Creating slides in Microsoft PowerPoint is painstaking. Frequently used chart types and graphical elements are missing and there is nearly no automatic placement. Usually, you end up manually updating numbers and pushing around shapes.

think-cell is different. It is a powerful charting and layout software that automates your PowerPoint work and such improves slide creation efficiency and quality. Within minutes you get well-laid-out and great-looking slides.

Save 70% working time on charts

One of the leading consulting firms quantified think-cell's impact on chart production. One of their highly experienced graphics experts created and updated 48 typical slides using PowerPoint. The complete process took him over 10 hours.

The same graphics expert then received a short introduction to think-cell and started to create and update the slides using think-cell. He needed only 3 hours – saving 70% of net working time.

Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder

Are you always satisfied with the visual results you produce with PowerPoint? In particular at crunch time? If not, don't feel bad about it. Below is what people at leading consulting firms presented to their clients using just PowerPoint.

The second slide below shows what they created using think-cell to bring their own graphics knowledge to their users' desks. With think-cell you too will produce such beautiful results without any tweaking.

Don't worry about training

Tired of digging through dozens of toolbars, menus and property panes while looking for the right feature? think-cell avoids such clutter and has a simple user interface. The following three minute video shows you everything you need to know about using think-cell. And that's a promise!

Don't tie yourself to incompatible file formats

Other 3rd party software for PowerPoint often relies on non-native file formats for charts, such as Flash, images or completely proprietary formats. Using such software means that you put your digital assets at risk when you decide to stop using it or the vendor goes out of business. You won't be able to change hundreds, or even thousands of charts you created.

In contrast, think-cell uses only native PowerPoint charts and shapes for its output. Charts created with our software and shared with pure PowerPoint users remain data-driven and changeable. And should you ever decide to stop using think-cell, all your slides and charts will remain available and changeable as if you had created them with standard PowerPoint.

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A wealth of features

think-cell smoothly integrates into PowerPoint and brings you 40+ chart types, dozens of data-driven visual enhancements and other unique features, which you can find listed on this page.

Stacked column and bar chart

Stacked charts seem simple, but labeling, axes breaks and additional decorations can still take a lot of time. This video shows how think-cell helps in this regard and can therefore save you time even in case of common chart types.

Excel-based datasheet with formulas

Auto-placed segment & series labels

Column & bar totals

Percentages derived from absolute values

Individual series connectors

Two types of column & bar breaks

Baseline breaks

Baseline gaps

Absolute & percent difference arrows

CAGR arrows

Value lines

Series CAGRs

Automatic series & category sorting

"Other" series

Table-like layout of series legends

Smart text boxes

Using think-cell, you can quickly build up complex slides from text boxes. The big difference when using think-cell is that these text boxes not only snap to each other, but stay with each other, no matter what position or size they have to adopt to make their content fit. Such, the complete layout magically adjusts automatically to your text boxes and their content and creates a well-balanced slide.

Excel data links

think-cell comes with a full-fledged internal datasheet based on Excel. Even more powerful are smart Excel data links. Using them you can create and update think-cell charts in PowerPoint directly from your Excel data. Data links foster consistency and correctness and help you collaborate with your colleagues when doing complex analysis and visualization.

Corporate design (CD) based on style files

CD font, color & number format schemes

Co-authoring support for Sharepoint

One-click manipulation

Logical lasso to quickly select similar elements

All labels with full PowerPoint functionality

Multi-language interface

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