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IBM Lotus Symphony Changelog

What's new in IBM Lotus Symphony 1.3

Sep 3, 2009
  • Functional enhancements:
  • Enabled Microsoft® Office 2007 files import support.
  • Significant enhancements in DataPilot in spreadsheets, including show/hide field items panel, drill down to details, DataPilot cache support, and default styles.
  • Numbering enhancement in documents to improve interoperability with Microsoft Word.
  • Enabled Microsoft Office and IBM Lotus SmartSuite® password protection support for spreadsheets.
  • Enabled network URI access and hyperlink support that allows you to create network connection hyperlinks for URI protocols including FTP, MailTo, and SMB.
  • Enabled envelope support which allows you to create an envelope, set envelope properties, and set printing options.
  • Enabled Widgets Catalog server support.
  • Improved print performance.
  • Enabled Sumproduct's ForceArray formula support in spreadsheets.
  • Significant start-up performance improvement on Mac OS X.
  • Usability enhancements:
  • In presentations, page layout is more visible by locating the Properties sidebar in the right panel.
  • Provided better animation effects interoperability with Microsoft PowerPoint on font-relative effects, fade-exit effects, and multiple motion paths; and enabled the animation play at automatic page transitions.
  • Provided an automatic cursor in presentation screen shows as a default option.
  • Presentation pages can be deleted continuously without any prompt.
  • Provided new graphic bullets and clip art.
  • Provided enhanced color pallette in color picker.
  • Enhancements in live text.
  • Enabled support that allows you to open a file by dragging and dropping a file to the home page or the New.
  • A continuous improvement in mail merge in documents.
  • Default font is changed to Arial in presentations and documents.
  • Enlarged the pull-down list length upper limit to 20 items to make more options visible.
  • Enabled Ctrl+left Shift and Ctrl+right Shift hotkey support to switch BIDI layout.
  • Enhanced toolbar and main menu usability.
  • Programmability enhancements:
  • Provided rich Lotus Symphony document model APIs for Spreadsheets and Documents.
  • Online help enhancements:
  • Enhanced help content for spreadsheets, common, and preferences topics.
  • Web site:
  • Added drag-to-install function in the Plug-ins section.
  • Added support for multiple downloads and enabled Atom feeds for clip art and templates in the Gallery section.
  • Expanded search function for the Forum.
  • Rotated announcements on the Home page.