying to delete a header/footer placeholder only deleted its content, but not the placeholder itself. | |
| 38276 | Applying a layout to all slides could cause a crash. | |
| 38185 | When a .prdx file is already opened by one user, another user can now open it only read-only. | |
| BasicMaker | ||
| 35967 | Windows | Keyboard shortcuts did not work in the variable and output window. |
2018-03-15: Revision 928
| Revision 928 was the initial version of SoftMaker Office 2018 for Mac. |
2018-03-14: Revision 928
| All programs | ||
| 37946 | With the French user interface, the Open file dialog box now shows documents when "All documents" is selected. | |
| 37957 | In full-screen mode, the font and font size dropdown lists did not always work. | |
| 38014 | Windows | When you save a file, you can now use dots in the file name without SoftMaker Office complaining that the file extension does not match the file type. |
| 38002 | Linux | With system file dialogs, the Open file dialog box did not automatically switch to the templates folder when the file type "Templates" was selected. |
| 38036 | Linux | The middle mouse button no longer pastes by default. This behavior can still be activated in File | Options. |
| 38046 | Linux | Copying the keyboard mapping to the clipboard did not work. |
| 38073 | Linux | Text can now be copied from the system file dialog and pasted into the document. |
| 36919 | Feature: The software now shows a dialog box after a service pack has been installed automatically. | |
| TextMaker | ||
| 37705 | In DOCX and TMDX file formats, dropdown lists now keep their name. | |
| 37885 | Underlining in text fields is now painted at the correct position. | |
| 37919 | Changing the font size no longer removes double strikethrough. | |
| 37830 | Custom values for the position and size of subscripted and superscripted text are now stored in TMDX format. | |
| 37906 | The footnote separator line is now thinner by default. | |
| 37906 | Custom values for the thickness of the footnote separator line are now stored in TMDX format. | |
| 37662 | The New document dialog box now shows the document description also for TMVX, DOTX, DOT and OTT templates. | |
| 37954 | Numbered lists with skipped numbering are now correctly stored in TMDX format. | |
| 38023 | Editing a numbered list could cause a crash in certain situations. | |
| 37902 | Custom chapter numbers are now stored in TMDX format. | |
| 38059 | The Open file dialog box did not appear with the Latvian user interface. | |
| PlanMaker | ||
| 37662 | The New document dialog box now shows the document description also for PMVX and XLTX templates. | |
| 37916 | You can no longer use table names for cell ranges in the Input validation dialog box because Excel cannot handle this. | |
| 36682 | Feature: You can now apply Freeze top row after Freeze first column, and vice-versa, without one deactivating the other. | |
| 38050 | In cells formatted as "Percentage", the % sign is not added to your input when it starts =, + or –. | |
| Presentations | ||
| 37662 | The New document dialog box now shows the document description also for PRV, POT, PRVX and POTX files. | |
| 37877 | Elbow connectors could get detached when saving in PRDX or PPTX formats. | |
| 37911 | PPT import sometimes added borders around text frames. | |
| 38010 | Grouping and ungrouping objects works again. | |
| 38077 | Pressing Ctrl+Back now deletes the word to the left of the cursor, instead of just selecting it. | |
| BasicMaker | ||
| 37834 | Windows | BasicMaker now re-uses the variable window when it is already open. |
2018-02-07: Revision 924
| Revision 924 was the initial version of SoftMaker Office 2018 for Linux. |
2018-01-30: Revision 923
| All programs | |
| 36749 | You can now drag and drop a file to any program window, not only to the first one opened. |
| 37836 | Sometimes the wrong toolbar or ribbon tab was preselected in the Customize dialog box. |
| TextMaker | |
| 37809 | When saving in .doc format, sometimes object properties were applied to the wrong object. |
| 37830 | Customized values for subscript/superscript size and position are now saved in .tmdx format. |
| 37870 | Sometimes the content of text frames was not saved to .tmd format. |
| 37754 | Searching backwards now is able to replace all characters. |
| PlanMaker | |
| 37618 | Feature: The Styles dialog box now lets you hide all unused cell styles. |
| 37770 | Character styles are now correctly saved in .pmdx, .xlsx and .xls formats. |
| Presentations | |
| 37800 | Inner margins of table cells are now saved in .prdx and .pptx formats. |
2018-01-22: Revision 922
| All programs | |
| 37716 | When uninstalling SoftMaker Office, the folders dpf and tb are now also removed. |
| 37449 | The command View | Windows now also lets you switch to documents in other instances of TextMaker, PlanMaker and Presentations. |
| 37732 | The function View side by side now also works in full-screen mode. |
| 20292 | Feature: You can now create user-defined buttons with a text label instead of an icon. Select "No icon" in the Customize dialog box. |
| 37054 | Feature: Add/remove commands in the Customize ribbon dialog box by double-clicking on an entry in the left or right listbox. |
| 37591 | Feature: When you export a document to PDF for the first time, the path and name of the document is offered. |
| 37577 | Feature: The automatic updater now also updates portable installations. |
| TextMaker | |
| 37661 | Using Window > View side by side with classic menus in Windows 8 or 10 could result in very narrow document windows. |
| 37289 | Improved text wrapping around 3D AutoShapes |
| 37629 | The z-order of objects is now preserved when saving in .tmdx format. |
| 37640 | Export of OLE objects to PDF works now. |
| 37669 | The Help menu in database view now offers only commands that are available in that view. |
| 37529 37601 |
In Windows 10, TextMaker could crash with multiple documents in multiple program windows. |
| 37735 | RTF files from Zotero are now imported with correct indents. |
| 37676 | Duden Korrektor no longer blocks other languages from hyphenating correctly. |
| 37701 | When searching for formatting, borders and shading are no longer silently added. |
| 37729 | The active page of the sidebar is reactivated when the print preview is closed. |
| 37715 | The full list of more than 9000 label types is now available again in the Label function. |
| PlanMaker | |
| 36233 37704 37708 |
When saving in .pmdx and .xlsx formats, PlanMaker no longer adds unwanted formatting (such as shading or borders) to unused cells. |
| 37287 | .pmdx files associated with PlanMaker 2016 can now be associated with PlanMaker 2018. |
| 37652 | When a cell is formatted in "Accounting" format, the ribbon control for the numeric format now shows it, instead of displaying it as "Custom." |
| 37736 | Feature: The Styles control in the ribbon now lets you hide all unused cell styles. |
| 37235 | With the dark theme, text on colored worksheet tabs is now displayed with a contrasting color. |
| 36887 | When creating a table, PlanMaker no longer always offers to turn the first row into a header row, but examines it to make a decision. |
| 37719 | When saving to .xls format, foreground and background colors that are part of conditional formatting are no longer swapped. |
| 37745 | In Paste special, pasting column width and row height also is possible when pasting of all other types of formatting is disabled. |
| 35896 | Improved handling of cells with logical values |
| Presentations | |
| 37656 | Feature: If you press the Alt key when moving a guide, the guide snaps to the grid. |
| 37658 | In the Guides & grid dialog box, the position of vertical guides was checked against the width of the slide, instead of the height. |
| 18179 | In rare situations, the dialog box Insert slide had two scrollbars. |
| 37743 | It is now possible to abort dragging tabs and indents in the ruler by pressing the Esc key. |
2017-12-14: Revision 920
| Setup | |
| 36896 | Repairing an installation now also repairs the file associations. |
| 37300 | The setup program now installs SoftMaker Office for all users of the computer. |
| Note: | The two features above are only available if you download the MSI installation package again. |
| All programs | |
| 37522 | Feature: You can now right-click on a toolbar or ribbon to change the user interface, even if no document is open. |
| 36137 37551 37165 |
Feature: The command View | Windows | View side by side is now also available in PlanMaker and Presentations, and improved in TextMaker. |
| 37610 37224 37388 |
Feature: SoftMaker Office is now compatible with system utilities such as Actual Window Manager, MonitorSwitch and Chameleon Window Manager. |
| 36995 | Several improvements to the display and rotation of 3D AutoShapes |
| 36999 | Improved display of the wireframe when moving 3D objects |
| 37600 | When running from a USB flash drive, temporary files are now correctly removed from the temp folder. |
| 37540 | In rare cases, saving a file after several hours of operation could result in the error message "File could not be created". |
| 37228 | The applications no longer crash when a font is used that is either defective or installed in an unusual location. |
| TextMaker | |
| 37539 | When specific documents were opened, text with hyperlinks was invisible. |
| 37561 | Defective RTF files created by the Heredis software no longer crash TextMaker. |
| 37535 | When an object is deleted, the object list in the sidebar is now updated. |
| 37550 37631 37634 37573 |
Improvements to the RTF filter |
| 37574 | TextMaker no longer crashes when saving the Duden Korrektor configuration. |
| 37529 | Crashes no longer occur with multiple open document windows when printing from one of the windows. |
| PlanMaker | |
| 37512 | The function Summarize as pivot no longer claims overlapping ranges when the target is in a different sheet. |
| 37410 | The warning message about unsupported Visual Basic control elements can now be disabled. |
| 37585 | Length of data bars is now restricted like in Excel. |
| 37611 | AutoFilter crash fixed |
| Presentations | |
| 37436 | Crash fixed related to previewing animation schemes |
| 37439 | Improved opening of PPS files |
2017-11-28: Revision 918
| All programs | |
| 37330 | Hyperlinks in documents and elsewhere now always open in a web browser. |
| 37373 | The user is asked to enter name and address at program launch, so that templates are correctly filled. |
| 37418 | The new dropdown elements now work with the Arabic user interface. |
| 37333 | Crash fixed in regard to 3D settings applied to AutoShapes |
| 37347 | Crash fixed in the 3D sheet of the AutoShape properties dialog box |
| 36270 | Improved information on first launch how to run SoftMaker Office in trial mode |
| TextMaker | |
| 37284 | Crash in File | New fixed |
| 37391 | TextMaker no longer asks for a form password in documents that have no such password. |
| 37394 | Crash in RTF clipboard fixed |
| 37396 | Reading of bullets in .tmdx and .docx formats improved |
| 37368 | Reading of table frames from .doc files improved |
| – | Miscellaneous bug fixes |
| PlanMaker | |
| 37255 | The special filter can now be reset again. |
| 37247 | Opening the AutoFilter dropdown now works reliably. |
| 37307 | Closing PlanMaker could cause a crash. |
| 36704 | Improved import of connector lines |
| 30782 | Dropdown lists for input validation are no longer limited to 400 entries. |
| – | Miscellaneous bug fixes |
| Presentations | |
| 37420 | Feature: New screen size "16:9, large" added (called "Widescreen" in PowerPoint) |
| 37232 | On very old Intel GMA graphics chips (ca. 2009), OpenGL is now automatically disabled so that the application starts successfully. |
| 37346 | Crashes with animations fixed |
| 37315 | Crashes with OpenGL handling fixed |
| – | Miscellaneous bug fixes |
| BasicMaker | |
| 37376 | Updated .bau files |
| – | Miscellaneous bug fixes |
2017-11-07: Revision 916
| Revision 916 was the initial version of SoftMaker Office 2018 for Windows. |