SoftMaker Office
office package for text, tables and presentations
SoftMaker Office is an office suite which aims for compatibility with Microsoft Office. It is available as a one-time purchase, as well as a subscription. A freeware version with a slightly reduced feature set is released under the name SoftMaker FreeOffice.
It has been developed since 1987 by the German company SoftMaker.
Components
The versions Professional (purchase) and NX Universal (subscription) include:
Support for Windows Group Policy
ePUB export,
Zotero integration
Text summary and enhancement with ChatGPT (only subscription)
Translations of whole documents with DeepL (only subscription)
Functionality
SoftMaker Office has similar functionality to other office suites such as Microsoft Office or LibreOffice, and can also run from USB flash drives. Multi-language spell-checking, hyphenation and thesaurus is supported, and it has an integrated translation-dictionary for English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish. For German the Duden spell and grammar checker and dictionaries are included in the Professional version.
It can read and write file formats of Microsoft Office, OpenDocument (word processor only), RTF and HTML. Support for the OpenDocument spreadsheet (ODS) format was added in the Anniversary update released for SoftMaker Office 2018. It can export to PDF and ePUB.
The user interface utilized Ribbons similar to Microsoft Office, and there is an option to use old-school menus instead. A dark mode is available.
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