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 sections of the ribbon tab Review, you can now quickly change settings for tracked changes and comments. | |
| 36097 | Feature: Two new field types 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. |
2019-02-15: Revision 946
| All programs | ||
| 39485 | Linux | Gnome is now detected again on Fedora 29. |
| 39249 39474 | Mac | Resizing the program window no longer causes painting glitches on macOS 10.14.2 and above. |
| TextMaker | ||
| 39313 | Windows | Paper-tray settings are now stored in TMDX and DOCX files. |
| 39299 | Indents are now correct in DOCX files created by Apple Pages. | |
| 39422 | Tabs in RTF files created by Mac Textedit are now imported correctly. | |
| 39402 | Vertical alignment in text fields is now stored in TMDX and DOCX files. | |
| PlanMaker | ||
| 39285 | Opening a workbook with page sizes larger than A3 works now. | |
| Presentations | ||
| 39469 | Connector lines are now drawn like in PowerPoint. | |
| 39423 | Transparency of AutoShapes is now handled correctly in PRDX and PPTX files. | |
2018-12-21: Revision 945
| All programs | ||
| 39249 | Mac | Redraw problems that started with macOS 10.14.2 are fixed. |
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. |
| All programs | ||
| 39187 | In some cases, TextMaker recreated templates and sample files in an arbitrary document folder instead of My documents\SoftMaker. | |
| TextMaker | ||
| 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 | Mac, Linux | 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 Grid & guides 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. |