Lotus Symphony is a richly-featured set of productivity tools that are intuitive and easy to use and provided at no charge. There are three applications that make up Lotus Symphony: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, Lotus Symphony Presentations.
Lotus Symphony puts you in charge take control over spiraling upgrade costs, ensure access to documents well into the future with new standard file formats (ODF), get more from your current investments with support for Microsoft Windows and Office file types.
Users can enjoy the easy-to-use interface and online community for templates, tips and support.
Businesses can control software acquisition and upgrade costs, provide ability to compatibility with Microsoft Office file formats, protect future access to documents with support for ODF and support a global workforce with Lotus Symphony's native language support for over 23 languages.
Developers can extend their applications with the power of Lotus Symphony through support for plug-ins and, when the Lotus Symphony editors inside Lotus Notes are used, rich composite applications.
Lotus Notes users can create, edit, and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with the integrated version of Lotus Symphony which is built into the Lotus Notes client user interface.
Lotus Symphony can now be extended with plug-ins to integrate and enhance a wide range of applications from IBM, partners and you.
Lotus Symphony is based on OpenOffice.org Technology and supports the ODF standard, ISO 26300.
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What's New in Symphony 1

Performance enhancements
Provided performance optimization options for starting up in the main page of Preferences settings.
Critical crash and freezing issues are fixed.
Optimized sidebar refreshing to decrease the flicker.
Significant performance improvement following areas:

* Spreadsheet performance for "undo" operation at subtotal.
* ODP files save performance.
* Redrawing a Presentations page.
* Creating a new document.
* Spell-checking performance in Presentations and Spreadsheets.
* Saving PPT files.
* Switching Presentations page view to sorter view.
* Triggering time of auto-recognizer.
* Interoperability with MS Office documents
* Added file format support for Microsoft PowerPoint .pps files, user can open and playback .pps files in Presentations.
* Improved support for Chart rendering function.
* In tables, the rotated texts are correctly displayed.
* Improved support for Positions of Text Boxes, Graphics, and Shapes.
* Improved support for position and style of numbering and bullets.
* Enhanced Data filter support on setting the data filter for several columns at the same time.
* Improve the stability when repeatedly opening/saving/closing Word documents.
* Enhanced placeholder support for presentation documents.
* Interoperability with OpenOffice.org documents
* The layout text object wrap are consistent between OpenOffice.org and Lotus Symphony.
* Tables created in Presentations are correctly displayed in OpenOffice.org.
* Interoperability with SmartSuite documents
* Added supports to load SmartSuite customer files.
* Improved support for graphic and layout.
* Usability enhancements in Presentations
* Added Page Thumbnails feature.
* Easy menu access to template functions.
* Numbering & bullets styles are changed for a better visual effect and user experience.
* Master page options are provided during page copying and pasting.
* Spell checking is fully supported in template files.
* Synchronized the settings between print dialog and handout printing.
* Usability enhancements in Spreadsheets
* Added Validity list function.
* Easy menu access to merging cells.
* Usability enhancements in Documents
* TOC is improved for better user experiences.
* Paragraph property settings are enhanced during copy and paste.
* Easy pop-up menu access to customizing numbering.
* Enhanced user behavior for Bullet Style and Heading Style overlapped settings.
* Usability enhancements in preference settings
* Default file type is configurable when creating new documents.
* Added preference setting for browser which allows user to select either the embedded browser or system browser to open embedded hyperlinks.

What can I do with IBM Lotus Symphony Documents?
Write a novel, write a business plan, keep a personal journal or just create a simple memo or letter. IBM Lotus Symphony Documents lets you create, edit, share, and save word processing documents. Launch Lotus Symphony Documents from the Lotus Symphony home page, which lets you create and edit all your content types from a single, tabbed window on your desktop.

Features
1. Easy to create documents with predefined document templates
2. Fast formatting with predefined styles for paragraphs, characters, and headings
3. Contextual toolbars and editing menus
4. Inline spell checking and correction
5. Graphics that you can insert to create a variety of tables, charts, diagrams, and drawn items
6. Automatic creation of a table of contents, footnotes, indexes and footers and headers
7. Support for a variety of file types, including Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite
8. Export documents to Adobe PDF for easy sharing

What can I do with IBM Lotus Symphony Presentations?
Close a sale, tell a story, or defend your dissertation. IBM Lotus Symphony Presentations lets you create graphic presentations that can be shared with audiences via a slide show mode. You can create presentations from scratch or use the presentation templates for a variety of looks. Launch Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets from the Lotus Symphony home page, which lets you create and edit all your content types from a single, tabbed user interface.

Features:
* Easy to create presentations from scratch or from preconfigured presentation masters
* Single, tabbed user interface to launch all Lotus Symphony applications and access all open document types
* Easy to manage formatting for slides, text boxes, drawing objects and graphics
* Slide show flow and timing control
* Support for charts, tables, drawing objects, and graphics
* Animation for graphics and slide transition effects
* Support for a variety of file types including Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite
* Export documents to Adobe PDF or HTML format for easy sharing
* What can I do with IBM Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets?
* Calculate a mortgage, create an income statement, or calculate your GPA. IBM Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets lets you create, edit, share, and save a variety of spreadsheets. You can create new documents, import existing documents, or choose from a set of document templates. Contextual toolbars configured to the appropriate spreadsheet editing task display as you navigate the various parts of your work.

Lotus Symphony Features:
* Easy to create new spreadsheets or use built-in spreadsheet templates
* Single, tabbed user interface to launch all Lotus Symphony applications and access all open document types
* Large library of mathematical functions that can be applied to cells
* Robust formatting of text, cells, and spreadsheets
* Formula evaluator to edit complex equations used in spreadsheets
* Data table offers pivot table functionality
* Support for tracking changes as you edit and revise spreadsheets
* Support for a variety of file types including Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite
* Export documents to Adobe PDF for easy sharing

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this office suite software.