OnlyOffice is a free software office suite. It has online document editors, a platform for document management, corporate communication, mail and project management tools.
Recently the launch of the new version of the office suite OnlyOffice 7.2 was announced which comes with several small improvements and better support for Asian and African writing systems, as well as bug fixes and more.
only Office is an office suite formerly known as TeamLab, that allows you to create and edit documents, and create spreadsheets and presentations, all within a single application. Based on cloud operation, OnlyOffice also includes instant messaging and a forum-like communication interface.
As a reminder, OnlyOffice comes in two versions: a desktop version (OnlyOffice Desktop) and a version that can be used online (OnlyOffice Doc). While most updates can be found on both, some may be exclusive to one or the other.
Main news of Onlyoffice 7.2
In general, in this new version of OnlyOffice 7.2 that is presented fixed warning asking for user permission when executing queries from macros (CVE-2021-43446 fix), as well as vector text printing if there are no fountain fills on the page.
Another change that we can find is that se removed the minimum window size, breduced toolbar buttons due to text wrapping and the interface themes “Dark Contrast” and “System” were also integrated.
Moreover, the behavior of the icons in the toolbar has been updateds, also on the “Advanced Settings” page, plus added ability to disable alternative menu call in editors and hotkeys for “Paste Special”
Significantly improved work with text and fonts and added support for languages like Bengali and Sinhala (only in the document and presentation editor), while the color picker component has been changed and we can also find a completely redesigned search box in the editors
Added "Cut" and "Select All" buttons to the main toolbar next to "Copy" and "Paste", implemented the ability to insert spreadsheets as OLE objects, and added the ability to select an image as a bookmark for the list.
Of the specific changes of the elements of the suite, the most outstanding are the following:
- In the document editor:
- Implemented removal of headers and footers via toolbar
- Added a button to include the current title in the table of contents
- Added warning when updating table of contents if document does not contain it
- Navigation bar renamed to “Headings”
- Significantly improved "PDF", "DjVu" and "XPS" to "DOCX" conversions
- Added the ability to use Greek characters in numbered lists to open
- In the table editor:
- Added “Switch row/column” option in chart settings
- Added highlighting of line numbers when filtering data
- Removed “First Sheet” and “Last Sheet” buttons from bar status
- Implemented selection of copied range.
- Added setting to disable “Automatically resize columns on refresh”
- New system configuration dated 1904
- Presentation Editor
- Added “Custom Path” motion animation
- Added a new "Position" tab for graphical objects.
- Added VLC libraries for video and audio playback.
- Forms
- Added a search box
- Implemented cell width setting for forms with "Merge Symbols" option enabled
- Added configuration tag for fields
- New “Format” and “Allowed Characters” settings for fields
- New input fields “Phone number”, “Email address” and “Composite field”
Finally if you are interested in knowing more about it about this new release, you can check the details In the following link.
While for those interested in being able to install this new version, they can obtain the installer from the following link