What's new in SoftMaker Office 2021? Click here for all Features

All Applications:

• 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 now presents all document templates with attractive preview images.
• 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) files.
• 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 licensing model: You can use one license of SoftMaker Office 2021 on any combination of up to five computers running Windows, macOS or Linux.

TextMaker is a compatible alternative to Microsoft Word with following features:

• Automatically add fold marks to your pages to make sure you fold them right for an envelope.
• Many new included document templates make creating attractive documents easier.
• Enhance your productivity with two customizable sidebars.
• 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 not only dBASE databases, but 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.

PlanMaker is a compatible alternative to Microsoft Excel with following features:

• With the new page break preview, you can easily prepare your worksheets for printing.
• Pivot tables now support grouping data items.
• New calculation functions have been added, all compatible to current versions of Microsoft Excel.
• You can now display multiple real-time calculations simultaneously in the status bar.

Presentations is a compatible alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint with following features:

• Create portable slide shows that can be played back on any Windows computer – even if there's no presentation graphics program installed.
• New transitions enable you to create breathtaking slide shows.
• Many transitions are now seamlessly compatible to Microsoft PowerPoint.
• With the new Media ribbon tab, you can manage your movie or sound objects more quickly.
• The new 16:9 design templates let you create attractive slide shows with just a few clicks.

Windows

Mac

Linux

• Microsoft Windows 10, 8, 7
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 or newer

SoftMaker Office is compatible with application servers such as Citrix XenApp and Microsoft Terminal Server.

Any Mac running macOS 10.11 or newer

SoftMaker Office supports all major 64-bit (x86_64 and amd64) Linux distributions.

We test SoftMaker Office with the current versions of the following distributions and recommend choosing one of them:

Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, openSUSE, Fedora, Manjaro