Think-cell chart

Product Information

think-cell chart is a powerful charting package that integrates seamlessly with PowerPoint and can be individually customised to respect yet strengthen your company's corporate design. With a minimum of manual adjustments, you get accurate, well-laid-out and standard-conformant charts. Furthermore, with think-cell chart even occasional users can create and change charts 3-5 times faster than any PowerPoint expert without this product.

Features

Stacked column chart

think-cell chart integrates smoothly into PowerPoint. You can simply access functionality by the think-cell toolbar, the circular context menu and direct mouse manipulations. You can build sophisticated stacked column charts using think-cell chart including a value axis, automatic column breaks, formatted numbers and a CAGR.

Excel link

think-cell chart comes with a full-fledged internal data sheet based on Excel. Yet more powerful is the smart Excel link. Using it you can create and update PowerPoint charts directly from your Excel data. The smart Excel link fosters consistency and correctness and helps you collaborate with your colleagues when doing complex analysis and visualisation.

Waterfall chart

You can easily create waterfall charts with think-cell chart. Simply put in the values to add. Positive values build up, negative values build down. 'e' calculates a subtotal. For additional flexibility, you can interactively reattach the reference connector of each segment to change the order of summation.

Gantt chart

think-cell chart is the only software that allows you to create complex timeline charts (also known as Gantt charts) directly in PowerPoint. As seen in the preview the chart is completely calendar-based and supports a variety of decorations and labels.

Marimekko chart

A Marimekko chart is a two-dimensional 100% chart, in which the width of a column is proportional to the total of the column's values. Data input is similar to a 100% chart, with data represented as either absolute values or percentages of a given total.

Butterfly bar chart

You can flip most charts to combine them. The preview illustrates how two charts can be adjusted to the same scale automatically. It also shows that all labels have the same functionality as PowerPoint textboxes. think-cell chart renders values depending on spreadsheet data (e.g., the average of all bars) using special placeholders similar to master slide page number placeholders.

Clustered column chart

Clustered charts in think-cell chart feature the same advanced options as stacked column and bar charts.

100% column chart

The think-cell chart data sheet is a full-featured Excel sheet. You can input either absolute values or percentages. To quickly mark elements of the same type, you can use the intelligent logical selection mechanism.

Pie chart

You can rotate and explode pie segments by simply dragging their handles to anchor points at 0, 90, 180 or 270 degrees.

Line chart

Create line charts with think-cell chart. Line charts can include advanced options such as automatic breaks, difference arrows and interpolation.

Scatter/bubble chart

With think-cell chart you can forget about labeling scatter and bubble charts by hand. This is done automatically – even with two independent labels per scatter point or bubble.

Area chart

Create area charts with think-cell chart. Plus take advantage of advanced options such as the customisation of axis tickmarks, axis range and grid lines.

100% area chart

think-cell chart increases the effectiveness of your work when working on 100% area charts. Just as in case of 100% column charts, you can freely decide whether to enter percentages or absolute values.

Benefits

Presentation-ready quality

Presentation quality suffers when time is scarce. But not with think-cell chart. It produces high-quality charts that are immediately ready-to-use in your presentations. think-cell are constantly improving output quality by incorporating customer feedback, ensuring that even difficult layout problems can be adequately solved without much user interaction.

Highest-possible efficiency

think-cell do not just claim that using think-cell chart makes you more efficient – they actually measured it! A recent study at one of the largest customers proved that even senior PowerPoint experts can realise an efficiency gain of a factor of 3 to 5 compared to their existing best practices.

Full compatibility

think-cell chart is completely integrated into your familiar working environment. It uses the same file formats as PowerPoint and Excel. If you share charts with others who do not use think-cell, they can still edit the charts as if you had made them with PowerPoint alone.

Ease of use

When introducing new software, training can be a major cost factor. Not so with think-cell chart. Instead of hiding features in dozens of menus, wizards, dialogs and property pages, they build on the simple concept of direct manipulation, making all functions available right with the objects that they apply to. With a few hours of hands-on experience, even novices become proficient think-cell chart users.

Fewer errors

In PowerPoint, the usual way of creating charts breaks the links in data representation. Copy/pasting data from Excel into PowerPoint works fine, but what if the Excel data changes? think-cell chart maintains all data links to Excel, and moves all chart features for you when data changes. This tight integration fosters consistency and prevents errors.

Smooth collaboration

Making complicated charts with PowerPoint is difficult, and many companies have graphics experts to turn paper sketches into PowerPoint slides. But sometimes inexperienced users need to edit slides themselves, and may break the best practices that graphics experts rely on. With think-cell chart, these problems are a thing of the past, because it enables everyone to quickly make standard-conformant edits.

System Req.

Supported platforms

• Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / 7 / 64-bit
• Office XP / 2003 / 2007 / 2010 / 64-bit