SoftMaker Office is a suite of office programs designed to be an alternative to Microsoft Office. The package comes with applications for creating documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. It can also be used to send emails and organize tasks and appointments.
Soft Maker Office is explicitly designed to be an alternative to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint programs with support for many of the same formats and industry standard functionalities.
About the SoftMaker Office suite
If you are looking for a cheaper alternative to Microsoft Office, SoftMaker Office is a good choice, however free alternatives like OpenOffice or LibreOffice may be better suited to your needs.
SoftMaker Office 2018 is the latest version of the office suite from German developer SoftMaker Software. It comes in two versions; Standard and Professional.
The standard version includes a word processor (TextMaker), a spreadsheet (PlanMaker) and presentation programs (Presentations).
As well you get an improved version of the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. The Professional suite includes everything Standard has to offer plus four Berlitz dictionaries.
Of the applications included in the Office application suite we can find:
TextMaker is the Word version of SoftMaker, as it supports DOC and DOCX documents and provides many of the traditional styles and formatting options such as fonts, text indents, table insertion, and the formatting brush.
PlanMaker, which is the replacement for Excel, supports XLS and XLSX files and can handle large data sets in a spreadsheet environment.
Presentations is the PowerPoint presentation from the SoftMaker suite of applications. It supports both PPT and PPTX files and gives you many of the same features, such as graphics and audio insertion and slide transitions.
BasicMaker is a simple program that provides a programming environment that allows you to control Windows programs VBA compliant such as TextMaker and PlanMaker using SoftMaker Basic scripts.
And finally, Mozilla Thunderbird application allows you to manage your email and organize your tasks and appointments.
SoftMaker Office has many features from office suites such as Microsoft Office, LibreOffice or WordPerfect Office, and it can also be run from a USB memory stick and supports built-in reference jobs.
It has its own native formats, and can read and write Microsoft Office, OpenDocument (word processor only), RTF, and HTML file formats. You can export to PDF.
Free SoftMaker for educational environments
As part of his Nuremberg party education initiative SoftMaker offers its office suite of the same name in version for Linux and Windows to liberate schools and colleges. The company had already established such a program with the previous package.
Softmaker Office 2018 you will receive all schools, universities and faculty for free. Depending on the provider, educational institutions can use the campus license in teaching and administration.
The Teachers are also entitled to obtain a free license for private use.
In the case of students and students who are interested in this, they also benefit from the campaign: for group orders of at least 10 students or students, they receive the package for private use for a processing fee of around € 10 per license.
The office pack generally costs a little less than 70 euros.
Included in the package the text editor Text Maker 2018, spreadsheet Plan Maker 2018 and presentation software Presentations 2018Besides, the package comes with a custom version of the Thunderbird mail client.
For those interested in obtaining this benefit of the free or reduced version of Softmaker Office 2018, you can request the parties interested in the promotion directly on the provider's website.
You should also know that the suite earlier this year launched the support of its products for Linux, so this is a multiplatform office suite that can be used for any operating system in educational environments.