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What's New in IBM® Lotus® SymphonyTM 3?
General
New Features
VBA *,*,*,*,*,*,s 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
Enhancements
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
Document editor
New Features
Enabled native nested tables support.
Enabled multi-page view layout support.
Support of Auto Text
More fields support
Custom properties
Outline levels within paragraph
Enhancements
Enhanced PDF export support.
Improved document notes function.
Enhancements in supporting much more types of fields in documents.
Ability to select rectangle region of text in document editor.
Ability to set bullets and numbering in multiple table cells at a time.
Document header and footer function enhancements and usability improvements
Enhanced the interoperability with MS Word documents that contains page grid layout content
Spreadsheet editor
New Features
Extended maximum number of columns from 256 to 1024.
Sheet specific zoom support.
Text to column value convert support.
Detective function.
Solve equations and solver.
"What if" function.
Inline array constants in formulas.
Dynamic ranges in validation lists.
More formulas.
Enhancements
Improved sort and formula performance.
Enhancement in moving rows or columns easily through dragging column headers.
Ability to select multiple sheets.
Formula hot hints.
Flexible source range selection
Enabled multiple calculation in one sheet of the Lotus Spreadsheet editor, including mixed sort and filter, as well as multiple sort areas.
Enabled sorting instant filters in Lotus Spreadsheet
Enhanced functionality and usability in "import data from external file" function
Enhanced the support of auto selection in files with built-in database ranges
Presentation editor
New Features
Multi-monitor display support.
More presentation animation effects.
More page layouts.
More drawing objects.
More fontwork.
Support of copy and paste pages or objects together with animation effects.
Enhancements
Significantly improved user experience in managing and using templates.
Enhancement in slide show effect through hardware acceleration for graphics.
Improved crop feature.
Support of switching between four different views in presentation by clicking tabs at the bottom of the screen.
Disabled Autosave during Lotus Presentation slide show to avoid the unexpected interruption
Enhanced the Presentation text objects undo and redo function
Chart
New Features
Significantly improved chart experience through new chart engine.
Enhancements
New chart creation wizard.
Many newly added formatting options.
More chart types: Column and Line, Cylinder, Cone, Pyramid...
Symphony 1.3 features disabled in Symphony 3 releases
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