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IBM Lotus Symphony Changelog

What's new in IBM Lotus Symphony 3.0.1

May 18, 2012
  • General:
  • Opening Microsoft Office 2007 documents that are protected by a password.
  • More numbering and bullet styles.
  • Performance enhancement for autosave.
  • Homepage enhancement.
  • Presentations:
  • Editing speaker notes in normal view.
  • Coping data from a spreadsheet as a link.
  • Spreadsheets:
  • Keeping formatting in DataPilot tables.
  • 1 million rows support in spreadsheets
  • Preserving the cell comments in Microsoft Office 2007 Excel files after save it in Lotus Symphony.
  • Charts:
  • New chart types.
  • Inserting new level categories in chart data.
  • Including values from hidden cells.
  • Rotating text in data labels.
  • Key Bug Fixes:
  • Cannot save files if you keep the files open on Apple Mac OS and do not touch them for several days.
  • Content is lost after saving a .docx file to an .odt file that contains bookmarks across multiple table cells.
  • Open .pptx file in Symphony, create new slide, the default text box goes out of slide page.
  • Create a table in a presentation, input text in the table cells, apply a table design to the table, undo once or twice, Symphony fails.
  • Error message 4000:Unknown Exception shows when running LotusScript code in Lotus Notes.
  • Auto save cannot save the password of documents.
  • Copy a table with data from Excel to Symphony presentation, text in the graphic does not display well while opening the file or playing the screenshow in Symphony on Mac.
  • A security vulnerability in OpenOffice.org that is related to .doc file processing might lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • Open a .xls file with formula GETPIVOTDATA in the first sheet and Lotus Symphony fails.
  • Export an .ods file that contains a DataPilot with TopN settings, and Microsoft Excel 2003 reports that the file is corrupted when opening the .xls file.
  • Set preference as Microsoft Office 97-2003 file type for new created files, and the file extensions are not changed.
  • The title is not correctly positioned on slides that contain only titles.
  • Lotus Symphony fails when running the VBA code ThisWorkbook.Worksheets.Add.
  • Spell check marks the Hungarian word as a wrong word after added it in the dictionary.
  • Default Japanese font is not correct when changing locales to ja if the document is created in an English locale.
  • If you open a .xlsx file which contains multiple PivotTables with same name, the PivotTables are lost.
  • Range name is lost when opening the a .xls file that contains the same range names with a different scope.
  • Cannot import Excel template and Word template to the Template Organizer.
  • Lotus Symphony freezes when copying and pasting a bullet with a customized big graphic.
  • On Mac OS, Symphony freezes when using fn+control+F2 to switch to the menu.
  • Templates with a PNG object and an OLE object cannot be saved to .ppt format correctly.
  • Open a .docx file that contains a table and a special field in the table and the table is lost.
  • The page layout turns to Portrait when opening a .docx file that contains a section and table in the page with different page styles.
  • The arrow shapes are lost when opening a .docx file that contains arrows with unsupported line properties.
  • In a spreadsheet, paste a hyperlink into an unprotected cell in a protected sheet, and the cell turns into a protected cell.
  • In a spreadsheet, when Paste Special is selected for a comment only in a cell, the text in the cell is deleted.
  • Open an .xls file in Lotus Symphony, enter a formula that uses commas as the separator, save the file, and reopen it and the formula is lost.
  • The context menu for rows and columns does not display when right-clicking a cell in the table in a presentation.
  • When saving an .odp file as .ppt format, transparency on a shape is lost when opening the .ppt file in Microsoft PowerPoint.
  • Text fails to import to a spreadsheet when the field begins with an equal sign.
  • The .csv file that contains double quotation marks in a cell is truncated after imported into Lotus Symphony.
  • The top alignment attribute for text in text box is lost when opening a .pptx file in Symphony.
  • Users should be able to navigate only between all unprotected cells in a spreadsheet by pressing the Tab key.
  • When opening a .pptx file in Symphony which contains text with default font style, the font size becomes larger.
  • The chart and graphics display as a line if the grouped rows are expanded when opening a spreadsheet file.
  • The connector line changes its position automatically when changing the color of the connected shape.
  • The attributes of Numbering in presentations cannot be obtained by the accessibility tool UnoInspect32.

New in IBM Lotus Symphony 3 (Nov 11, 2010)

  • General:
  • New Features
  • VBA scripts 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:
  • Ability to import SmartSuite files.
  • Freehand table.
  • Presentation print preview.
  • Ability to create new XForm document
  • Connector support in document editor
  • Key Bug Fixes:
  • Symphony Forum
  • The animation effects including wipe, appear, motion path in Microsoft Powerpoint sample file don't work properly when opening the sample file with Lotus Symphony.
  • Creating a document containing the empty "Numbering style" by Lotus Symphony 3, when opening the file with Lotus Symphony 1.3, it crashes.
  • Absolute references in conditional formatting are not adjusted when the cell is moved.
  • When selecting one column, click the instant filter and then choose a value, all the lines which contain the value are displayed. But when all the lines are selected and the values are changed, the values in other lines are also changed unexpectedly.
  • Language Related Fixes
  • When copying part of the spreadsheet as DDE link and pasting it to Lotus Symphony Document, Hebrew characters will be lost.
  • Lotus Symphony Document
  • Open some MS Word 2007 files in Lotus Symphony, the size of the bullet indents in table and the text indents in footer are bigger than the size in MS Office 2007.
  • Open some MS Word 2003 file in Lotus Symphony, the pictures and logs in header and footer are lost.
  • Opening the sample file in Lotus Symphony, compared the result with Microsoft Word, the position of tables has been moved to the left.
  • The texts on the left side of a table are truncated when saving Lotus Symphony Document sample file as MS Word file and open it with Lotus Symphony again.
  • Hyperlinks targeted in the same document don't work well.
  • Lotus Symphony Presentation
  • Can not export all slides as JPG graphic format in Lotus Symphony.
  • If a Presentation sample file is created by Lotus Symphony 1.3 and it contains the drawing objects, open the sample file and save it in Symphony 3 Beta 4, the connectors will be messed up.
  • Duplicate formatting does not work in Lotus Symphony Presentation in some scenarios.
  • Lotus Symphony Presentation freezes when loading the sample files which contain thousands of hyperlinks.
  • Open sample file in Lotus Symphony Presentation, the texts in table can not be replaced through the Find and Replace dialog.
  • Lotus Symphony 1.3 hang when opening a presentation file which contains more than 9 level of outlines.
  • When importing the template *.otp file to the template organizer, the appearance becomes untidy.
  • Connector will not be moved along with the grouped shapes in Lotus Symphony Presentation.
  • In Lotus Symphony Presentation, new three shapes in one slide, and group two of them. Create a connector to connect them, the grouped shapes are the start point. Copy or duplicate the slide. In the second slide, move the grouped shapes, the connector is detached from the grouped shapes.
  • Lotus Symphony Spreadsheet
  • When changing the value of a cell in the filtered column, value of the unfiltered rows are also affected.
  • Resizing the grouped objects can not change the pointers of callout objects as expected.
  • Open MS Excel file with Lotus Symphony, the result of calculation will be "#div/0!" if the referenced cells are strings.
  • The output of COUNTIF formula in Lotus Symphony is different from the output in Microsoft Excel.
  • Lotus Symphony prompts err:508 instead of the actual output when opening the Microsoft Excel sample file.
  • Open a Microsoft Excel sample file with Lotus Symphony, users will get "General Error" when double-clicking an OLE object.
  • General usage
  • After deleting multiple cells in Lotus Symphony spreadsheet, not all of them can be recovered by using the undo function.
  • If a file is locked by OpenOffice, this file is in read-only mode when opening with Lotus Symphony.
  • Sometimes when Lotus Symphony crashes, restart it for the first time, a blank recovery dialog is popped up.
  • It took several minutes to complete spell check for a sample file.
  • Inserting graphic as a link to one file and export the file as PDF format, the linked graphics are not exported to the PDF file.
  • Cannot copy/paste pictures from Paint.NET to Lotus Symphony.

New in IBM Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 4 (Nov 11, 2010)

  • General Quality Improvements:
  • Improved the quality of "Open in New Window" function significantly
  • Function and usability bug fixes in key areas in three applications including presentation table usability, slide show quality, master page and templates, spreadsheet filter/sort/subtotal and document revision
  • Improved performance in startup
  • Improved performance in ODT and MS Excel file saving
  • General stability, interoperability, function and usability bug fixes
  • New Features:
  • Support of VML images in OOXML files
  • Support of more parameters for protecting spreadsheet files and sheets in VBA API
  • Support of editing and saving autotext content
  • 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
  • Enhancements:
  • Enhanced the support of opening files with wrong or empty extensions
  • Enhanced functionality and usability in "import data from external file" function
  • Enhanced the interoperability with MS Word documents that contains page grid layout content
  • Enhanced the support of auto selection in files with built-in database ranges
  • Enabled memorizing user file paths when inserting objects into file
  • Enhanced the Presentation text objects undo and redo function
  • Improved accessibility support for graphic objects in files and Help
  • Improved BiDi language support by better support of window mirroring
  • Key Bug Fixes:
  • Symphony Forum
  • In Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, Ctrl+Right arrow key does not work properly when there are hidden cells.
  • In Lotus Symphony Presentations, table border becomes thicker than original border in Microsoft PowerPoint.
  • When copying a customized graphic bullet symbol, only the text content is copied.
  • When copying cells from Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets and pasting them into an IBM Lotus Notes document, the cells become a picture and the font size is increased.
  • Language Related Fixes
  • The default UI language is Italian after installing Lotus Symphony on French locale.
  • There is one error typo on the displayed error window when installing the same version over the previous one.
  • Lotus Symphony Documents
  • Editing and adding some comments in some specific sample documents, the comments are corrupted.
  • Open a Microsoft Word file in Lotus Symphony, the table layout in the page is incorrect and there is extra page break in one page.
  • Formatting is lost on the sample document which was created with OpenOffice 3.2.
  • The background color of table is lost in Microsoft Word 2003 after opening the sample *.doc file and saving it in Symphony 3 beta.
  • The check box status in a form field is lost when opening a sample docx file in Lotus Symphony.
  • Display and line spacing is not correct when opening a sample .docx in Lotus Symphony.
  • The text vertical alignment in table cell is displayed incorrectly when opening sample .doc in Symphony 3 beta.
  • The Paragraph line spacing setting "at least 0" is displayed as "single" in a sample file when loading it in Symphony 3 beta.
  • Cannot adjust the value of line spacing with "At Least" which is set in a Microsoft Word document.
  • Tab stop is not handled correctly when updating TOC in Lotus Symphony.
  • Using the handles on the ruler to change the bullet indent does not work.
  • Launch Lotus Symphony and create new a document. Right-click on the document tab and choose to open it in a new window. Insert a drawing object in the child window and click Object name in context menu.The result is that the main window is activated and mouse cursor moves to main window.
  • Lotus Symphony Presentations
  • After horizontally zooming the image of a table in a presentation, the content cannot be recognized.
  • Open a Microsoft Powerpoint file which includes a chart OLE place holder in Lotus Symphony, save it as an .odp file, then reopen the .odp file in Lotus Symphony, Lotus Symphony crashes.
  • In some situations, there might be a deviation when graphic objects are viewed in screen show mode.
  • Open a Microsoft Powerpoint file in Lotus Symphony, adjust the table border, save it as another PowerPoint file, and open the file in PowerPoint. The text in the first row of the table is lost.
  • When loading a Microsoft PowerPoint file in Lotus Symphony, if the size of the bullet is not set, the data is not displayed.
  • In Lotus Symphony Presentations, using copy and paste against sub text causes unclear and unexpected results in cases where the sub text has explicit attributes.
  • Apply style Bullet 1 to a line, then press Enter.The new line is created without bullet.
  • In Lotus Symphony Presentations, switch to master view, select Layout > Bullets and Numbering, switch to the Position tab, the "indent" and "spacing to text" might not work.
  • Pie chart color is lost when opening sample Microsoft Excel file in Lotus Symphony.
  • The Navigator window doesn't display in screen show mode even when "Navigator visible" is enabled.
  • Too much white-space between the thumbnails on the left sidebar.
  • Open a Lotus Symphony Presentation file that was created by Lotus Notes 8.5.1 and copy one specified slide to Lotus Symphony Presentations. The formatting is incorrect.
  • Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets
  • It takes a long time to open sample Microsoft Excel files that include many hidden pictures.
  • It takes a long time to open sample Microsoft Excel files that include 2000+ small texts and line objects.
  • You cannot insert or delete cells into or from the middle of a range of merged cells.
  • The "Day" format is missing when opening a Microsoft Excel file in Lotus Symphony.
  • Microsoft Excel files with cells using the time format MM:SS.00 display incorrect values when they are opened in Lotus Symphony.
  • Data validation list in Microsoft 2007 Excel is not handled correctly in Lotus Symphony.
  • Programmability
  • Calling Java API to insert rows into a table in Lotus Symphony Presentations, Lotus Symphony occasionally freezes or crashes.
  • Focus jumps to the other sheet when doing the copy operation in VBA macro.
  • Cannot copy cell contents using VBA macro when the worksheet is hidden.
  • General usage
  • Open two files in Lotus Symphony. Right-click on the second tab to open the second file in a new window. Edit the first file and click the Save icon or press Ctrl+S to save the file. Close the second file in the second tab. From now on, you cannot perform the save operation in the first file.
  • Lotus Symphony might freeze after editing a template and saving it again.
  • When editing a Lotus Symphony document, the Apply Styles drop-down list on the toolbar loops through the available styles several times.
  • Open or create a Lotus Symphony document and create a numbered list of text. Select File > Preferences and change the value of the measurement for tab stops and save the change. The numbers are removed from the list you just created.

New in IBM Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 3 (Jun 15, 2010)

  • General Quality Improvements:
  • Improved ODF file fidelity to better support processing files which were generated by previous versions of Lotus Symphony
  • Fixed key Mac OS specific stability, functional and usability bugs
  • Fixed Lotus Symphony Presentation table functional and usability bugs
  • Improved memory leak issue during long run of Lotus Symphony
  • Fixed additional bugs on general stability, function, usability and Microsoft Office interoperability
  • New Features:
  • More VBA APIs are supported
  • Ability to customize toolbar content and layout
  • Enabled Sidebar panel management to show or hide sidebar panels
  • More sidebar pages and sections containing new property controlling
  • Spreadsheet cell appearance, including cell borders
  • Graphic
  • Word processor page settings, including margins
  • More sidebar panels in presentation editor
  • Color palette, eyedropper, image animation, and 3D effects
  • Enabled Live Text support
  • 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
  • Enhancements:
  • Enhancements in Accessibility support
  • Enhancements in BiDi localization support
  • Enhanced copy/paste interoperability between Lotus Symphony and Lotus Notes
  • Document header and footer function enhancements and usability improvements
  • Enabled multiple calculation in one sheet of the Lotus Spreadsheet editor, including mixed sort and filter, as well as multiple sort areas
  • Enhanced the usability in manipulating color property with new color picker controls
  • Fixed Audio/video related defects and enhanced the user experience
  • Enabled new progress bar to launch and load/save files
  • Refined main menu and toolbar contents
  • Enabled sorting instant filters in Lotus Spreadsheet
  • Disabled Autosave during Lotus Presentation slide show to avoid the unexpected interruption
  • Added one click link to LotusLive website on homepage
  • Various additional user experience enhancements
  • Significant enhancement in online help content and structure

New in IBM Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 2 (Feb 12, 2010)

  • General:
  • New Features:
  • VBA scripts support.
  • ODF 1.2 standard support.
  • Office 2007 OLE support.
  • Brand new sidebars containing eight enriched property sections across different editors.
  • Ability to create new business cards and labels.
  • Ability to insert OLE, audio and video files.
  • Master document support.
  • 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.
  • Document editor:
  • New Features:
  • Enabled native nested tables support.
  • Enabled multi-page view layout support.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Presentation editor:
  • New Features:
  • Multi-monitor display support.
  • More presentation animation effects.
  • More page layout.
  • More drawing objects.
  • More fontwork.
  • Enhancements:
  • Significantly improved user experience in managing and using templates.
  • Enhancement in slide show effect through hardware acceleration for graphics.
  • Improved crop feature.
  • 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 Beta 2 but to be enabled in GA release:
  • Live text
  • File encryption for Microsoft Excel file.
  • Presentation table style support.
  • Improved mechanism for opening files with unsupported extensions.
  • More performance improvements.
  • Full accessibility support.
  • Plugins/Widgets for Symphony located at http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony/plugin.nsf/home will not install.
  • Symphony 1.3 features disabled in any Symphony 3 releases:
  • Ability to import SmartSuite files.
  • Freehand table.
  • Presentation print preview.
  • Key Bug Fixes:
  • Language Related Fixes:
  • Create a new presentation, and insert a 3D effect object from Clip Art. Press Ctrl+C to copy it into clipboard, it doesn't work when attempting to paste into a document or spreadsheet.
  • With Complex Text Layout (CTL) enabled, it needs 150 seconds to split the big Arabic paragraph.
  • With Complex Text Layout (CTL) enabled, it needs 3 minutes to open the sample file.
  • When specific Korean font has been applied to the text, press Enter, certain characters cannot be shown.
  • Lotus Symphony Documents:
  • Install a certain true type font under OS, and then loading special Microsoft Word document in Lotus Symphony will cause crash.
  • Receive soreport.exe error when attempting to open some Microsoft Word document.
  • Some characters in header display incorrectly.
  • The footer with Roman page number cannot be shown.
  • Open a Microsoft Word document, the line behind image is brought to front in the header.
  • Open a Microsoft Word document, formatting of Table of Contents gets lost.
  • Open a specified file, select one table and open Table Properties, and then clear Allow for page/column break within rows, an error message pops up and any unsaved changes get lost.
  • Lotus Symphony Presentations:
  • Opening certain Microsoft Powerpoint slide will get error "Main memory shortage".
  • Open a Microsoft Powerpoint slide, the direction of the text in custom shape changes.
  • Use API to create textboxes or rectangles, and then group them with text either by hand or API. When saved, all texts get lost.
  • Load certain Microsoft Powerpoint file on Ubuntu platform, to scroll down in the slide thumbnails will cause Symphony freeze.
  • Lotus Symphony doesn't allow user to manually connect connector to shape embedded in group.
  • The pie chart in Microsoft Powerpoint file doesn't display well in Lotus Symphony.
  • The bullets in certain Microsoft Powerpoint file change from numbers to symbols.
  • Jagged edge observed around the image objects in EMF format.
  • Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets:
  • Edit a specific Microsoft Excel 2000 file containing protected range and save it as .xls format in Lotus Symphony, you cannot open it in Microsoft Excel or Excel viewer any more.
  • When print previewing a Microsoft Excel file, the check box control cannot display.
  • Edit a specific Microsoft Excel file containing Pivot Table and save it as .xls format in Lotus Symphony, Microsoft Office Excel will crash when opening the file.
  • Opening .ods file containing special OLE objects will cause Symphony freeze.
  • Saving some special spreadsheet file will cause Symphony crash.
  • In a new spreadsheet, set the sheet to be protected. Then put cursor in any cell, pressing Shift+Tab will cause Symphony crash.
  • DATEIF formula doesn't work in Lotus Symphony.
  • In Preferences page, clear the Zero value field in Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets view. Create a new spreadsheet and input zero in cells, these numbers are hidden. Copy those cells and paste them as bitmap into presentation, the pasted bitmap displays all the zero numbers.
  • Number hyperlink will be lost when loading .xls in spreadsheets.
  • Save some Microsoft Excel in Lotus Symphony and reopen it in Microsoft Excel, an error message pops up "Excel found unreadable content it...".
  • Create a validation list in Microsoft Excel. Open the file in Lotus Symphony and save it. Open the file again in Microsoft Excel, the validation list is lost.
  • General usage:
  • It's very slow to open some special Microsoft PowerPoint file with OLE objects in it.
  • It takes long time to open special Microsoft Excel file with many reference data in it.
  • If a column number of a table is larger than 26, the last column could not be selected either with the mouse or the keyboard.
  • In a document, input a Chinese character and change its font size to Chinese format in properties. Move the cursor to other place and then back to the Chinese character, the font size changes.
  • If you save odp file format to Microsoft PowerPoint format, the visio figures disappear.

New in IBM Lotus Symphony 1.3 (Jun 11, 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.
  • 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.
  • Key Bug Fixes
  • Defects reported on the Symphony Forum
  • A file which has been opened in other editors should be read-only when opened in Symphony.
  • Symphony Document often crashes when searching with words containing wild cards.
  • Measurement units in the sidebar are inconsistent with those in the property window.
  • SUMPRODUCT function doesn't work as in Microsoft Excel.
  • INDIRECT function returns wrong value in Spreadsheet.
  • Charts should end with the last valid data entries in the range, rather than dropping down to zero for blank cells.
  • Items in the form Listbox get lost after saving.
  • Animations created by Symphony can not be recognized by OpenOffice.org.
  • For files in RTF/DOC/ODT format, pages in Landscape are printed out in Portrait.
  • Encrypted document can't be opened even with the correct password in Turkey OS.
  • Symphony fails to print a document with both Portrait and Landscape pages.
  • The email hyperlink can not redirect to the mail system.
  • Symphony can't save https protocol hyperlink.
  • The document created in WordPro and saved as Microsoft Binary File Format cannot be opened by Symphony.

New in IBM Lotus Symphony 1.2 (Nov 4, 2008)

  • Performance enhancements:
  • Improved .ods and .xls files loading performance.
  • Improved .ods files saving performance.
  • Usability enhancements:
  • Enhanced performance optimization options usability by adding Symphony system tray icon.
  • Enhanced exported PDF accessibility by adding structural tags and attributes for document elements.
  • Enhanced BIDI support in Spreadsheet.
  • Added user interface language support in regional settings preferences page.
  • Enabled creating a hyperlink to local documents in all three editors.
  • Associated numbering and bullet style to paragraph properties in Documents.
  • Enhanced new page creation usability in Presentations.
  • Significant enhancements on DataPilot in Spreadsheets.
  • Installation:
  • Lotus Symphony GA is available on Ubuntu.
  • Provided Lotus Symphony Debian packages on Ubuntu.
  • Provided Lotus Symphony RPM packages on SuSe and RedHat.
  • On-line Help Enhancements:
  • Enhanced help content for Presentations.
  • Symphony information center is available in http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/symphony/v1r1/index.jsp where you can find help contents and other related resources.
  • Website:
  • Added Business Partner page.
  • Re-designed Buzz section, Plug-ins section, and Gallery Landing page.
  • Back to top
  • Key Bugs Fixes
  • Defects reported on the Symphony Forum:
  • Incorrect Library name appears in Template Organizer.
  • Portrait page in a PRZ document becomes landscape orientation while opening with symphony.
  • Toggling between centimeters and percentages display for width and height changes size of images.
  • Numbers format is unable to be saved to spreadsheet files.
  • The "File | Recent Files" menu is not wide enough to entirely display long file names.
  • Crop Function doesn't work properly in Symphony presentations.
  • Update all Links leads to crash while opening a .doc file.
  • Lines are overwritten with the sample doc file.
  • While opening files with Symphony which have already been opened in other applications, they should be read-only as expected.
  • Symphony crashes when opening a WordPro document.
  • Text copied from Symphony to MS Word uses non-breaking spaces by default.
  • Text become tremendously smaller after copy/paste in Input Line.
  • The shown results of formula cells are different from OO and MS Excel while opening a .xls file with Symphony.
  • Redundant page "Insert Slides/Objects" appears in Online Help.
  • Can not open a special spreadsheet file successfully.
  • Try to open a special excel file with Symphony, it fails and other Symphony tab windows close.
  • Measurement unit in sidebar and property window should be consistent.
  • The X axis can't display well in Symphony if the x axis type is data (such as 2008/04/21).
  • Korean characters display incorrectly on Ubuntu.
  • Linux
  • Symphony crashes when opening a special .prz under Linux platform.
  • [Ubuntu]warning message appears in terminal when upgrade Symphony.
  • [Linux]Symphony crashes when set numbering style to paragraphs in a table.
  • Language Related Fixes
  • [BIDI]Wrong location values display on OLE Object properties dialog in Symphony spreadsheet under RTL environment.
  • [BIDI]The title of Mail merge progress dialog is LTR under RTL environment.
  • Symphony crashes when input some contents into Title text box in a presentation document and vertically split the document window under BiDi environment.
  • Korean characters display incorrectly on Ubuntu.
  • Lotus Symphony Documents
  • Symphony freezes while opening one special doc and switching to "Online Layout".
  • The fly objects is removed or their anchor position is modified when show/hide some text-deleted empty paragraphs with fly objects anchored to them.
  • An empty text paragraph is appended to the end of the text deletion after show/hide a text deletion.
  • Lotus Symphony Presentations
  • Symphony crashes when clicking "demote bullet" button or close the "preview" dialog in outline view.
  • The layout of pages mess up when opening an .odp(created by Symphony) document by OpenOffice.
  • Symphony crashes when remove/preview the animation effect in "order of animation effects" dialog.
  • Symphony crashes if clicking "display" button for consecutive two times on "insert new pages from file" dialog.
  • Symphony pop-ups error message and crashes when export a presentation file to PDF.
  • The animation effect "change font color" in .ppt file gendered incorrectly in Symphony presentations.
  • Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets
  • Labels of chart's X-Axis is incorrect while opening a .xls file with Symphony.
  • Sheet links become invalid range when editing in the .xls file with symphony.
  • "YYYY/MM/DD" cannot be automatically recognized as a Date under US locale.
  • Symphony can not open a spreadsheet file.
  • Instant filter couldn't filter all column sometimes.
  • Programmability
  • Symphony crashes when run the com.ibm.productivity.tools.samples.views sample plugin and then insert fontworks in sample editor.
  • General usage
  • A couple of script.xlb error dialogs pop up when saving document the first time.
  • The focus doesn't move out from Western field as pressing Tab/Shift+Tab key on "IBM Lotus Symphony->Language Setting->Languages" preference view.
  • Changes in preferences can't be remembered after Symphony restarts with XPD preload enabled.
  • Symphony crashes when repeatedly opening a .ppt file and closing it during loading process for some times.
  • The 3D effect gets lost when saving a Symphony document with both inserted mail fields and 3D effect via "Finish Merge->Save" button on Mail Merge sidebar and reopen it.
  • Symphony freezes while saving a document via "Ctrl+S" to local directory where another document with same name exists,and choose Cancel on Documents-Save dialog.

New in IBM Lotus Symphony 1.1 (Sep 2, 2008)

  • Performance enhancements
  • Functionality enhancements
  • User interface enhancements
  • Interoperability enhancements with Lotus Notes
  • Usability enhancements in Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations
  • Bug Fixes and other enhancements

New in IBM Lotus Symphony 1.1 (Sep 1, 2008)

  • Performance enhancements
  • Functionality enhancements
  • User interface enhancements
  • Interoperability enhancements with Lotus Notes
  • Usability enhancements in Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations
  • Bug Fixes and other enhancements

New in IBM Lotus Symphony Beta 3 (Dec 27, 2007)

  • In Beta 3, We added graphic, shape and page properties which will be extensively used in presentation editor.
  • We added shortcut key "F5" for starting screen show, which conforms to the habit of most users. Moreover, "Shift F5" is added to enable user to start screen show from the current page.
  • Auto-save feature is now available in Beta 3. The interval of auto-saving can be set in "File->Preferences->File Supervision". Now we needn't to worry about that our work isn't saved when accident happens to our computer. What's more, even if exception occurs, Symphony still can recover the document to the status that was auto-saved last time.
  • Symphony now can export a presentation as HTML or JPEG format. This feature is convenient to share presentation to those who have no presentation editor.
  • In Beta 3, user can import an external file into his spreadsheet through "Manipulate->Import External Data->From File". The supported external file formats are formatted text file ( *.csv and *.txt ), ODF spreadsheet file ( *.ods ) and Microsoft Excel file ( *.xls ).
  • Performance is always one of the issues that users care most. We made performance improvement for action of splitting a big paragraph in Lotus Document. The performance of this scenario improves up to 30% in some test cases.
  • We made improvement to the installation process.
  • Build to build upgrade is supported in Beta 3. That means if you want install Beta 3, you don't need to uninstall the old one manually.
  • Accessibility support of the windows installer. Install panels high contrast display, keyboard navigation and accessibility software such as JAWS are supported.
  • Help is enhanced in Beta 3 too. Now we can search topics which are not listed in the table of content.
  • Last but not least, we have added some enhancement to the Symphony website. You can now add comments to a Team Blog or a Buzz entry. You can also invite a friend to use Symphony by sending an email from the Symphony website.