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<li> All panels can be managed on the new sidebar:</li> | <li> All panels can be managed on the new sidebar:</li> | ||
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− | <p align="left"> There are many floating and docking panels in Lotus Symphony, such as the Properties, Style list, Clip Art, Navigator, Slide template, and DataPilot panels. Lotus Symphony manages all floating and docking panels in a sidebar. This is a bar which contain icons. Users can access the panels by clicking these icons. </p> | + | <blockquote> |
+ | <p align="left"> There are many floating and docking panels in Lotus Symphony, such as the Properties, Style list, Clip Art, Navigator, Slide template, and DataPilot panels. Lotus Symphony manages all floating and docking panels in a sidebar. This is a bar which contain icons. Users can access the panels by clicking these icons. </p> | ||
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− | + | The status of the panels can be managed, including initialization, status preservation, and context switching. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
− | <li | + | <li>Users can perform actions on the sidebar such as: switching panels, dragging panels to dock them in other spaces, or floating the panels. |
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</li> | </li> | ||
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<p align="left"> <strong>Properties panel:</strong></p> | <p align="left"> <strong>Properties panel:</strong></p> | ||
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− | + | The new Properties panel consists of the object property groups frequently used in IBM Lotus Symphony . You are able to set properties for the selected objects<strong>, </strong>such as text, page, or graphics, easily with Properties panel. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
− | <li | + | <li>The Properties panel is divided into several sections. Each section is a group of properties for an object. The availability of the property sections in Properties panel is context sensitive. The sections and functions available depends on what object is selected. |
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</li> | </li> | ||
</ul> | </ul> | ||
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<p align="left"> To learn more about the new sidebar, watch this video for more details: <a href="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lswiki.nsf/dx/Video_The_Sidebar_in_Lotus_Symphony_3_Your_Key_to_Text_Layout_and_More">Symphony Sidebar Video</a></p> | <p align="left"> To learn more about the new sidebar, watch this video for more details: <a href="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lswiki.nsf/dx/Video_The_Sidebar_in_Lotus_Symphony_3_Your_Key_to_Text_Layout_and_More">Symphony Sidebar Video</a></p> | ||
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− | + | In presentations, users can switch to different views easily and quickly by using<strong> </strong>the tab bar and clicking the buttons below the editing area, for example, users can click <strong>Normal</strong>, <strong>Outline</strong>, <strong>Slide Sorter</strong> or <strong>Notes</strong> to switch the view. Users can also switch between the <strong>Normal View</strong> and <strong>Master View</strong> by clicking. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
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− | + | In presentations, users can easily tell which view is selected by the tab bar. The selected view tab is highlighted and underlined. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
− | + | In spreadsheets, when users click the sheet name on the tab bar, the sheet name tab is also highlighted and underlined. | |
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<li> The tab bar color has a higher contrast that provides a better look and feel. </li> | <li> The tab bar color has a higher contrast that provides a better look and feel. </li> | ||
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− | + | When the slide is selected, a rounded rectangle displays around it with a shadow to indicate that the slide is selected. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
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− | + | When users hover over a<strong> </strong>slide, a rounded rectangle displays around the slide without a shadow to highlight it. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
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− | + | When the slide is in normal state, a shadow with a width of 2px displays behind the slide. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
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− | + | The background color of the Page Thumbnail is improved. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
<li> | <li> | ||
− | + | The arrow to hide the Page Thumbnail is more obvious to users. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
</ul> | </ul> | ||
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<p align="left"> <strong>More obvious row and column header color</strong></p> | <p align="left"> <strong>More obvious row and column header color</strong></p> | ||
<p align="left"> In spreadsheets, the row and column headers have a more obvious color compared with the white color of the normal rows and columns. Users can easily tell the difference. </p> | <p align="left"> In spreadsheets, the row and column headers have a more obvious color compared with the white color of the normal rows and columns. Users can easily tell the difference. </p> | ||
<p align="left"> The ruler background and Ruler Left/Right Gray Rectangle become more visible. </p> | <p align="left"> The ruler background and Ruler Left/Right Gray Rectangle become more visible. </p> | ||
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<p align="left"> The background color of the three applications are blue that shows a high contrast with the editing areas. It looks more vivid. </p></td> | <p align="left"> The background color of the three applications are blue that shows a high contrast with the editing areas. It looks more vivid. </p></td> | ||
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<td width="932"><ul> | <td width="932"><ul> | ||
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− | + | The context menus have been<strong> logically organized</strong> in this release. Users can easily identify the function entries in the context menus. | |
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− | + | The UI strings have been refined to reflect the meaning of the UI controls. And the terms are consistent in menus and dialogs. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
</ul> | </ul> | ||
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<tr valign="top"> | <tr valign="top"> | ||
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− | + | The layout for the Bullets and Numbering dialog has been re-designed, the focus is context sensitive when opening the dialog, and the default items can be customized and saved. | |
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</ul> | </ul> | ||
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− | + | Numbering and bullets entries are available on the sidebar and they are context sensitive too. | |
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− | + | Restarting and continue numbering behavior is enhanced. For any paragraph which contains numbering, users can use the continue numbering function. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
</ul> | </ul> | ||
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− | + | To improve the interoperability of the chapter numbering, users can add list level attribute to style:style according to ODF1.2. For detailed information, visit this <a href="http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/add_list_level_attribute_to_style:style">Wiki page.</a> | |
</li> | </li> | ||
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− | + | The inherited paragraph styles of Headline style can be associated with outline numbering style. | |
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− | + | The numbering and bullets can be moved to a new page or column when creating a new page break or column break. | |
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</ul> | </ul> | ||
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− | + | When users open the Style List window by pressing F11, it is docked on the sidebar by default. Users can also drag it to other places. | |
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− | + | Users can select style types easily form the drop-down list in the <strong>Style type</strong> field. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
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− | + | The <strong>Apply</strong>, <strong>New</strong>, <strong>Modify</strong>, and <strong>Load Styles</strong> buttons are more visible to users. | |
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</ul> | </ul> | ||
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− | + | When copying objects, corresponding animations on these objects are also copied. | |
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− | + | Support<strong> </strong>for importing Microsoft PPT files that contain linked spreadsheets. | |
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− | + | When playing a<strong> </strong>slide show<strong> </strong>on multiple displays, the page on the main view is synchronized automatically with the screen show page. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
<li> | <li> | ||
− | + | In normal view, Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 automatically hides the scroll bars when they are not needed. If the vertical and horizontal scroll bars are always displayed, it wastes UI space. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
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− | + | All paragraphs within objects can be bulleted or numbered together by clicking the <strong>Bullets and Numbering</strong> button on the toolbar. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
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− | + | Users can resume a slide show after switching to other applications. | |
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− | + | To insert a new row,<strong> </strong>press Tab in the last cell of a table in the presentation. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
<li> | <li> | ||
− | + | Users have the following ways to insert new slides: | |
</li> | </li> | ||
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− | + | Insert new slides from external files. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
<li> | <li> | ||
− | + | Press Enter in the Thumbnail panel. | |
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− | + | Press Ctrl+M. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
</ul> | </ul> | ||
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<p align="left"> When creating a section, the default cursor is in the next new line below the section area. And this new line is always reserved even when pressing Backspace to move the cursor back to the section area. Here is an example:</p> | <p align="left"> When creating a section, the default cursor is in the next new line below the section area. And this new line is always reserved even when pressing Backspace to move the cursor back to the section area. Here is an example:</p> | ||
<p align="left"> Step 1: Create a new section, the cursor is automatically in the next line below the section area.</p> | <p align="left"> Step 1: Create a new section, the cursor is automatically in the next line below the section area.</p> | ||
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<p align="left"> Step 2: Press Backspace, the cursor moves back to the section area. But the next line is still able to input text.</p> | <p align="left"> Step 2: Press Backspace, the cursor moves back to the section area. But the next line is still able to input text.</p> | ||
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<p align="left"> Step 3: Manually move the cursor to next line and users can start to type new text.</p> | <p align="left"> Step 3: Manually move the cursor to next line and users can start to type new text.</p> | ||
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<p align="left"> <strong>Page boundary enhancement: </strong> </p> | <p align="left"> <strong>Page boundary enhancement: </strong> </p> | ||
<p align="left"> The document page boundary is not displayed by default. It greatly improve the online readability of documents. This improvement also avoids overlapping borders between tables and documents. </p> | <p align="left"> The document page boundary is not displayed by default. It greatly improve the online readability of documents. This improvement also avoids overlapping borders between tables and documents. </p> | ||
<p align="left"> Users can select to display the page boundary by selecting <strong>File > Preferences > Symphony > Color Scheme</strong>, and then select the <strong>Text boundaries</strong> check box. </p> | <p align="left"> Users can select to display the page boundary by selecting <strong>File > Preferences > Symphony > Color Scheme</strong>, and then select the <strong>Text boundaries</strong> check box. </p> | ||
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<p align="left"> <strong>Spreadsheets:</strong></p> | <p align="left"> <strong>Spreadsheets:</strong></p> | ||
<p align="left"> Users can filter, sort, and do subtotal operations for different source data in one sheet.</p> | <p align="left"> Users can filter, sort, and do subtotal operations for different source data in one sheet.</p> | ||
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<p align="left"> Users can get instant filter query result on status bar.</p> | <p align="left"> Users can get instant filter query result on status bar.</p> | ||
<p align="left"> Row headers of the filtered items are indicated with blue. </p> | <p align="left"> Row headers of the filtered items are indicated with blue. </p> | ||
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− | + | Load (filter): Read the data from the disk and construct the content model in the memory. | |
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− | + | CreateView: Construct the view model according to the content model and display the contents to the users. | |
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</ul> | </ul> | ||
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− | + | The checkpoint of autosave has been redesigned. The redundant saves have been eliminated when there is no change made since the previous autosave. | |
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</ul></td> | </ul></td> | ||
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− | + | On the <strong>View </strong>menu, select <strong>Normal</strong>. The presentation switches to normal view. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
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− | + | Below the slide editing area, users can type notes in the speaker notes box for the current slide. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
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− | + | On the sidebar, users can set text and paragraph properties for these notes. If users want to set more properties for notes, users can switch to the notes view. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
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<td width="314"><p align="left"> <strong>Title master page support</strong></p></td> | <td width="314"><p align="left"> <strong>Title master page support</strong></p></td> | ||
<td width="932"><p align="left"> Lotus Symphony supports both the title master page and content master page. </p> | <td width="932"><p align="left"> Lotus Symphony supports both the title master page and content master page. </p> | ||
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<td width="932"><p align="left"> <strong>Improved Stability and quality for tables</strong></p> | <td width="932"><p align="left"> <strong>Improved Stability and quality for tables</strong></p> | ||
<p align="left"> The stability and quality is improved when implementing table-related actions.</p> | <p align="left"> The stability and quality is improved when implementing table-related actions.</p> | ||
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<p align="left"> <strong>Usability:</strong></p> <p align="left"> The usability of tables has improved: e.g. using the "autocolor" style as the default table border style. The default color of the table borders can be automatically adjusted according to the current color schema.</p></td> | <p align="left"> <strong>Usability:</strong></p> <p align="left"> The usability of tables has improved: e.g. using the "autocolor" style as the default table border style. The default color of the table borders can be automatically adjusted according to the current color schema.</p></td> | ||
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− | + | Users can copy cells that contain data from a spreadsheet and paste them in slides. The cell range is<strong> </strong>treated as an OLE object and you can navigate to the original sheet by double-clicking the object. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
<li> | <li> | ||
− | + | When data in the cell range that is<strong> </strong>copied from the source spreadsheets changes, you can update these changes in presentations. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
</ul> | </ul> | ||
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− | + | Users can also import Microsoft PPT files that contain linked spreadsheets in Lotus Symphony. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
</ul></td> | </ul></td> | ||
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− | + | <strong>A new DataPilot panel</strong> for users to easily modify the DataPilot table including the layout and structure. | |
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− | + | <strong>A new member selection window</strong> in the DataPilot table. | |
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<p align="left"> <strong>Picture 2:</strong> After users change the layout of the DataPilot table, the cell formatting is preserved. </p> | <p align="left"> <strong>Picture 2:</strong> After users change the layout of the DataPilot table, the cell formatting is preserved. </p> | ||
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<p align="left"> Click <a href="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lswiki.nsf/dx/01152009125541PMLBAQ6Z.htm">here </a>to watch the video for details. </p></td> | <p align="left"> Click <a href="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lswiki.nsf/dx/01152009125541PMLBAQ6Z.htm">here </a>to watch the video for details. </p></td> | ||
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− | + | Users can correctly load Excel <strong>.</strong>xls or <strong>.</strong>xlsx files with formulas that contain wildcard characters. | |
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− | + | Create a header or a footer in the document | |
</li> | </li> | ||
<li> | <li> | ||
− | + | Create a page field. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
<li> | <li> | ||
− | + | Insert the page number | |
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</ol> | </ol> | ||
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− | + | When sharing a document with others which contains linked audio or video files, if the relative path changes, the changes can be automatically recognized. Other users can still find the audio or video files. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
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− | + | The UI for creating linked objects and embedded objects are consistent. | |
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− | + | When users create a TOC by default, the TOC can jump. | |
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<li> | <li> | ||
− | + | When loading a binary Microsoft Word document that contains a tables of contents into Lotus Symphony, the TOC is reserved. If the TOC can jump, the jumping function can also be preserved in Symphony. | |
</li> | </li> | ||
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− | + | For MS Word 2007/2010 files | |
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− | + | For MS PPT 2007/2010 files | |
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− | + | For MS Excel 2007/2010 files | |
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− | + | Symphony added support for more objects including: Comments enhancement, Conditional formatting. | |
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− | + | Lotus Symphony provides better CTL text support by enhancing the text layout. | |
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− | + | Supports BIDI controls and complex expression. Improve the interoperability of Microsoft Office documents with BIDI features. | |
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− | + | Ability to set a default preference for the format of new files (ODF or MS Binary) | |
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− | + | Support IA2 and enhanced the shortcut keys. | |
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− | + | Support JAWS and NVDA tools on the Windows platform. | |
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− | + | Overall stability improvements when running in ACC mode. | |
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Revision as of 02:00, 15 May 2012
Contributed Features
This document gives an overview of the additional features
Contents
General Features Performance and reliability enhancements Presentation Features Spreadsheet Features Document Features OOXML Support enhancements RTF Support Globalization and BIDI enhancements Accessibility Support
General Features
Features |
Description |
General Features |
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New sidebar & 13 property sections (productivity enhancement) |
New Sidebar - Panel Management:
Properties panel:
To learn more about the new sidebar, watch this video for more details: <a href="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lswiki.nsf/dx/Video_The_Sidebar_in_Lotus_Symphony_3_Your_Key_to_Text_Layout_and_More">Symphony Sidebar Video</a> |
Look and feel of the visual design |
The visual design of the tab bar is improved:
In spreadsheets, when users click the sheet name on the tab bar, the sheet name tab is also highlighted and underlined. The visual design of the Page Thumbnail in presentations is improved:
More obvious row and column header color In spreadsheets, the row and column headers have a more obvious color compared with the white color of the normal rows and columns. Users can easily tell the difference. The ruler background and Ruler Left/Right Gray Rectangle become more visible. The background color of the three applications are blue that shows a high contrast with the editing areas. It looks more vivid. |
More structured context menus and refined UI strings |
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Well-designed templates (20+) and clip art gallery (500+) |
20 new templates and 500+ Clip Arts Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 has more than 20 document templates from which users can quickly create documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. Additionally, users can insert more than 500 pieces of art from the Clip Art gallery.
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Numbering and bullets function and usability enhancements |
The Bullets and Numbering window layout has changed to be more logically organized with a better visual design enabling you to set list styles more easily.
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Style list dialog usability enhancement |
Usability Enhancement:
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Connector support in documents and spreadsheets |
Connectors are enabled in Document and Spreadsheet editors.
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Numerous usability enhancements for all editors |
Presentations:
Documents: Tab behavior enhancement: When users select one or more paragraphs, press Tab, an indent is added before the paragraph. Before, the selected text was replaced by a Tab character. Section creation refinement: When creating a section, the default cursor is in the next new line below the section area. And this new line is always reserved even when pressing Backspace to move the cursor back to the section area. Here is an example: Step 1: Create a new section, the cursor is automatically in the next line below the section area. Step 2: Press Backspace, the cursor moves back to the section area. But the next line is still able to input text. Step 3: Manually move the cursor to next line and users can start to type new text. Page boundary enhancement: The document page boundary is not displayed by default. It greatly improve the online readability of documents. This improvement also avoids overlapping borders between tables and documents. Users can select to display the page boundary by selecting File > Preferences > Symphony > Color Scheme, and then select the Text boundaries check box. Spreadsheets: Users can filter, sort, and do subtotal operations for different source data in one sheet. Users can move rows or columns easily by dragging row or column headers. Users can get instant filter query result on status bar. Row headers of the filtered items are indicated with blue. |
Supported VBA APIs |
VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) is a programming language used in most Microsoft Office applications. You can run Microsoft VBA code directly in Lotus Symphony. More than 200 VBA APIs are available for users. For more information on our VBA support please look at this document <a href="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lswiki.nsf/dx/Lotus_Symphony_VBA_API_documentation">Visual Basic Documentation</a> |
Performance and reliability enhancement |
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Performance enhancement Using asynchronous loading Two steps to load Symphony documents:
To improve the loading performance, the above two steps now are executed in two threads, so the user can view a part of the document content while the document is loading, which is called ‘Asynchronous Loading’ For more information, please refer to the Wiki page: <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/An_introduction_to_Asynchronous_loading_in_Symphony">Asynchronous Loading Information</a> Quick save in ODP files In ODP files, page is used as the saving unit, when loading the file, the start and end offset can be recorded. When saving the file, only the changed part needs to be exported. The unchanged part can be directly copied from memory. This improvement can greatly reduce the time it takes to save a presentation file. Autosave enhancement
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Presentation Features |
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Support speaker notes in normal view |
In normal view, users can not only view speaker notes for slides in the presentation, but also set simple properties:
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Undo and redo support in text objects |
Stability and quality enhancement: Eliminate the crash and freeze during the undo and redo actions. Improve the quality when doing the undo and redo actions.
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Title master page support |
Lotus Symphony supports both the title master page and content master page. |
Insert slides from an external file |
Users can insert slides from files in presentations by selecting Create > New Slides from File or using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+I. |
Rendering and usability improvement on thumbnail slider |
Rendering: The rendering quality on the Thumbnail panel is improved. Usability: When the cursor focus is on the Thumbnail panel, users can create a slide quickly by pressing Enter. |
Stability and usability improvements for table |
Improved Stability and quality for tables The stability and quality is improved when implementing table-related actions. Usability: The usability of tables has improved: e.g. using the "autocolor" style as the default table border style. The default color of the table borders can be automatically adjusted according to the current color schema. |
Better animation effects and interoperability with Microsoft PPT files |
Improved stability and quality of existing animation effects: When playing the slide show, the animation effects can now play successfully with high quality, for example, the Change Font Size effect and some Entrance effects that play after the Exit effects. Better interoperability with Microsoft PPT: The interoperability with Microsoft PowerPoint is improved. For example, if a .ppt file contains the Light Speed entrance effect, the attributes are kept when loading it into Lotus Symphony. All shapes can return to the original position after playing the effects. Improved Usability with the implementation of Start Screenshow from Current Slide (shift + F5)
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Linked spreadsheet support in presentations |
Coping data from a spreadsheet as a link
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Spreadsheet Features |
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DataPilot enhancements in the areas of: UI, functionality, and performance |
DataPilot Enhancements:
Picture 2: After users change the layout of the DataPilot table, the cell formatting is preserved.
Click <a href="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lswiki.nsf/dx/01152009125541PMLBAQ6Z.htm">here </a>to watch the video for details. |
Excel wildcard character support in formulas |
A list of the wildcard characters are supported in the formulas in Excel files that open with Lotus Symphony.
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Improved usability and function of importing external data |
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Enhancements on instant filter, sort, and formulas |
Support Sort Ascending and Sort Descending in Instant Filters
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Document Features |
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LotusNotes link |
Users can copy a link from Lotus Notes, and then paste it in Lotus Symphony Documents. When users click the link, the linked document opens in Lotus Notes. |
Select all enhancements |
Enhancements of selecting all Ctrl + A: If a document contains tables in the beginning, press Ctrl+A and the table and the contents outside the table can both be selected. Then, users can move, delete, and copy and paste the selected objects. Hover: Users can also select the table by hovering the cursor from the end to the beginning of the table. If the table contains nested tables, . Then, users can move, delete, and copy and paste the tables. |
Page numbering enhancement |
Previously: Steps for adding page numbers to a document:
Now: Users can do this with one single step: Select Create > Page Numbering. |
Memorize the file path when inserting objects into editors |
When inserting an object, the path of the previous object displays in the path field. Users don't have to find the pictures from the root folder. |
Audio&Video Problems and Enhancements |
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Default TOC can jump |
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OOXML support enhancement |
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Symphony added support for more objects including: VML shape support, Cross-reference, OLE, Revision, Form field and Header & Footer.
Symphony added support for more objects including: Page Style, Line spacing, font color enhancement.
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RTF support |
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Enhanced the interoperability of customshape, table, shape properties (wrap, alignment, border, etc.) and bullets in RTF files. |
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Globalization and BIDI enhancement |
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Default File type Option |
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Accessibility support |
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