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GFYI [Official] SoftMaker Office Standard 2021 Halloween 2020 Giveaway
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We at Geeks For Your Information are very pleased to announce our 
SoftMaker Office Standard 2021  Halloween 2020 Giveaway!
 
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We would like to thank SoftMaker 
for sponsoring us the giveaway prizes
 
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The NEW SoftMaker Office 2021 lets both beginners and experienced users swiftly achieve attractive results. The new document templates enable the effortless creation of attractive documents, while convenient functions such as automatic fold marks for letters and new DTP and drawing functions ensure professional and highly functional designs. The integrated database module for printing mail merges has been completely redesigned and now manages SQLite, XLSX, PMDX, dBASE and CSV files.

Many new features are also available when creating complex documents: The compatibility of footnotes and endnotes was increased and the functionality of tables of contents was extended. Cross references also offer numerous new referencing options within documents.

 
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Previously in SoftMaker Office 2018 was made available for Windows, Mac and Linux, (in separate packages per operating system). The 2021 version, SoftMaker has made its licensing policy far more generous! A single purchase of SoftMaker Office 2021 will now entitle the user to install it on Windows, macOS, and Linux – on up to five (5) computers in total!


The NEW SoftMaker Office 2021 is a straight-to-the-point, no-bloat office suite that offers "out-of-the-box all-out integration" of MS Office, eliminating the annoying issues of the most common software. It is very much pretty simple to use and highly customizable. User-friendly and stylish and yet the ease-of-use is there for all! The ability to use macro commands and automation tools through an overly simplified menu that gives access to simple and more complicated features is and can cater to anyone who has a flare to have their own way with the software application. 

This is the most flexible complete suite that the user can alter or set to his preference!  SoftMaker Office 2021 won't make the user feel out of his league. It will rather make you feel that the user has used it before! The customization features will make you adapt it to how he uses any office suite and most of all it edits Microsoft Office documents as true to the original as Microsoft Office itself.

SoftMaker Office 2021, currently contains TextMaker 2021 (Word processor), PlanMaker 2021 (Spreadsheets), Presentations 2021 (Presentations), BasicMaker (macros), is the straight-to-the-point, no-bloatware suite that offers MS Office integration out of the box!

 
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TextMaker 2021 (Word processor)

New research features have been added to the word processing program TextMaker 2021 which greatly simplify the creation of extensive scientific work. The literature management program "Zotero" is now integrated directly into the program and thus provides powerful support in terms of managing citations, bibliographies and literature sources. SoftMaker Office's research functions have also been significantly expanded elsewhere. It is now possible to search countless online dictionaries and other reference books in a wide variety of languages with just one click by means of a customizable dropdown element.

The previous versions of TextMaker 2021 already offered a unique mechanism for orientation within complex documents in the form of the "Navigator" in the sidebar. The 2021 version goes one step further! The new sidebar view with page thumbnails of the document pages assists the user when navigating documents with lots of pictures, while the new sidebar search facilitates navigating between different search results. All sidebar functions can now be arranged as desired in two sidebars.

However, SoftMaker Office 2021 not only improves navigation within a document, but also between different versions of a document: The improved version control allows users to maintain a freely selectable number of automatic backups and to return to them if necessary.

 
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Features:

Files and printing
 
  • Documents can be exchanged between any version of TextMaker on any operating system with no loss of fidelity.
  • Open and save DOCX and DOC files from Microsoft Word 6.0 to 2019 faithfully to the original, including password-protected files
  • Open and save OpenDocument files (compatible with OpenOffice and LibreOffice)
  • Open and save documents in RTF, HTML, Pocket Word, ASCII and Unicode formats
  • Open WordPerfect documents (.wpd) [WINDOWS]
  • Assistant for importing and exporting text files
  • Create PDF files and PDF forms directly in TextMaker
  • NEW: Create archival PDFs in PDF/A format for long-term preservation of documents
  • Tagged PDFs and bookmarks in PDF files
  • Export to the e-book format EPUB [SOFTMAKER OFFICE PROFESSIONAL AND NX UNIVERSAL]
  • Print 2, 4, 8 or 16 pages on one sheet of paper [WINDOWS]
  • Send documents in a freely selectable format (e.g. DOCX, DOC or PDF) by e-mail

Editing and formatting
 
  • NEW: Create attractive documents based on the new document templates
  • Insert fields, such as date/time, page number, author, consecutive numbers, etc.
  • SmartText: for example, type "asap" and "as soon as possible" appears immediately
  • Real-time word and keystroke counter in the status bar
  • Calculations in text and tables
  • Borders, shadings, fill patterns, drop caps, paragraph control
  • NEW: Automatically add fold marks to your pages to make sure you fold them right for an envelope.
  • Hidden and protected text
  • Paragraph and character styles
  • Real-time preview of formatting changes
  • Stylesheet manager: Manage styles and transfer them between documents
  • Transfer formatting with the format painter
  • Automatic numbering of lines, paragraphs, lists and headings
  • True master pages, not just simple headers and footers

Functions for complex documents
 
  • NEW: Integrates directly with the citation and reference management software Zotero, making the creation of academic documents easier than ever.
  • Outline view for structuring documents
  • NEW: Two customizable sidebars
  • NEW: Sidebar search for conveniently browsing search results
  • NEW: Page thumbnails in the sidebar allow for better navigation in large documents.
  • Track changes tracks all changes made to documents and enables you to accept/reject them later.
  • Comments are shown as balloons in the right-hand margin of your pages
  • Cross references, footnotes, endnotes, indices, tables of contents, bibliographies
  • NEW: Use footnotes and endnotes in the same document
  • NEW: Use endnotes that span multiple pages
  • NEW: Improved cross references to headings
  • NEW: Clickable entries in the table of contents
  • Image captions and tables of figures
  • Create and fill forms with input fields, checkboxes, dropdown lists, calculations, etc.
 




 
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PlanMaker 2021 (Spreadsheet)

In PlanMaker 2021, the new page break preview provides a feature that greatly simplifies the printing of spreadsheets. Using drag & drop, the user can define how tables are arranged on the pages of the printout. The package of new features is rounded off by new pivot table functions, an improved real-time calculation function in the status bar and numerous new calculation functions.

 
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Features:

Comprehensive calculation capabilities
 
  • NEW: More than 430 calculation functions
  • Worksheets with 1 million rows and 16,384 columns
  • Calculation with complex numbers and array functions
  • Numbers can be formatted as currency units, with fixed decimal places and thousands separators, as percentages or fractions, as dates and times etc.
  • Perpetual time format (20:00 + 5:00 is not 1:00 but 25:00) which also allows negative times
  • AutoSum, AutoProduct etc.
  • AutoFill: intelligent filling of cell areas with values and rows of values
  • External references (calculations that access data in other files)
  • NEW: Real-time calculation in the status bar, now displaying multiple values

Analyzing data
 
  • With pivot tables you can display data in a targeted way according to your individual specifications, summarize them, sort them into categories, compare and evaluate them.
  • NEW: Group items in pivot tables
  • Goal seeker
  • Scenarios
  • Create database ranges within worksheets
  • Data grouping (outline view)
  • Sort by up to 64 columns
  • Transpose cell ranges
  • AutoFilter and special filters
  • Database functions for totals, averages, variance etc.
  • Tables – designated areas of the worksheet that can be quickly formatted, modified and analyzed

Presenting and visualizing data
 
  • Powerful Excel-compatible chart module for impressive charts
  • Insert more than 80 different types of charts, e.g. bar charts, histograms and pie charts
  • Each chart element can be individually formatted with any fill pattern or color gradient desired.
  • Impressive effects for charts: soft shadows, beveled edges, transparency, light sources etc.
  • Charts can be rotated in 3D space.
 




 
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Presentations 2021 (Presentations)

One particular  highlight of Presentations 2021 is the creation of portable slide shows.  Such presentations, including all animations, slide transitions, media objects, etc., can be stored on a portable storage device such as a USB stick and can then be played on any PC, even if no presentation program is installed on it.

All included applications natively use the Microsoft file formats, DOCX, XLSX and PPTX. This ensures the smooth exchange of documents with Microsoft Office users. Numerous export formats are also available, and the standardized PDF/A format has been added to the PDF export of SoftMaker Office 2021 for long-term archiving of documents.
 
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Features:

Design
 
  • NEW: Numerous attractive design templates do the design work for you.
  • Each template comes with an array of matching color schemes
  • Design your own color schemes and switch between them at the press of a button
  • Slide layouts for flexible slide design
  • Universal placeholders that can be filled with text, graphics, tables, videos or sounds as required
  • Sophisticated slide master concept (compatible with PowerPoint 2007-2019)
  • Real-time preview of formatting changes
  • Numerous graphical bullets included

Graphics and drawings
 
  • Comprehensive drawing and image functions: Draw and design directly in your document with PowerPoint-compatible AutoShapes
  • NEW: Convert AutoShapes to curves
  • NEW: Create sophisticated designs by combining multiple AutoShapes into one
  • Insert images in a range of file formats
  • NEW: Design attractive documents using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files
  • Powerful graphics functions such as mirror effects, soft shadows and transparencies
  • Images can be cropped directly in the document
  • Change brightness, contrast and gamma of images directly in Presentations
  • Fill drawings with colors, patterns, images and gradients
  • Photo frames
  • Contour wrap
  • Connector lines between objects
  • Large symbols library for flowcharts and org charts
  • TextArt feature for type effects
  • Insert more than 80 different types of charts, e.g. bar charts, histograms and pie charts
  • Use smart guides for the fast, precise alignment of objects with one another.

Multimedia
 
  • Easily insert and play movie and sound files [WINDOWS, MAC]
  • Automatic or action-triggered playing (click or mouse-over) of multimedia files [WINDOWS, MAC]
  • Play sounds across slides [WINDOWS, MAC]
  • Insert image collections
  • NEW: Media ribbon tab to manage movie or sound objects

Animations and slide transitions
 
  • Hundreds of different object and text animations available
  • Ready-made animation schemes for animating entire presentations at once
  • Numerous breathtaking animations and slide transitions based on OpenGL
  • NEW: Transitions from current versions of Microsoft PowerPoint added
  • NEW: Many transitions are now seamlessly compatible to Microsoft PowerPoint.
 



The NEW SoftMaker Office 2021 is available as a purchase or subscription version. 

The SoftMaker Office 2021 purchased versions are: (1) SoftMaker Office Standard 2021, and (2) SoftMaker Office Professional 2021

While the subscription based SoftMaker Office 2021 are: (1) SoftMaker Office NX Home, and (2) SoftMaker Office NX Universal

A free 30-day trial can be downloaded from the SoftMaker website at www.softmaker.com

 




SoftMaker Office 2021 Standard (purchased version) comes with a perpetual license. 



Scope of license
 
  • Non-commercial use: You and the members of your family are entitled to using one license on up to five computers (running any combination of Windows, macOS or Linux) at the same time, as long as these computers belong to the same household.


  • Commercial use: Each license may be installed and used on one computer (running Windows, macOS or Linux). Every user of that computer may use the software, but only 1 (one) user at any given time. Secondary use right: The single primary user of that computer is additionally entitled to use the software on a portable computer.













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Latest version is SoftMaker Office 2021 revision 1022 (2020-11-11)
 
What's new in SoftMaker Office 2021?

All applications
 
  • Powerful new research function: Select any term in your document and look it up in a large variety of online dictionaries and encyclopedias.
  • Export your documents to PDF/A for long-term preservation.
  • The enhanced version control allows you to "travel back in time": You can not only go back to manually saved states of your document, but also revisit an arbitrary number of automatic backups.
  • The dialog box for creating new documents now presents all document templates with attractive preview images.
  • You can now convert AutoShape objects to curves. This gives you amazing new design possibilities.
  • Create sophisticated designs by combining multiple AutoShape objects into one.
  • Create attractive documents using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files.
  • The improved user interface for object sizing enables you to arrange pictures, drawings, text frames and other objects more conveniently.
  • The automatic hyphenation with improved hyphenation results lets you write better texts.
  • The automatic hyphenation now supports additional languages.
  • New licensing model: You can use one license of SoftMaker Office 2021 on any combination of up to five computers running Windows, macOS or Linux.

What's New in TextMaker 2021
 
  • For German spell checking and grammar checking, the latest version of Duden Korrektor has been added. [SOFTMAKER OFFICE PROFESSIONAL AND NX UNIVERSAL].
  • The new text-style analysis checks German texts and gives suggestions for improvement and rewording. [SOFTMAKER OFFICE NX UNIVERSAL]
  • TextMaker now integrates directly with the citation and reference management software Zotero, making the creation of academic documents easier than ever. [SOFTMAKER OFFICE PROFESSIONAL AND NX UNIVERSAL]
  • Automatically add fold marks to your pages to make sure you fold them right for an envelope.
  • Many new included document templates make creating attractive documents easier.
  • Enhance your productivity with two customizable sidebars.
  • Search your documents using the new sidebar and conveniently browse through the search results.
  • Page thumbnails in the sidebar allow for better navigation in large documents.

What's New in PlanMaker 2021
 
  • With the new page break preview, you can easily prepare your worksheets for printing.
  • Pivot tables now support grouping data items.
  • New calculation functions have been added, all compatible to current versions of Microsoft Excel.
  • You can now display multiple real-time calculations simultaneously in the status bar.
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  • Presentations
  • Create portable slide shows that can be played back on any Windows computer – even if there's no presentation graphics program installed.
  • New transitions enable you to create breathtaking slide shows.

What's New in Presentations 2021
 
  • Create portable slide shows that can be played back on any Windows computer – even if there's no presentation graphics program installed.
  • New transitions enable you to create breathtaking slide shows.
  • Many transitions are now seamlessly compatible to Microsoft PowerPoint.
  • With the new Media ribbon tab, you can manage your movie or sound objects more quickly.
  • The new 16:9 design templates let you create attractive slide shows with just a few clicks.
 




 
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SoftMaker Office Standard 2021 prizes for this giveaway/contest
SoftMaker has provided Geeks For Your Information Forum five (5) licenses of SoftMaker Office Standard 2021 as contest prizes




 
CONTEST RULES

To boost forum participation/contribution, all who wish to participate MUST have created a minimum of 1 thread and 3 posts (threads in sections: (i) Giveaways / Contests (ii) Deals and (iii) Geeks FYI > Feedback are NOT INCLUDED). Entries not meeting the requirement will be deleted. WE WILL BE CHECKING!

1. Please answer the question below.

"Share feedback to SoftMaker (can be of SoftMaker 2021 product application features, customer support, or site content, etc.) and why do you want to win a SoftMaker Office Standard 2021 license?"

Post your reply as contest entry WITH your social media share.  Please see sample entry below.

 
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2. REQUIRED: Please share this giveaway by pasting the code below in your Facebook/Twitter/Google+ Account.  

NOTE: Sponsor requires the "Facebook Share" for your entry to be qualified. So all entries (to be considered as valid entry) has to have a Facebook Share

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3. One entry per IP address ONLY. WE WILL BE CHECKING!

Only one entry per member is allowed. Dual entries will both be deleted and user will be banned from giveaway so please be careful.

If there are any questions / concerns pertaining to the giveaway/contest please get in touch with me through PM. Do not post it in this thread. Doing so will merit a warning and ultimately be banned from entering further giveaway/contests.






 
WINNERS WILL RECEIVE
 
Five (5) winners will each receive one (1) license of SoftMaker Office Standard 2021
 
Winners will be selected by SoftMaker Representative
 
Upon winner announcement, all winners will only have 5 days to send a PM to claim their prize.
 
Please include your details (Name / Email) in your PM claim.
 
 
 
NO CONFIRMATION FOR THOSE WITH INSUFFICIENT/INCOMPLETE DETAILS.
 
Prize will be FORFEIT if a PM claim is not received within the specified timeframe.
 
Prize will be FORFEIT if a PM claim is "not confirmed".
 
The Giveaway will run from 
October 24, 2020 to November 25, 2020
 
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GIVEAWAY / CONTEST IS OPEN!
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#3
"Share feedback to SoftMaker (can be of SoftMaker 2021 product application features, customer support, or site content, etc.) and why do you want to win a SoftMaker Office Standard 2021 license?"

I'd like SoftMaker to have the capability to catch the color of a given hue or an HTML color picker so it'll be easier for the user to get the same hue / color when working in Presentations. A of the moment I use a 3rd party portable app (Just Color Picker 5) for it when I use SoftMaker Free - Presentations. I'd like to have a full-featured license by way of this contest. SoftMaker 2021 Standard is way above the free version which I use when my MS Office 2013 goes wild. Thanks SoftMaker!


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  • jasonX
#4
Thank you JasonX and Softmaker for organizing this giveaway! 
Softmaker Office is known to be the most compatible with Microsoft Office documents and the best alternative for Microsoft Office with being user friendly and easy to use. I have used the free version and its great. I would like to use pro version for even more capabilities! 
My feedback for Softmaker is to  improve support for .rtf format. Its a popular document format but its one of the weakness of the software so I hope there is improvement on this! 

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  • jasonX
#5
"Share feedback to SoftMaker (can be of SoftMaker 2021 product application features, customer support, or site content, etc.) and why do you want to win a SoftMaker Office Standard 2021 license?"

I have been using SoftMaker Office for a long time and this office Suite is a worthy replacement for the well-known Microsoft Office. I tested SoftMaker Office 2021 and the program made a good impression, quickly starts and works .
The user interface in General does not stand out among programs of this type,but it has a convenient function of changing the ribbon interface to the classic one, everything is clear and convenient.
In the new version, I like the large number of new built-in document templates, which simplifies the design of documents.
Two customizable sidebars help you improve your work speed.
The new sidebar makes it easier to search through documents and view search results.
I want to win a SoftMaker Office Standard 2021 license to work with documents more efficiently and quickly and take full advantage of the new office Suite.
Thanks for this opportunity! Thank you SoftMaker!

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#6
"Share feedback to SoftMaker (can be of SoftMaker 2021 product application features, customer support, or site content, etc.) and why do you want to win a SoftMaker Office Standard 2021 license?"
The best thing about SoftMaker Office / Free Office is that getting started with it is very easy. After shifting from Windows to Linux, because of SoftMaker Office, it didn't make me feel difficult to work with presentations and word documents. I want to win this license to have the full features of SoftMaker Office so that using Linux I would no more feel the need of Microsoft Office again and thanks to the licensing policy, my whole family can enjoy the benefits of this suite.

Thanks jasonX and SoftMaker team Heart

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#7
"Share feedback to SoftMaker (can be of SoftMaker 2021 product application features, customer support, or site content, etc.) and why do you want to win a SoftMaker Office Standard 2021 license?"
I have used SoftMaker office before and I am really impressed with the modern interface and ease of use. Its functions are clearly laid out which make it a worthy competitor to other office suites. I also like that it is a more economical package than MS Office.

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  • jasonX
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Thanks a lot for this nice exclusive giveaway, jasonX
The best answer to the giveaway question will be: i want to win this license because I am already a fan and customer of SoftMaker but for Office 2018. I know from the review made by jasonX that the 2021 version has brought interesting new features for the users and I would like an upgrade to test the new functionalities. Although i have the old Premium version even this Standard version is also good.
My share is below:
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I followed them on social media and i am following their newsletter also.
Thanks,
software enthusiast!
[-] The following 1 user says Thank You to dinosaur07 for this post:
  • jasonX
#9
Great thanks for this great opportunity to win such a great license!
I just finished browsing softmaker.com website and found out that they produce also a great pdf editor alongside this fancy Office product. I need a license for this suite in order to be able to share spreadsheets of my work with my remote colleagues. I like the integration they provide with my email in order to be more productive. A good fact is that this product can edit .docx and .xlsx files.
I hope i win it because i like it.

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#10
GIVEAWAY / CONTEST HAS ENDED. 

Stay tuned for the winner announcement.
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