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SoftMaker unveils SoftMaker Office 2016 suite ahead of Microsoft Office launch

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SoftMaker Office 2016 for Windows runs with lightning-fast speed, offers a huge range of features and is compatible with all versions of Microsoft Office and Windows

15th July 2015, London - SoftMaker has launched its SoftMaker Office 2016 for Windows suite ahead of Microsoft's anticipated autumn launch of Office 2016.

Available now in the UK, the newly updated SoftMaker Office 2016 is seen as the alternative to Microsoft Office, boasting 400 improvements over the previous version, SoftMaker Office 2012. It offers high-speed operations, advanced features and compatibility across all versions of Windows.

Martin Kotulla, Managing Director of SoftMaker, commented: "After a well-received launch in Germany, we're excited to be launching SoftMaker Office 2016 to the UK market. SoftMaker Office 2016 provides UK consumers and corporate users with the only viable alternative to Microsoft Office. People have many gripes with Microsoft Office, and what SoftMaker Office 2016 provides users with is a lightning-fast, highly reliable office suite that is seamlessly compatible with Microsoft Office and many more file formats."

Key highlights of the new version include:

1. Full compatibility with Microsoft Office: SoftMaker has redesigned the file filters, optimising quality and speed. This provides the highest compatibility possible with both current and older generations of Microsoft Office - both in the modern XML formats DOCX, XLSX and PPTX as well as the older binary formats DOC, XLS and PPT. SoftMaker Office now opens many Microsoft Office files much faster than Microsoft Office and can even edit some older Microsoft files which Microsoft Office 2013 is unable to open.

2. Lightning fast even on slower machines: SoftMaker Office 2016 for Windows needs little storage space and is by far the fastest Office suite, making it an ideal choice especially for slower laptops and Windows 8 tablets.


3. Portability: SoftMaker Office 2016 for Windows can be installed on USB sticks. This lets you take your personal office with you, wherever you go. Just plug and play.


4. Administrative ease: SoftMaker Office 2016 for Windows can be installed in corporate networks automatically via GPO and SCCM, allowing easy deployment across large installations.

5. Powerful: The new version of the PlanMaker spreadsheet program supports up to a million rows, letting users analyse data with pivot tables, scenarios and data consolidation. It offers conditional formatting with the same functionality as Excel 2016.


6. Unique: TextMaker is a word processor with unique desktop-publishing features. These include master pages, an object mode that separates the text editing from the graphics layer, real-time preview of formatting and text wrapping to produce professional and finished documents.

7. New PDF and EPUB export: Users can now create high-quality PDF files (including PDF tags, comments and bookmarks), and e-books in the ePub format directly from SoftMaker Office.


8. Productive: SoftMaker Office 2016 for Windows includes customised versions of Mozilla's Thunderbird (email client) and Lightning (calendar software). This email client comes with practical, productivity-enhancing functions such as lightning-fast email moving and navigation in the folder structure. Thenew Thunderbird 38 included in SoftMaker Office 2016 offers important functional improvements, such as being able to store email folders in Maildir format, allowing users to circumvent the 4-gigabyte limit per folder. Gmail users will also be pleased to see that they no longer need to reduce Google's security levels to access Gmail from Thunderbird, thanks to built-in native OAuth2 authentication in Thunderbird 38.

9. Completely Customisable: Numerous improvements have been made to SoftMaker's presentation programme - Presentations. The table function has been completely redesigned, a new full-screen mode added, and the software comes complete with sophisticated charting capabilities.

SoftMaker Office Standard 2016 is available now for £50.15 and includes:

  • Office tools TextMaker 2016, PlanMaker 2016 and Presentations 2016
  • Customised Thunderbird email client and calendar tool with SoftMaker enhancements
  • Three licenses for home and business use included in the box
  • Full compatibility with all versions of Windows

SoftMaker Office Professional 2016 is available for £64.50 (update cost: £43) and adds high-quality Berlitz Translation Dictionaries for English, German, French, Italian and Spanish

More information about SoftMaker Office 2016 can be found here.

About SoftMaker

Founded in 1987, SoftMaker is a leading software company, specialising in developing office software. The "flagship" product, SoftMaker Office, is available for a wide range of operating systems: Windows, Linux, Google Android, Windows Mobile and Windows CE. Key features of the software are: intuition and ease of use, high compatibility with the Microsoft Office file formats, and speed. High-quality computer fonts are the second pillar of SoftMaker's business. With the product lines MegaFont XXL and infiniType, home users and professional designers alike have affordable access to a first-class font collection.

www.softmaker.com