Alternative Office suite which can author different types of files including a word processor, spreadsheets, email and presentations like Microsoft's product.
SoftMaker Office is a powerful full-featured friendly office suite that can replace the Microsoft Office suite.
This software includes a word processor (TextMaker), a spreadsheet editor (PlanMaker), a presentation creator (SoftMaker Presentations) and a script editor (BasicMaker).
This office suite is ideal both for home and for business users, it is compatible (reads and writes) with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint applications, has a fast working speed and a fully customizable interface.
TextMaker, an advanced word processor which includes several predefined document templates, so users can create professional looking business cards, fax documents, letters, memos, phone and fax lists.
It enables paragraph and page formatting, advanced document management, text search and replacing, inserting of images, tables, OLE objects, forms, drawings into documents, list, label, envelope, SmartText, bookmark creation and usage, image rotation and flipping, text alignment and distribution.
This word processor also includes a built-in file manager that can search for a desired file type on local disks, it creates statistics, performs document scanning, printing and exporting (to PDF and several other formats).
TextMaker also can create dBASE databases, generates Table of Contents and Table of Figures, supports comments, scripts, spell checking and tracks changes made to opened documents.
PlanMaker is a powerful spreadsheet application, component of this office suite, which offers complete data management, cell formatting, sorting, filtering, transposing and locking, supports more than 330 built-in arithmetic functions and includes a charting module that displays the cells' content (numbers) in charts.
Users can create and insert form objects, drawings, text, image and chart frames into spreadsheets, encrypt sheets and workbooks, manage formulas, record and run scripts and print selected data ranges.
SoftMaker Presentations is a useful presentation creation application that includes several beautiful design templates, slide layouts, color schemes, enables PowerPoint compatible slide transition effects and allows the usage of multiple slide animation schemes.
Users can sort, arrange, structure and customize each object on the selected slide, re-arrange, duplicate, rename slides and build professional looking presentations.
BasicMaker is a powerful programming environment that lets you control the SoftMaker Office applications by the usage of scripts. This script editor builds, executes, tests your scripts and enables script debugging (finds and fixes errors in scripts).
You can use names, numbers, comments, variables, arrays, operators, define subroutines and functions, call functions in DLLs, launch file operations, define new dialog boxes in your scripts and control applications such as TextMaker or PlanMaker with the help of OLE Automation.
Overall, this office suite includes all you need to write letters, memos, text documents, spreadsheets, presentations for yourself or for business purposes.
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Features of SoftMaker Office
- Database: Sort, filter, group and calculate data, ODF support, password protect.
- EasyPDF: Convert documents to PDF, supports drag-and-drop, batch conversion.
- File formats: ODF, DOCX, PDF, XLSX, PPTX, ODP, OTP, RTF, HTML.
- Font Manager: Preview fonts, print samples, install/uninstall fonts.
- Macro Editor: Create and manage macros, supports VBA, OLE Automation.
- PlanMaker: Advanced functions, customize cells, create charts and diagrams.
- PlanMaker Viewer: View and print spreadsheets, ODF support, export to PDF.
- Presentation: Easy-to-use, animations, ODF support, image manipulation.
- SoftMaker Presentations: Create slideshows, animations, transitions, templates.
- Spell checker: Supports multiple languages, auto-correction and hyphenation.
- Spreadsheet: Powerful calculations, ODF support, automatic charts, macro recorder.
- TextMaker: Create documents, import DOCX and ODT, customize output.
- TextMaker Viewer: View and print documents, ODF support, export to PDF.
- Thunderbird: Synchronize emails, contacts and calendar, supports IMAP, SMTP.
- Word processor: WYSIWYG interface, intuitive styles, advanced tables, ODF support.
Compatibility and License
This download is licensed as shareware for the Windows operating system from office software and can be used as a free trial until the trial period ends (after an unspecified number of days). The SoftMaker Office 2024 Rev S1218.0824 demo is available to all software users as a free download with potential restrictions and is not necessarily the full version of this software.
What version of Windows can SoftMaker Office run on?
SoftMaker Office can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.
Other operating systems: The latest SoftMaker Office version from 2024 is also available for Mac.
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