SoftMaker Office 2021 offers an affordable, fast, and easy-to-use alternative to Microsoft Office. It uses the Microsoft formats, such as docx, xlsx, and pptx, as its default file formats to skip the annoying import and export. It includes TextMaker 2021, PlanMaker 2021, Presentations 2021 and BasicMaker 2021. It supports Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems. Export into Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) directly for quick and easy online distribution or PDF/A for an archive. YOUR NEW WORD PROCESSING SOFTWARE TextMaker is fast, powerful and compatible. Just as a good word processor should be. Microsoft Word .DOCX format is a default file format of TextMaker 2021, so you can open documents and templates created with TextMaker in Microsoft Word directly and vice versa. Any home, academic or business user can create professional looking documents on a fly. Daily correspondence is handled quickly with TextMaker. Practical time-savers such as the built-in address book allows quick creation of letters, mail merges, labels and envelopes. Easily create attractive flyers, invitation cards and posters in no time at all using the sophisticated desktop-publishing functions, such as its unique object mode, intelligent object guides, object frames and master pages. Quickly add footnotes and endnotes, bibliographies, cross references, image captions, as well as indexes, tables of contents and tables of figures. Tremendous design options TextMaker awakens your creativity! You can place graphics, drawings, text frames etc. freely in the document using the unique object mode. You can not only crop images directly in TextMaker 2021, but also liven them up with manifold effects such as soft shadows, mirror effects, 3D rotations or attractive photo frames. Dictionary and Spellchecker The built-in spell checker finds spelling mistakes in more than 75 languages. The ten-language thesaurus helps you find the right words and the automatic hyphenation splits words reliably in 35 languages. TextMaker is team-ready Do you work on a document together with colleagues? TextMaker 2021 tracks all changes which you make to a document. Later, you can either accept or reject these changes, and insert your comments, no matter whether you work with TextMaker or Word. DESIGNING APPEALING WORKSHEETS If you have worked with Microsoft Excel, you'll pick up PlanMaker 2021 immediately. You neither need to re-accustom yourself to new formulas nor to new calculation functions - it is all compatible. It can easily open, view, edit and save .XLS, .XLSX and .XLSM formats, as well as templates in .XLT .XLTX and .XLTM. PlanMaker allows up to one million rows per worksheet. To conquer these huge data sets, you use pivot tables, data consolidation, scenarios, data grouping, AutoFilter and special filters. The new tables inside worksheets can be formatted lightning-fast and allow dynamic adding of data, easy filtering and data analysis. Designing appealing worksheets The new cell-style catalog does that at the touch of a button. With its Excel-style conditional formatting, PlanMaker 2021 automatically finds the highest or lowest values in a data set and highlights them in color or with icons. It can also assign a unique color from a gradient to each value in an area and visualize sizes with data bars. Customize every single aspect of your charts. Create budgets, invoices, receipts, expense reports and export them to PDF to share this important information with the world. Transform plain numbers into informative charts Present your data instantly using one of the eighty different 3D and 2D Charts. Use transparencies, shadows or light effects to adapt them precisely to your taste. 360+ built-in functions are available to perform date and time, mathematical, statistical, technical and financial calculations, and to do data analysis and logic. YOUR NEW PRESENTATION SOFTWARE Presentations 2021 enables users to create high impact, dynamic presentations, multimedia slideshows, project proposals, interactive reports, movies and demonstrations. With this alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint, you can easily open, view and edit presentations (.PPT, .PPS, .PPTX, .PPSX, and .PPSM) as well as template (.POT, .POTX and POTM) files. The new master-page concept supports a creation of comprehensive presentations. You can now create as many master-page layouts as you like and position any number of placeholders in them with just a few clicks. Use impressive animations and slide transitions using OpenGL graphics acceleration, add music, video or spoken comments and illustrate your slides with graphics, tables and charts. The Text Art enables you to create jazzy slogans, and AutoShapes underlines the important items graphically. Native PDF export Convert any presentation into an Adobe PDF file as slides, handouts, notes pages, or an outline view. The native PDF export function allows you to specify how many slides per page, color or grayscale and more that can be exported to PDF. Easily control PDF preferences, layout, permissions and encryption. Double-screen support The speaker can run the presentation on two monitors at the same time. One is for the speaker and the other for the audience, this way the audience will not see what is happening on the primary display. Support for virtual pen and highlighter, and a looped presentation in kiosks is available as well. Export presentation to video or HTML If you want to distribute your presentation to users who do not have SoftMaker Office, export it into movie (video format .AVI or .WMV) or into .HTML. YOUR NEW AUTOMATION SOFTWARE BasicMaker 2021 is easy to use development environment for Windows, which allow you to create, debug and run scripts, for automated processing on your documents and spreadsheets. Scripts created in BasicMaker can be run directly in TextMaker and PlanMaker, or other VBA-compatible programs. Included graphical dialog editor can create dialog boxes which allow users to interact with their scripts and more.