Upgrading embedded Lotus Symphony in the Lotus Notes Client  

If you're using Lotus Notes 8.5.1 FP5 or higher, or 8.5.2 , you can use the add-on installer to upgrade the embedded Symphony from version 1.3 to 3.0 plus the latest Fix Pack. Instructions are available at the following URL:

https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21501057

Note: Lotus Symphony 3.0 is already included with Lotus Notes 8.5.3.

The are numerous benefits and new features available in Lotus Symphony 3, including the following:

• Brand new sidebars containing enriched property sections and panels across different editors, with support of sidebar panel management to show or hide sidebar panels
• Ability to customize toolbar content and layout
• More template files
• Enabled file encryption and password protection with Microsoft Word and Excel files
• Enabled native nested tables support
• Enabled multi-page view layout support
• Support of Auto Text
• Extended maximum number of columns from 256 to 1024
• Text to column value convert support
• Detective function
• Solve equations and solver
• "What if" function
• Multi-monitor display support
• More presentation animation effects
• More page layouts
• Improved help content

For a complete list of new and enhanced features, please see the Release Notes - http://www-03.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony/help.nsf/ReleaseNotes