Thursday, December 12, 2024

OnlyOffice 7.2.1: release of the free office suite for Windows, Linux and macOS

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The free office suite SoloOffice of Latvia has released the latest version 7.2.1 for Windows, Linux and macOS platforms. OnlyOffice focuses on text, spreadsheets and presentations and wants to be an alternative to the well-known open source office suites like LibreOffice and OpenOffice.

The alternative to LibreOffice and OpenOffice

OnlyOffice 7.0 is a modern office suite for creating text, spreadsheets, and presentations without the need for a database application. The software scores particularly well with its open source code and cross-platform support for Windows, Linux, and macOS systems.

OnlyOffice - Word Processor
OnlyOffice – Word processing (Image: OnlyOffice)
OnlyOffice – Spreadsheet
OnlyOffice – Spreadsheet (Image: OnlyOffice)
Only Office Presentation
OnlyOffice – Presentation (Image: OnlyOffice)

The latest version contains numerous bug fixes for the “Document Editor”, “Spreadsheet Editor” and “Presentation Editor” modules as well as the “PDF Viewer”. Also, the silent installation of msi packages on Windows has been improved.

OnlyOffice modules

Major product maintenance for OnlyOffice

According to the official, the three main modules of the office suite and the PDF viewer flowed release notes includes the following optimizations and bug fixes.

document editor
  • Correct numbering in Portuguese or Basque
  • Fix issue with review types when splitting a paragraph
  • Fix issue with paste special button
  • Fix crash when opening docx
  • Fix issue with reading rPrChange property and review those files
  • Fix scrolling in coedit view mode
  • Fix issue when performing global undo
  • Fix issue with setting bold property for text in complex script
  • Set the position of paste special
  • Fix saving a document in Final/Original modes
  • Fix issue with updating the content of a Ref field.
Spreadsheet editor
  • Fix crash when opening xlsx file
  • Fix special paste via hotkeys
Presentation Editor
  • Fix animation issues
  • Fix pptx file opening
PDF viewer
  • Fix search highlight
  • Fix tooltip language for preview

OnlyOffice 7.2.1 Release Notes

Interoperability with Microsoft Office

In addition, the developers want to further improve interoperability with class-leading Microsoft Office, which dominates in the business world in particular, and its XML-based DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX file formats for Word, Excel, and Microsoft Office. PowerPoint and have significantly more compatibility. .

OnlyOffice doesn’t need to shy away from comparisons with other open source office suites.

Comparison of free office suites

Free apps for Android and iOS

In addition to desktop apps, the creators of OnlyOffice offer free office apps for Android, iOS, and iPadOS, which are from the google play store and the Huawei App Gallery just like him app store can be downloaded from Apple.

Paid cloud integration

In the paid version, as a home server for non-commercial use single 139 euros costs and is designed for up to 10 users, users also benefit from partnerships with cloud providers like Nextcloud and ownCloud. As is known from Microsoft 365, services can be started directly from the cloud, files can be shared or edited together.

Since the release of OnlyOffice 7.1, it has also been possible to migrate data from Google Workspaces to the open source software.

Download at Computer Base

As usual, OnlyOffice 7.2.1 can be downloaded directly below this post from the ComputerBase download area.

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  • SoloOffice

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    OnlyOffice is a modern office suite for creating text, spreadsheets, and presentations.

    • desktop version editors 7.2.1 German
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