JeffOffice 0.27.1 (beta)

JeffOffice in Russian, Indonesian, and Ukrainian.

Every app

• Three new languages: all four apps and their Help are now in Russian, Indonesian, and Ukrainian. They follow your computer's language, or choose one in File > Options > General > Display language.

Also

• Translations for the Help pages added in 0.27.0, in Russian and Indonesian.

JeffOffice 0.27.0 (beta)

Grammar checking in JeffWrite, captions for videos in JeffDeck, barcodes from your data, and spelling in Russian, Indonesian, and Ukrainian.

Every app

• Spelling in three more languages: Russian, Indonesian, and Ukrainian, as you type and in the spelling check.

JeffWrite

• Grammar checking for English text: a blue dotted line marks clear mistakes, such as a repeated word ("the the"), "a" or "an" before the wrong sound, "its" for "it's", "could of", and spaces in the wrong place. It runs on your own computer, in the background, and the Spelling pane (F7) goes through the grammar issues after the spelling. Turn it on or off with Review > Check Grammar as You Type.
• Barcode from Field in mail merge: each letter or label gets a barcode made from one of its columns, such as a part number or a book's ISBN.

JeffDeck

• Captions for videos: Insert Captions on the Playback tab adds captions from a WebVTT (.vtt) file, one for each language, and Remove Captions takes them away. They show over the bottom of the video in the slide show and are kept in the .pptx file.

JeffCrunch

• Barcodes From Cells: a barcode for each filled cell you select, in a column next to them, for a sheet of labels.

Linux

• A new home for the apt repository: apt.jeffoffice.com, which keeps the five newest versions, so you can go back one if you need to. Updating to 0.27 moves your setup to the new address by itself. The old address keeps working and keeps serving the newest version.

Also

• Usage statistics, for those who send them, now go to telemetry.jeffoffice.com. What's sent hasn't changed.
• Translations for the new and changed text.

JeffOffice 0.26.0 (beta)

Charts, equations, comments in JeffPub, spilling formulas in JeffCrunch, and a ribbon and keyboard you can set up yourself.

Every app

• Set up the ribbon: right-click it to hide, add, and reorder tabs and groups, or to add a command to the quick toolbar.
• Quick toolbar: Save, Undo, and Redo in all four apps, and a Quick Toolbar page in Options to choose its buttons.
• Shortcut keys: choose your own in Options, Customize the keyboard.
• Remove personal information on save: a box on the Info page takes names, company, and other personal details out of the file you save. The open file is never changed.
• Print: Printer Properties, paper choices, grayscale, last page first, and printing on both sides in reverse. JeffPub and JeffDeck gain selection, collate, and zoom.
• Selection Pane for showing, hiding, and naming objects (JeffPub, JeffDeck, and JeffWrite), and Full Screen (JeffPub and JeffDeck).
• One About page and one "Check spelling as you type" setting for all four apps.

JeffPub

• Comments on objects and on places of a page, with replies, a Comments pane, and Resolve.
• Insert Chart with a Chart tab, and Insert Equation.
• Passwords for .jpub files and for templates.
• Check Accessibility, now with contrast and reading order, and tagged PDFs with bookmarks.
• Go To (Ctrl+G).

JeffDeck

• Insert Chart, kept in .pptx files, and a Chart tab.
• Go To a slide, section, comment, or object.
• Check Accessibility, tagged PDFs with bookmarks, and PDF/A in Export to PDF.
• Compress Pictures, Paste Special and Keep Text Only, Share by email, New Window, and Switch Windows.

JeffWrite

• Tracking options: how changes are marked, the change bars, and moves.
• Keys for styles and symbols.
• Online Pictures and Compress Pictures, and the Selection Pane for floating objects.

JeffCrunch

• Spilling formulas: a formula that gives several values fills the cells beside it, with A1# to refer to the whole block, #SPILL! when something is in the way, and LET. Kept in .xlsx, .xls, and .ods files.
• Insert Equation over the cells, and a Symbol dialog.
• Charts and drawing objects are kept in .ods files.
• Compress Pictures, Online Pictures, and Text Art.

Linux

• The .deb sets up updates: installing the downloaded .deb now adds the JeffOffice apt repository, so later versions come with your system updates. It leaves an existing setup alone, and sudo apt purge jeffoffice takes it away again. To leave it out, see the Linux install guide.
• The snap is on the beta channel as well as edge: sudo snap install jeffoffice --beta.

Security

• The snap's sound and video: JeffDeck in the snap now plays sound and video with JeffOffice's own minimal FFmpeg 7.1.5, the same build and short list of decoders as the other downloads, instead of the KDE platform's own libraries. The decoders left out for security in 0.25.1 can't be reached there either.

Also

• Translations for the new and changed text.

JeffOffice 0.25.1 (beta)

A security update for all four apps, with a few fixes.

Security updates

• Qt 6.8.3 → 6.11.3, the toolkit the apps use for windows, text, pictures, and printing. It fixes:
  • CVE-2026-6210 (Qt SVG, rated 8.7 of 10): a crafted SVG picture could make an app read memory it shouldn't and crash.
  • CVE-2026-4775 (libtiff 4.7.0 → 4.7.2, in the TIFF picture reader, rated 7.8): a crafted TIFF picture could write past the end of a buffer.
  • CVE-2025-5683 (ICNS icon reader, rated 5.1): a crafted icon file could crash an app.
• FFmpeg, JeffDeck's sound and video: JeffDeck used the full FFmpeg 7.1 that comes with Qt, which reads hundreds of formats. It now uses its own build of FFmpeg 7.1.5 with only what a presentation needs: 111 decoders and file readers, such as AAC, MP3, AC-3, H.264, and MP4.
  • Left out entirely, so these can't affect JeffDeck: the TDSC, CFHD, DVB subtitle, MACE6, and AV1 decoders named in CVE-2026-65703, CVE-2026-70632, CVE-2026-70628, CVE-2026-66039, and CVE-2026-30997 (rated 7.5 to 8.7).
  • FFmpeg 7.1.5 itself fixes CVE-2025-22921, CVE-2026-8461, and CVE-2026-96611 (an overflow in the MP4 reader).
  • This applies to Windows, the Mac, the .deb, and the AppImages. In the snap, sound and video come from its KDE platform.

JeffDeck

• The Insert dialogs offer only the sound and movie formats JeffDeck plays. A movie whose sound JeffDeck can't play now says so when you insert it.
• Charts in OpenDocument presentations show their gridlines every time. Before, they could appear or disappear from one opening to the next.

JeffCrunch

• When a workbook opens in a window of its own, the Open page closes.
• Clear Print Area works right after you save.

Every app

• Underlines are drawn where they were before the toolkit update, including under a tab at the end of a line.
• Translations for the new and changed text.

JeffOffice 0.25.0 (beta)

Every app can save a PDF with a password and print on both sides by hand. JeffCrunch gets automatic recovery, spelling as you type, and AutoCorrect in cells, and JeffDeck and JeffPub get the File > Info page.

Every app

• PDFs with a password: when you save as PDF, choose Encrypt with a password. You can set a password to open the PDF and an optional second password that controls printing, copying, and changing it. PDFs with a password also open in each app, for example a picture inserted from one.
• Print on both sides by hand: on a printer that prints only one side, the app prints every other page, then asks you to turn the stack over and put it back. A new Sides choice on the Print page sets one side, both sides, or both sides by hand, and the app remembers it.
• AutoCorrect: one set of rules for all four apps, and web addresses you type become links.
• Spanish: spelling for 19 more Spanish-speaking regions, such as Mexico and Argentina, and an interface in the Spanish of Spain.
• Security updates: newer versions of the libraries that draw PDFs, compress files, and check spelling, each with known security problems fixed.

JeffCrunch

• Automatic recovery: JeffCrunch saves a recovery copy as you work and offers it back after a crash, without pausing your typing.
• Spelling as you type: misspelled words in cells are underlined. To turn it off, clear the "Check spelling as you type" option.
• AutoCorrect in cells, with the same rules as the other apps.
• Charts in .xls workbooks are read and are kept when you save as .xlsx.
• A text file whose cells start with = keeps them as text, unless you ask for formulas.

JeffDeck and JeffPub

• File > Info: document properties, Mark as Final, Inspect, and Version History on one page. In JeffDeck it also sets a password for the file, and the file's versions, copies, and backups keep that password.

Fixes

• Firmer limits on damaged and hostile files in all four apps, so they open as far as they can instead of stalling or crashing.
• Typed formulas nested deeper than 64 levels are refused, as other spreadsheet programs do.
• Closing JeffWrite's window while it asks for a password stops opening the file.
• Translations for the new commands, dialogs, and Help pages.

JeffOffice 0.24.0 (beta)

Every app starts faster, JeffWrite and JeffCrunch draw the diagrams a file keeps, and JeffWrite gets linked text boxes and drawing groups. JeffCrunch adds split panes, threaded comments, Move Chart, and more pivot table tools.

Every app

• Faster start: the window shows before the bundled fonts load and before the file you opened is read, and ribbon tabs are made when you first show them.
• Diagrams: a file's diagrams are drawn from the drawing the file keeps, in JeffWrite and JeffCrunch as in JeffDeck.
• Safer with damaged and hostile files: firmer limits on zip packages, saved files with very many parts, and formulas that do very much work, so such files open as far as they can instead of stalling.

JeffWrite

• Linked text boxes: text flows from one box to the next, across pages, with Create Link and Break Link.
• Drawing: grouped shapes that move with the line as one object, picture fills, Text Art, drawing canvases, and connectors.
• Go Back returns to the places you edited, even after more edits.

JeffCrunch

• Split panes: View > Split, and split boxes at the ends of the scroll bars, each pane scrolling on its own.
• Threaded comments: reply to a comment on the Review tab or in the Comments pane; files keep their threads and the people in them.
• Pivot tables: Calculated Item, Solve Order, field buttons on pivot charts, and New Table Style.
• Charts: Move Chart to a new chart sheet and back onto a worksheet, and error bars on area charts with custom amounts from cells.
• Formulas: Next Error and Previous Error, Edit Links that update values and change a source, and Error Checking for formulas in unlocked cells.
• Custom views, subtotal page breaks, and locked scenarios.
• Calculation is faster on workbooks with many lookups, and a workbook with more to work out than one calculation allows keeps the values it had and finishes on the next change.

JeffPub

• Linked text boxes that wrap around each other no longer slow the program down.
• A publication with very many tab stops in one paragraph saves correctly.

JeffDeck

• The slide sorter stops scrolling by itself, and rehearsal times start on a new slide.

Fixes

• Grid lines are one screen pixel wide at 125% and 150% display scaling.
• Undo and Redo wait while a large change is going in, and Save and Close wait during Goal Seek and Scenario Summary.
• A recovery copy is written before the old one is removed.
• Translations for the new commands, dialogs, and Help pages.

JeffOffice 0.23.0 (beta)

JeffWrite gets drawing, charts, equations, and a much stronger Find; JeffCrunch gets shapes, pictures, scenarios, and more chart tools. Every app now also comes in American, British, Canadian, and Australian English.

JeffWrite

• Drawing: shapes and text boxes, elbow and curved arrows, crop to a shape, rotate, align and distribute, gradient fills, and the Draw Table pen and Eraser on the pages.
• Charts and equations: a file's charts are drawn with their colors and borders, with tabs to change them, and equations get accents, matrices, a gallery, and editing in place.
• Find: match counts and highlights on the pages, Advanced Find, wildcards, special codes for breaks, fields, and notes, groups in Replace, and Find Next and Replace that reach headers, footers, notes, and table cells.
• Navigation: results by heading and by page, and headings that collapse and expand on the page.
• Styles: Manage Styles sets the recommended, hidden, and locked styles, their order, and imports or deletes them.
• Views: Web Layout wraps the text to the window, a vertical ruler shows the page margins, and New Window, Arrange All, and Side by Side work for documents.
• Web pages: open a web page with its pictures, links, and lists, and save as a web page, a filtered web page, or a single file.
• Tables: text turned to read from the top down or bottom up, text wrapped around a table, and Delete Cells, Shift Left.
• Editing: a mini toolbar over selected words, a Paste Options button after a paste, smart cut and paste that fixes the spaces, and the five fonts you chose last at the top of the font list.
• Page setup and printing: settings that apply from a point forward, envelope paper sizes, several pages on one sheet of paper, odd or even pages only, and PDF/A-1b export.
• More: a table of figures from a paragraph style, alignment tabs in headers and footers, Bring Forward and Send Backward for pictures, and hyphenation of words in capitals.
• New documents use A4 paper outside the United States and Canada, matching the computer's region.

JeffCrunch

• Shapes and pictures: Insert Picture, Shapes, Text Box, and Icons, with Picture Format and Shape Format tabs, Shape Styles, grouped shapes, gradient fills, and a Selection Pane that lists, picks, and reorders them.
• Charts: error bars, drop lines, high-low lines, up/down bars, display units on an axis, data labels taken from cells, and a Chart Filters button that leaves series out and keeps that in the file.
• Formulas: LET, CELL, INFO, and FILTERXML, Trace Error, Apply Names, Calculate Before Save, a sortable Names list, and scenarios that follow inserted and deleted cells.
• Data: open a web page's tables as a workbook, fixed-width text import, Paste Link, Paste as Hyperlink, and a calculated field for pivot tables.
• Borders and grid: Draw Border, Draw Border Grid, Erase Border, and a color for the gridlines.
• Protection: ranges people may edit in a protected sheet, which move with inserted and deleted rows, columns, and cells.
• Printing: scale to a paper size, a preview of the sheet, odd or even pages only, and several pages on one sheet of paper.
• Check Accessibility now finds low-contrast text, merged cells, unclear link words, blank layout cells, and the reading order.
• Options: AutoComplete, the fill handle, decimal places, and showing or hiding zeros on a sheet.

Every app

• English variants: American, British, Canadian, and Australian English for the menus and Help, chosen from your computer's settings or in Options.
• About lists the third-party software each app uses.
• Options: remove personal information from a file's properties when saving.

Fixes

• On Windows, JeffWrite's ruler now lines up with the page when the window opens or changes size.
• A blue outline no longer appears above and below the pages in JeffWrite, or around the sheet in JeffCrunch, when the window changes size.
• Chart axis unit names follow the interface language.
• Translations for the new commands, dialogs, and Help pages.

JeffOffice 0.22.0 (beta)

JeffWrite gets an outline, more views, and new ways to save and share; JeffCrunch gets version history, an email export, and more pivot table and chart tools. JeffPub is now optional in the Windows setup.

JeffWrite

• Views: an Outline view (move and edit headings, with Enter, Tab, and Shift+Tab), Draft, Read Mode, Split (a second pane on the same document), and page movement side to side or top to bottom.
• File: version history kept on this computer, a gallery of twelve built-in templates, reopening where you stopped editing, and a question before a save would lose parts of a file.
• Save and share: save .rtf, save .docm and .dotm with their macros kept, open and save .txt in many encodings, make an email file with the document or a PDF of it, PDF export with bookmarks from your headings and a choice of pages, and printing both sides by hand.
• Print preview with one, two, or four pages, and page ranges by section.
• Headers and footers: designs, page number formats, document information, and a date.
• Formatting: character shading and borders, watermarks, drop caps, paragraph spacing choices, and hyphenation settings.
• Help tab with shortcuts and what's new, Edit Field on a field's right-click menu, the section number in the status bar, and line counts in Word Count.
• Options: Save, Display, and Advanced pages, with your choice of measurement units.

JeffCrunch

• File: version history kept on this computer, a gallery of built-in templates with a picture of each, an email file with the workbook or a PDF of it, the whole workbook as PDF/A, Check Compatibility before an .xls copy, Open and Repair for a damaged .xls, and printing several sheets, or only the selection, at once.
• Pivot tables: Recommended Pivot Tables, Show Values As rank and percent of the parent row or column, and Show Report Filter Pages.
• Charts: a logarithmic axis, Save as Picture, alt text and names for charts, pictures, and shapes, and chart templates (.crtx).
• Formulas and Data: Error Checking, Evaluate Formula, Watch Window, Goal Seek, Subtotal, Advanced Filter, Circle Invalid Data, and Flash Fill (Ctrl+E), which fills a column from a few examples.
• Home: a paste menu with every Paste Special choice, Copy as Picture, and Delete Cell Style.
• Info: Protect Sheet and Protect Workbook Structure cards, and Inspect Workbook now finds hidden rows and columns, headers, and footers.
• Options: the font, size, and number of sheets for new workbooks.

Windows setup

• JeffPub is now a choice in setup, like the other apps, and starts ticked. Unticking an app in an update removes it, its shortcuts, and its file types, and keeps its settings.

Fixes

• An .xlsx copy of an old workbook no longer holds names or page breaks the format refuses, so other spreadsheet programs open it.
• A plain .txt file opens at once when its encoding is clear.
• Translations for the new commands, dialogs, and Help pages.

JeffOffice 0.21.0 (beta)

JeffWrite and JeffCrunch take a big step toward 1.0: tables, references, mail merge, pivot tables, conditional formatting, about 250 new functions, and Undo that reaches past a save.

JeffWrite

• Tables: table styles with our own names, column widths as a percent, Convert Text to Table, Sort inside a table, and a mouse that grabs a border only when you mean it.
• References: tables of contents, footnotes and endnotes, captions, citations and a bibliography, an index, and a table of authorities.
• Mailings: mail merge from a list, with preview, merge fields, and highlighting.
• Home and Review: Change Case, Sort, paste choices, a Tabs box, spacing and paragraph options, Word Count, proofing language, Thesaurus, Translate, Compare (tracked changes between two versions), Restrict Editing, and Lock Tracking.
• Insert, Design, Layout, and View: symbols, a blank page, links, Text from File, cover pages (three original designs), Date & Time, a horizontal line, columns with column lines, page borders and page color, line numbers, the Navigation pane, and Reveal Formatting.
• Check Accessibility lists what a screen reader would miss.

JeffCrunch

• Pivot tables: make them from a range or table, Drill Down and Drill Up, move a pivot table, slicers and timelines that filter it, and pivot charts.
• Charts: Format Axis (bounds, units, order, crossing, number format, ticks, and labels), data labels, Move Chart to another sheet, and sparklines with their own tab.
• Conditional formatting from the Home tab: highlight cells greater than, less than, between, or equal to a value, text that contains a word, duplicates, top and bottom items, and above or below average. Rules already in a file, including data bars, color scales, and icon sets, are kept exactly as they were.
• About 250 new functions in math, statistics, finance, engineering, and arrays.
• Data tab: Text to Columns and Remove Duplicates, with formulas that point at the moved cells following them.
• Undo reaches past a save: a deleted or moved chart or picture, and a cleared or added rule, can still be undone after you save.
• Home, View, and Page Layout: fill lists, moving cells by their border, Go To Special, cell styles, Full Screen, and more.

All four apps

• File > Info for JeffWrite and JeffCrunch: document properties, Mark as Final, password protection, and Inspect Document.
• Read-only files really are read-only, Save a Copy keeps a file's properties, and a backup copy is offered before saving over a file.
• Open and Repair for damaged files, with bounded memory.

Fixes

• Many limits keep a damaged or hostile file from freezing an app or using unbounded memory.
• JeffCrunch messages and labels that showed in English when another language was chosen are now translated.
• Formulas that could run for minutes (some finance and statistics functions with huge arguments) now stop quickly with an error, and several wrong results are corrected.

JeffOffice 0.20.1 (beta)

A new Windows installer, and JeffOffice's legal and privacy documents.

Windows installer

• A new, sharper installer. Its pictures and text are drawn for every display scale, from 100% to 250%, so nothing looks blurry on a high-resolution screen. The license reads as flowing paragraphs instead of broken lines.
• Updating from an earlier version keeps your settings and your choice about usage statistics.
• .ott templates now open in JeffWrite and .ots templates in JeffCrunch from Open with.
• No administrator rights are needed, as before.

Privacy and legal

• File > Options shows your install number, the random number your usage statistics are sent with, with a Copy button. To have our copy of your statistics deleted, send it to info@jeffoffice.com before you turn statistics off.
• The statistics server now deletes everything after 24 months.
• Options and the first-run question link to the privacy notice. The About page of each app links to the privacy notice, the Additional Terms that come with the GNU GPL, and the trademark policy.
• Every package now includes the license texts of the parts JeffOffice is built with (Qt, the Lucide icons, and the libraries that read .pub files), along with the GPL and the Additional Terms.
• Setting the environment variable JP_NO_TELEMETRY turns usage statistics off; Help now says so.
• Each release now lists a SHA-256 checksum for every download (SHA256SUMS), so you can check your copy.
• Help for JeffWrite and JeffCrunch has an Options page.