New licensing model: You can use one universal license of SoftMaker Office 2021 on up to five computers in household running any of Windows, macOS or Linux operating systems.
Powerful new Research function: Select any term in your document and look it up in a large variety of online dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Export your documents to PDF/A for long-term preservation.
The enhanced version control allows you to “travel back in time”: You can not only go back to manually saved states of your document, but also revisit an arbitrary number of automatic backups.
The dialog box for creating new documents shows all document templates with attractive thumbnail preview.
You can now convert AutoShape objects to curves. This gives you amazing new design possibilities.
Create sophisticated designs by combining multiple AutoShape objects into one.
Create attractive documents using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
The improved user interface for object sizing enables you to arrange pictures, drawings, text frames and other objects more conveniently.
The automatic hyphenation with improved hyphenation results lets you write better texts.
The automatic hyphenation now supports additional languages.
New document templates make creating attractive documents more attractive.
Enhance your productivity with two customizable sidebars.
Automatically add fold marks to your pages to make sure you fold them right for an envelope.
Search your documents using the new sidebar and conveniently browse through the search results.
Page thumbnails in the sidebar allow for better navigation in large documents.
The database module has been completely overhauled and now supports additionally to dBASE databases also SQLite databases.
You can convert your existing dBASE databases to SQLite using the integrated database module.
You’re organizing your contacts using an Excel/PlanMaker file? That’s fine: TextMaker now supports XLSX and PMDX files as data sources for mail merges.
TextMaker now supports footnotes and endnotes in the same document, both seamlessly compatible with Microsoft Word.
TextMaker now supports Word-compatible multi-page endnotes.
Improved cross references to headings.
Entries in the table of contents are now clickable, making it easy to navigate in large documents.
TextMaker now integrates directly with the citation and reference management software Zotero, making the creation of scientific documents easier than ever. [SoftMaker Office Professional]
For German spell checking and grammar checking, the latest version of Duden Korrektor has been added. [SoftMaker Office Professional]