Our World Cup campaign is officially over now. Thanks to your numerous orders, we have been able to collect € 4215 (around US$ 5300) in donations. This has exceeded our expectations wildly. A heartfelt thank-you to all of you. I have already reported on how we used the first 2000 Euros. Here is now an [...]

Unsere Rabattaktion zur Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft ist abgeschlossen, und dank Ihrer zahlreichen Bestellungen haben wir Spenden in Höhe von € 4215 zusammengetragen. Dies hat unsere Erwartungen weit übertroffen! Vielen Dank dafür. Über die Verwendung der ersten 2000 Euro habe ich in diesem Blog schon berichtet. Hier eine Übersicht über die neuen Spenden: Kick it! Fussball für die [...]

[Click here for English] Unsere Kampagne zur Fußballweltmeisterschaft ist gut gestartet! Dank der Großzügigkeit unserer Kunden konnten wir heute die ersten 2000 Euro an Jugendsportprojekte in aller Welt spenden. Dies sind die Projekte, die wir heute unterstützt haben: AMANDLA – Bildung durch Fußball Boxgirls Berlin – Train hard, Fight easy Girls!unlimited Ein Minifußballfeld für elternlose [...]

Our new Soccer World Cup 2010 campaign got off to a very good start! Thanks to the generosity of our customers, we were able to donate the first 2000 Euros (around USD 2500) to youth sport projects around the world. Here are the projects we supported today: AMANDLA – Football for Development Boxgirls Berlin – [...]

We completely overhauled the charting engine in PlanMaker 2010. Now you can make your own TV- or magazine-quality charts with minimal effort. I’ll simply show you some:

Microsoft Word 2007 by default uses a different file format from its predecessors: DOCX. Our customers have been asking for DOCX import in SoftMaker Office for quite some time. I am happy to announce that TextMaker 2010 comes with excellent support for opening DOCX files. Some customers asked us what took us such a long [...]

The first piece of SoftMaker Office that you get in touch with is usually the Setup program. It guides the user through the installation and makes sure that everything is set up correctly. I have to report one departure and extend one welcome greeting: Our existing Setup program will be officially retired with SoftMaker Office [...]

As we are gearing up for the public beta test of SoftMaker Office 2010 for Windows, it’s time to make this announcement. Anyone purchasing SoftMaker Office 2008 for Windows on or after October 1, 2009 at list price is entitled to a free upgrade to SoftMaker Office 2010 for Windows. This upgrade will be available [...]

You probably won’t find these listed in any brochure from SoftMaker because they are considered “minor improvements” — here are ten useful new mini-features in PlanMaker: AutoFill for numbered lists: Type ’1. then ’2. — you can then use AutoFill so that PlanMaker adds 3., 4., 5. etc. Sheetwide “Hide zero values”: It was already [...]

Sometimes it’s good to step back and think a bit less Euro-centric. Our software has long supported loading and saving text files in the standard character sets: Windows, DOS, Unicode, UTF-8. Good enough? Yes, for a Western European or American user. But if you are from Russia, Ukraine, Japan, China, Korea, or several other countries, [...]