IBM Lotus Symphony 3.0

IBM Lotus Symphony 3.0 is regarded as a convenient as well as simple to use set of productivity tools that are intuitive and easy to use and provided at no charge. There are three applications that make up Lotus Symphony: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, Lotus Symphony Presentations.

Lotus Symphony puts you in charge – take control over spiraling upgrade costs, ensure access to documents well into the future with new standard file formats (ODF), get more from your current investments with support for Microsoft Windows and Office file types.

Major Features:

1. Easy to create documents with predefined document templates.
2. Fast formatting with predefined styles for paragraphs, characters, and headings.
3. Contextual toolbars and editing menus.
4. Inline spell checking and correction.
5. Graphics that you can insert to create a variety of tables, charts, diagrams, and drawn items.
6. Automatic creation of a table of contents, footnotes, indexes and footers and headers.
7. Support for a variety of file types, including Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite.
8. Export documents to Adobe PDF for easy sharing.

Enhancements:

• New Features
• • VBA scripts support
  • ODF 1.2 standard support
  • Office 2007 OLE support
  • Brand new sidebars containing enriched property sections and panels across different editors, with support of sidebar panel management to show or hide sidebar panels
  • Ability to customize toolbar content and layout
  • Ability to create new business cards and labels
  • Ability to insert OLE, audio and video files
  • Master document support
  • Support of Live Text
  • Enabled file encryption and password protection with Microsoft Word and Excel files
  • Support for "Open in new window". Users can use Command+~ on Mac OS and Alt + Tab on XP/Vista to switch windows
  • New clip art gallery
  • More template files
  • Support of VML images in OOXML files
  • Support of more parameters for protecting spreadsheet files and sheets in VBA API
  • Support of separate downloads of spell check dictionary addons for 22 languages for Windows OS users
  • Support of same build re-installation in silent mode on Windows
  • Support of online check of new product updates
• Better graphic object rendering through improved anti-aliasing
• Refined main menu and toolbar design for better usability and consistency across editors
• Ability to open a file by dragging and dropping it to a tab or empty workbench
• Better usability during the operation of dragging graphic objects
• Enhanced the usability in manipulating color property with new color picker controls
• Enabled new progress bar to launch and load/save files
• Enabled memorizing user file paths when inserting objects into file
• Added one click link to LotusLive website on homepage
• Improved accessibility support for graphic objects in files and help
• Various additional user experience enhancements
• Significant enhancement in online help content and structure