Lotus Symphony 3 Beta demos show off cool new features

Jack Downing, Lotus Symphony ID architect  |  Jul 12, 2010 10:12 PM
Profile image for Jack Downing Symphony 3 beta continues to show off great new Lotus Symphony features such as adding animation effects, VBA interoperability, sort data in spreadsheets, the introduction of new templates to create newsletters, proposals, and purchase orders. A new properties panel lets you set properties, apply templates, insert graphics, and more.

The Symphony ID team recently completed 9 new videos that help you learn new tasks and see these new features for yourself:

1. Creating a newsletter, a proposal, and a purchase order from templates
2. Defining print range
3. Saving spreadsheets in other formats with encryption
4. Setting text, page, slide layout, and cell properties using the Properties panel
5. Sorting data using the instant filter
6. Using enhanced header and footer in Lotus Documents
7. Using the tab key
8. VBA Interoperability
9. Adding Video or Sound to a Lotus Symphony Presentation

Check out the  new videos/demos for Symphony 3.0 beta in the Symphony wiki:
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2 Comments

  • zulu ippe said on Jul 29, 2010 8:10 PM:

    the symphony 3 beta home page loads sluggishly in snow leopard, comparatively speaking. i wonder if it was coded in true 64 bits. perhaps, we are so used to high speed that any tardiness would seem magnified. but was it written in 64?

    i would give up my lunch on a hungry day for lotus, in preference for anything microsoft. this is a mindset being shared by so many of us, on the mac side, that to enunciate it seems trite and banal. i just downloaded the beta and noted the speed degradation when compared to native mac apps. perhaps, your programmers can do something to make a good thing perfect. yeah? <>

  • Mark said on Oct 7, 2010 4:53 PM:

    I recently had to edit a presentation in Powerpoint, and after using Symphony version 3 on my windows laptop for the past few weeks I must say that it was not a pleasurable return. Far too many clicks to do simple things.

    I've now changed all associations on my laptop for office extenstions from Microsoft to Symphony.

    Can't wait to use the released product.
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