IBM Lotus Symphony is a richly-featured set of productivity tools that are intuitive and easy to use and provided at no charge. There are three applications that make up Lotus Symphony: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, Lotus Symphony Presentations.
Lotus Symphony puts you in charge – take control over spiraling upgrade costs, ensure access to documents well into the future with new standard file formats (ODF), get more from your current investments with support for Microsoft Windows and Office file types.
IBM Lotus Symphony interface is very easy to use and the users can enjoy the online community for tips, templates and support.
Businesses can control software acquisition and upgrade costs, provide ability to compatibility with Microsoft Office file formats, protect future access to documents with support for ODF and support a global workforce with Lotus Symphony`s native language support for over 23 languages.
Developers can extend their applications with the power of Lotus Symphony through support for plug-ins and, when the Lotus Symphony editors inside Lotus Notes are used, rich composite applications.
Lotus Notes users can create, edit, and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with the integrated version of Lotus Symphony which is built into the Lotus Notes client user interface.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
New Features:
· VBA scripts support
· ODF 1.2 standard support
· Office 2007 OLE support
· Brand new sidebars containing enriched property sections and panels across different editors, with support of sidebar panel management to show or hide sidebar panels
· Ability to customize toolbar content and layout
· Ability to create new business cards and labels
· Ability to insert OLE, audio and video files
· Master document support
· Support of Live Text
· Enabled file encryption and password protection with Microsoft Word and Excel files
· Support for "Open in new window". Users can use Command+~ on Mac OS and Alt + Tab on XP/Vista to switch windows
· New clip art gallery
· More template files
· Support of VML images in OOXML files
· Support of more parameters for protecting spreadsheet files and sheets in VBA API
· Support of separate downloads of spell check dictionary addons for 22 languages for Windows OS users
· Support of same build re-installation in silent mode on Windows
· Support of online check of new product upd...
