Comparing Microsoft Office and Lotus Symphony Terms

Abstract

The following table lists Microsoft® Office features and their Lotus® Symphony™ equivalents.

Table 1. Comparison of Microsoft Office and Lotus Symphony terms

Microsoft Office	Lotus Symphony
AutoCorrect	Instant Corrections
AutoFilter (in Excel)	Instant Filter
AutoShapes	Drawing Objects
Click and Type	Direct Cursor
Compare and Merge Documents	Compare
Document Map	Navigator
Format Painter	Duplicate formatting
Formatting marks and hidden text	Nonprinting Characters, Hidden Paragraphs
Formula Auditing	Detective
Freezing panes (in Excel)	Freeze Window
Line and Page Breaks (default settings for hyphenation and pagination)	Text Flow
Markup	Tools - Reviewing - Show and View- Comments
Page setup	Layout > Properties > Page Properties For spreadsheets see also View - Page Break Preview
PivotTable	DataPilot table
Presenter View (in PowerPoint)*	Screen show settings See the Multiple displays options.
Scenarios	Solver
Track changes	Tools - Reviewing - Record
Validation	Validity
WordArt	Fontwork
Workbook	Spreadsheet
Worksheet	Sheet