All programs

• You receive 32-bit and 64-bit versions of SoftMaker Office in the same package.
  
• One license for all: You can use one SoftMaker Office license on any combination of up to five computers running Windows, macOS or Linux. SoftMaker Office NX Universal adds five licenses for Android.
  
• Documents are displayed in tabs that you can dock, undock and rearrange – just like in a web browser.
  
• You can now export your documents to PDF/A for long-term archiving.
  
• Spell checking using high-quality commercial dictionaries in 20 languages
  
• Smart guides make aligning objects easy. When you move an object, temporary guides appear automatically whenever you get close to other objects.
  
• The enhanced version control allows you to "travel back in time": Not only can you go back to manually saved states of your document, but you can also revisit an arbitrary number of automatic backups.
  
• In SoftMaker Office for Windows, you can now scan pages and images directly into your documents using TWAIN or WIA.
  

TextMaker

• Powerful new research function: Select a term in your document and look it up in a large variety of online dictionaries and encyclopedias.
  
• Use table styles to give tables a new look at the touch of a button. Choose from a large variety of elegant styles.
  
• The database module has been completely overhauled and now supports SQLite databases in addition to dBASE databases.
  
• Do you use an Excel/PlanMaker file to organize your contacts? If so, that's fine: TextMaker now supports XLSX and PMDX files as data sources for mail merges.
  
• Do you need to control the length of texts you write? TextMaker has had a word and character counter for a long time. With TextMaker, you can add it to the status bar where it displays the values in real time.
  
• The new sidebar lets you conveniently find terms in a document and display thumbnails of the document’s pages.
  
• TextMaker now integrates directly with the citation and reference management software Zotero, making the creation of academic documents easier than ever.
  
• Additional features such as envelope and label printing, macros, mailmerge, cross references and figure captions
  

PlanMaker

• With PlanMaker, you can now create tables – areas in worksheets that can be easily formatted, modified and analyzed. With a simple click, you can choose from a variety of table styles and add a totals row or column just as quickly. Do you want to append new rows or columns with values? No problem, the formulas will adapt automatically.
  
• Redesigned AutoFilter for convenient filtering and sorting. The AutoFilter now supports text, number and date filters as well as hierarchical grouping of similar data.
  
• Numerous predefined cell styles can be quickly chosen from a practical dropdown catalog that shows each style with a preview image.
  
• With the new page break preview, you can easily prepare your PlanMaker worksheets for printing.
  
• Distribute text to cells
  
• A watch window for tracking changes to cell contents
  
• Formula auditing ("detective"), data consolidation and scenarios
  
• New command Insert copied cells that moves existing cells or rows down or to the right to make room for the pasted content
  

Presentations

• With the new presenter view, you can make better presentations: the audience sees your presentation on a monitor or projector, while practical navigation and highlighting tools are available to you on the second monitor.
  
• Create portable slide shows that can be played back on any Windows computer – even if there's no presentation graphics program installed on it.
  
• Insert photo albums and summary slides in your presentations
  
• Illustrate your presentations with elegant charts.
  
• Embedded movies are now played back with modern video codecs in high quality.
  
• You can export presentations as movies.