The latest update to the office suite introduces ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.1, a new installment of the 9 series Productivity-focused app that touches all apps: documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and PDFs. The team announces cross-platform performance and stability improvements along with hundreds of corrections that underpin daily experience.
Beyond the previous redesign and AI features of the previous version, this release is focused on practical changes: a most capable PDF editor, faster spreadsheet calculations, new supported formats, and tweaks that make collaboration and administration easier in professional environments.
ONLYOFFICE PDF Editor 9.1: redaction, annotations, and visual elements
The most striking novelty is Edit, the feature to permanently delete sensitive content. From a dedicated tab, you can select text, search for terms, or choose entire pages to hide information that shouldn't be exposed on the screen. Final PDF.
New ones are also coming annotation tools with customizable shapes (rectangles, circles, arrows, and connected lines). This improvement makes it easier to work together by allowing you to highlight snippets, add visual comments, and adjust color and size for more comfortable review and collaborative manner..
The editor adds the possibility of inserting charts and SmartArt elements directly into the files, expanding the scope to create more illustrative documents without leaving the PDF. As a workflow-oriented extra, direct conversion of PDF to TXT to extract only the text when necessary.
Spreadsheets in ONLYOFFICE 9.1: More speed, control, and clarity
On the data side, ONLYOFFICE 9.1 speeds up searches: the functions LOOKUP, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and XLOOKUP They run up to four times faster, handle mixed sets better, and reduce memory usage. In addition, formula readability has been improved, highlighting the active arguments when writing to minimize errors.
The editor allows you to toggle the LTR↔RTL text direction at the cell level, which is useful in right-to-left languages. Along with this, everyday interactions have been polished, such as rename sheets with double click to streamline tasks that are often repeated.
- A specific tab of Design Table makes it easy to apply styles, manage headers, and adjust the formatting of structured tables.
- Pivot tables incorporate filters by date, simplifying time series analysis and trend tracking.
- Compatibility with interactive content controls (lists, checkboxes, rotary buttons, scroll bars), making sheets more dynamic.
Common improvements across the suite
In terms of compatibility, the suite opens the door to HEIF images and documents HWPML, in addition to incorporating direct conversions of PPTX to TXT. For the academic and technical field, the import of MathML for formulas.
The graphics area also evolves: the option of separate segments in pie and ring diagrams, and you can work with linked or embedded external data. The new chart editor allows you to open and edit Embedded XLSX directly within documents and presentations.
Collaboration gets practical tweaks with a dashboard that improves the displaying comments, clearly distinguishing the resolved from the open ones on the side. In presentations, all the options of the slide master are now grouped into a separate tab for a more accessible global style.
In the document editor, the handling of Content Controls with sections and jumps, which favors more complex structured templates. This is in addition to general stability improvements and performance that are noticeable in all applications.
Administration and deployment
For those managing server installations, ONLYOFFICE Docs Enterprise incorporates a administration panel with centralized status and configuration, facilitating monitoring and maintenance in multi-user environments.
The nucleus on-premises, desktop editors and mobile clients receive these capabilities, reinforcing consistency across platforms. In addition, localization is expanded with formula translations into Serbian (Latin and Cyrillic) and traditional Chinese, bringing the suite closer to more international teams.
Availability and update
Anyone who wants to try or upgrade to version 9.1 can go to the official site to download the appropriate version. Before jumping in, it's a good idea to review the release notes, back up and, if possible, validate changes in a test environment to ensure organizational continuity.
With this release, ONLYOFFICE consolidates a practical course: a More powerful PDF, more responsive sheets, expanded compatibility, and IT-focused management tools, all backed by performance improvements and over 500 fixes that improve the everyday experience.
