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SoftMaker Office
Original author(s) SoftMaker
Initial release 1994; 24 years ago (1994)
Stable release
SoftMaker Office 2018 for Windows
SoftMaker Office 2018 for Mac
SoftMaker Office 2018 for Linux
FreeOffice 2016 for Windows and Linux
Operating system Microsoft Windows, Linux, Android, Pocket PCs, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Qtopia
License Proprietary (commercial or freeware/registerware)
Website www.softmaker.com
www.freeoffice.com

SoftMaker Office is an office suite developed since 1987 by the German company SoftMaker Software GmbH, Nuremberg.

SoftMaker Office 2006 and 2008, previously available for purchase, were later released as freeware, and later still superseded by SoftMaker FreeOffice.

SoftMaker Office includes:

The package SoftMaker Office Professional additionally includes:

SoftMaker Office has many functions of office suites such as MS Office, LibreOffice, Apache OpenOffice or WordPerfect Office, and can also run from USB flash drives and supports integrated reference works. It has its own native formats, and can read and write file formats of Microsoft Office, OpenDocument format (word processor only), RTF and HTML. It can export to PDF. Multi-language spell-checking, hyphenation and thesaurus is supported, and it has an integrated five-language translation dictionary (English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish).

The user interface is similar to Microsoft Office's.


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