{"id":49863,"date":"2025-10-16T15:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=49863"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:59:07","slug":"onlyoffice-desktop-editors-9-1-released-with-new-pdf-editing-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/10\/onlyoffice-desktop-editors-9-1-released-with-new-pdf-editing-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"OnlyOffice Desktop Editors 9.1 Released with New PDF Editing Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

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OnlyOffice Desktop Editor, the free open-source offline use office suite, release new 9.1 version yesterday.<\/p>\n

The new release updated the PDF editing support with new tools, and improved formulas in sheets. It now automatically recover unsaved documents due to app crashes.<\/p>\n

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First, in PDF editing mode, it introduced new Redact<\/b> feature, allowing to hide sensitive or confidential information.<\/p>\n

The Redact tab includes “Mark for Redaction”, “Redact Pages”, and “Find & Redact” options, allowing user to select rectangle area in PDF content, choose PDF pages, or find all matched keywords, then use “Apply Redactions” option to hide them.<\/p>\n

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In “Comment” tab, there are new annotation tools added, allowing to draw rectangle, circle, arrow, and connected lines on your PDF, with custom color and size.<\/p>\n

And in “Insert” tab, it added new SmartArt<\/code> and Chart<\/code> option, allowing to insert many new objects into your PDF.<\/p>\n

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The Spreadsheet editor now provides updated LOOKUP, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and XLOOKUP formulas that now deliver up to 4x faster exact and linear searches.<\/p>\n

It also added support for date filters in pivot tables, dedicated “Table Design” tab with formatted table settings, and added Left-to-Right<\/code> and Right-to-Left<\/code> options in Home tab to easily switch text direction in cells.<\/p>\n

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The release also improved the Templates support. It now includes many templates in local computer as well as tons of templates in cloud.<\/p>\n

Clicking on a cloud template no longer open it directly in editor, instead it shows a popup with bigger preview with description as well as file type and size, making clearer whether it’s what you want before downloading it.<\/p>\n

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For Windows 10 and higher, it now displays the notifications about file associations and updates via system toast notifications instead of modal windows.<\/p>\n

For macOS, it finally added the new options to insert audio and video files in Presentation, as well as built-in media player to play videos in your slides.<\/p>\n

Other changes in the release include:<\/p>\n