What's new in Essential Office 2.9.1
May 6, 2024
- Miscellaneous tweaks and updates
New in Essential Office 2.9 (Feb 14, 2024)
- Updated core components
- Various bug fixes and code improvements
New in Essential Office 2.8 (Nov 16, 2023)
- This is the first multilingual release - interface has now been mostly translated to French (FR), German (DE), Hungarian (HU) and Spanish (ES) - this is a work in progress so if you have any comments on translations or would like to see other languages then please get in touch
New in Essential Office 2.7.4 (Oct 31, 2023)
- Now remembers last used Word Processor Document View e.g. Simple View, Draft View or Print Layout
New in Essential Office 2.7.3 (Oct 14, 2023)
- Fixed compatibility mode issue when opening .docx created with Essential Office in Microsoft Word Visibility of Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar is now saved between sessions
New in Essential Office 2.7.2 (Sep 19, 2023)
- Window size and position saved and restored even for multi-monitor setups (Ctrl+Shift to override restore)
- Previously configured options should now be preserved when you upgrade to a new version
- Option to set default Page Colour and Font Colour for Word Processor added
New in Essential Office 2.7.1 (Sep 17, 2023)
- Added option to set a default calendar to load at start-up
- Various bug fixes
- Now also available to download as a portable app (.zip format)
New in Essential Office 2.7 (Sep 12, 2023)
- Performance improvements - components loaded on demand rather than on start-up to improve speed
- Import shapes option added to Diagram tool
- Option to disable automatic Dark Mode switching
- Improved colour scheme for Spreadsheet in Dark mode
- Option to choose default start-up application e.g. Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Diagram or PDF Viewer
- Custom dictionary support now for all languages not just English
- Various bug fixes
New in Essential Office 2.6.1 (Sep 1, 2023)
- Close button added to PDF viewer
- French, German and Spanish dictionaries added to Word Processor (default can be set in Options)
New in Essential Office 2.5.0 (Aug 29, 2023)
- Updated core components
- Various bug fixes and code improvements
- Now runs as 64-bit on supported devices to improve performance
- Export now supports tagged (accessible) PDF for screen readers and other assistive technologies
- New settings pane for Spreadsheet print preview
- Add picture or text watermarks to Word Processor documents
- New Shrink to Fit alignment option in Spreadsheet automatically reduces text size to fit a cell
- Rotated text support in Word Processor table cells
New in Essential Office 2.4 (Aug 18, 2023)
- Updated core components
- Maps functionality removed
New in Essential Office 2.3 (Aug 18, 2023)
- Major update of components with lots of new features in Word Processor, Spreadsheet and Diagram Creator
New in Essential Office 2.2 (Aug 18, 2023)
- Multiple fixes and updates to dependencies, new map features added
New in Essential Office 2.1 (Aug 18, 2023)
- Various internal updates and fixes, and new installer
New in Essential Office 2.0 (Aug 18, 2023)
- Fully updated with new user interface, and now includes diagram creator and map components