FreeOffice 2018
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How to keep FreeOffice up-to-date
We enhance FreeOffice 2018 continually by fixing bugs and adding new features. Please review the following instructions to ensure that your installation stays current.
FreeOffice for Windows
By default, FreeOffice 2018 for Windows keeps itself up-to-date by automatically downloading service packs from our servers.
If you have not installed the automatic update tool or simply want to know if your version of FreeOffice is current, you can also check for updates manually.
Start one of its applications, click on the "?" icon in the ribbon and choose the command Check for updates. If you are running FreeOffice in classic mode with menus, choose the command Help > Check for updates.
2019-09-05: Revision 970
| All programs | ||
| 40600 | Feature: FreeOffice can now save in DOC, XLS and PPT formats. Previously, it could only open these file types. | |
| 40600 | Feature: A "dark mode", which uses darker colors to reduce eyestrain, is now available in FreeOffice. | |
| TextMaker | ||
| 40600 | Feature: FreeOffice TextMaker can now save in OpenDocument Text format. Previously, it could only open this file type. | |
2019-07-10: Revision 966 (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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. |
| 37459 | Mac, Linux | Feature: SoftMaker FreeOffice now supports TrueType Collections (TTC fonts) in macOS and Linux, too. |
| 39905 | Mac | Feature: Improved keyboard handling: Alt+Cursor and Alt+Shift+Cursor move the caret word by word. |
| – | 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 FreeOffice now supports the Mac IME. |
| 39081 | Mac, Linux | Feature: To ensure that all users on a computer can start SoftMaker FreeOffice 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). |
| TextMaker | ||
| – | Feature: New database module with new features such as viewing CSV files | |
| 15705 | Feature: You can now print selected text. | |
| 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 | |
| 36097 | Feature: Two new field functions have been 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 39838 | Feature: User fields such as name and address are now preserved in DOCX format. | |
| 40282 | Mac | Feature: Paragraphs can now be promoted and demoted with the key combinations Shift+Ctrl+Left and Shift+Ctrl+Right. |
| 39768 | Feature: Improved automatic capitalization: When a paragraph ends with a comma ("Dear Sir,"), the first character in the next paragraph is no longer automatically changed to uppercase. | |
| 40108 | Feature: The RTF export function now saves paper-tray settings. | |
| 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: 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. | |
| Presentations | ||
| 18979 | Feature: You can now format text in multiple columns. | |