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2. Installation and update

This chapter guides you through the installation of your personal copy of think-cell. If you are about to prepare the deployment of think-cell in a larger organization, you should skip this chapter and read the Deployment guide.

2.1 System requirements

On Windows, think-cell works with Microsoft Office 2010, 2013, 2016 or 2019 for Windows, with at least PowerPoint and Excel installed. think-cell also works with the fully installed versions and Click-to-Run versions of the desktop Office apps in Office 365. Windows on ARM is not supported.

On Mac, think-cell works with Microsoft Office 2016 (version 16.9 or later) or 2019 for Mac and macOS Sierra (10.12) or later. think-cell also works with the fully installed versions of the desktop Office apps in Office 365.

The installation of think-cell requires less than 200 MB of disk space.

2.2 First installation

2.2.1 Installing think-cell

Please close all instances of Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel before installing think-cell.

The installation can be started directly from the online source. When you download the setup file you may choose the following:

• Open in order to install the software directly from the internet.
• Save to Disk and start the installation by double-clicking the downloaded setup file.

On Windows, the installation wizard asks for the installation path, then copies the required files and updates the registry. If the installation wizard detects that you do not have sufficient privileges for a regular installation, a single-user installation will be performed. This means that think-cell can only be used with your current Windows login name.

think-cell uses the same language as in the menus and dialogs of your installation of Microsoft Office, provided that it is supported by think-cell (see Language for more details). If it is not yet supported, English is used.

2.2.2 Entering the license key

The public version of think-cell requires a valid license key, which expires after a fixed period of time. When you start PowerPoint with a think-cell trial version for the first time, or when your license key has expired, you need to enter a valid license key.

Please visit our website or contact our sales team to order such a license key for the first time or as a renewal of your existing deployment. In any case, you can always click the Cancel button and continue using PowerPoint without think-cell. To enter the license key later, click the

Activate think-cell button in the think-cell ribbon group.

The setting Automatically report any think-cell error and check if there is already an update for it controls error reporting (see Error reporting). We recommend to enable it to help us improve the software. No user data is included in the error report.

2.3 Automatic update

think-cell regularly checks online to see if a new release is available, and if so, attempts to download and install the updated installation file. The automatic download is subject to the following conditions:

• The check for a new release is performed once when PowerPoint or Excel is started with think-cell installed and enabled.
• The automatic download runs quietly in the background and only occupies unused bandwidth. If the internet connection is interrupted or there is other network traffic, the download is paused until the network is again available.

All files that are executed and installed by the automatic update are digitally signed by think-cell.

2.4 Troubleshooting

For latest information on known issues and workarounds please refer to our website at:

If you cannot find a solution in the knowledge base or this manual, feel free to contact our support team. Open the

More menu in the think-cell ribbon group and click on Request Support. Choose from the opening window whether you would like to attach certain slides to an email to think-cell’s support team. This often helps us to address your problem. After confirming with OK your e-mail application will open an email that is ready to be sent.

2.5 Error reporting

At think-cell we are committed to stability and robustness as key factors for the professional use of our software. When an error condition arises while you are using think-cell, the software automatically generates a report that helps us to understand the problem and fix it in the next release. The error report only contains information about the internal state of our software. No user data is included in the error report.

The software sends the error report encrypted. You might notice a short delay while an error report is being sent, but in most cases you can continue using think-cell as usual.

If an update that addresses the error you encountered is already available, it will be installed automatically.

For more information on think-cell’s automated error reporting refer to section Error reporting.

2.6 Temporarily deactivating think-cell

To quickly work around compatibility problems, or other issues arising from the use of think-cell, you have the option to temporarily deactivate think-cell without uninstalling the software.

More menu in the think-cell ribbon group in PowerPoint, there is an option called Deactivate think-cell . When you select this option, think-cell will be deactivated immediately. With think-cell deactivated, charts are presented as regular PowerPoint shapes. To re-enable think-cell, click the

Activate think-cell button in the think-cell ribbon group in PowerPoint. There is no need to close the PowerPoint application in order to switch between think-cell and plain PowerPoint.

Before you alter think-cell elements without think-cell, be aware of potential compatibility issues (refer to Exchanging files with PowerPoint).

Note: You do not need to deactivate think-cell in order to make your presentations accessible to coworkers or clients who may not have think-cell installed. Simply send them the same file you are working with – if think-cell is not installed, they will find a presentation with regular PowerPoint shapes.

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think-cell 10 now runs on macOS

Berlin, May 3, 2019

On May 3rd, think-cell , the leading provider of productivity software for Microsoft PowerPoint users, proudly announced that it has launched think-cell 10 , the first version of its signature software that empowers macOS users to create PowerPoint presentations with stunning charts and layouts in minutes.

«Today’s knowledge workers and presentation professionals are at home both on macOS and Windows, and we now support our users on both of their favorite platforms,» said Markus Hannebauer, think-cell co-founder and CEO. «In addition to supporting macOS, think-cell 10 comes in a fresh new look and brings many valuable new features.»

«Porting a complex Windows Office add-in to Office for Mac is a really challenging task and required years of development», said Arno Schödl, co-founder and CTO at think-cell . «We are extremely proud to have done just that without sacrificing functionality, allowing users to focus on communicating and implementing recommendations instead of pushing around shapes on macOS as well as on Windows.»

Now on macOS

After several years of development, we have achieved what no other company has done before – we have ported a complex Windows Office add-in to Office for Mac without sacrificing functionality! Your license for think-cell on Windows is also valid for macOS. think-cell 10 works with Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac version 16.9 or later, running on OS X Yosemite (10.10) or later.

With think-cell 10 , you can now choose your favorite working environment and have the same great user experience. The interface is exactly the same and all features are available.

User Interface

With think-cell now branching across multiple platforms we took the opportunity to refresh the user interface. Icons in the Elements menu and context menu have a fresh new look.

With one click, you can change the chart type from this row of icons.

In the Data Links dialog you can now also easily select all charts linked to a specific Excel source file, and update them with one click (see Data Links dialog).

New buttons in the contextual toolbar help you easily update and revert, as well as switch to automatic updates for a chart.

Selecting a series in the legend of a scatter or bubble chart highlights all points or bubbles of the series.

Same scale and axes

Setting charts to the same scale is now persistent. If the scale changes in one chart, all charts with the same scale will be updated. You can set charts to the same scale even when their axes are not displayed (see Same scale).

Using the same scale for multiple charts also works with axis breaks. Setting the same scale does not remove existing breaks, and adding an axis break to one chart will automatically add it to other charts using the same scale.

The X axes can also be set to same scale if they are value-based or date-based. For example, you can easily set two line charts to show the same years, even when the date range covered by the data is different (see Same scale).

Scatter and bubble charts now support same scale. You independently choose whether the X- or Y-axis should use the same scale.

Value axes support a reversed axis. Scatter and bubble charts support a numerically reversed axis. Column, clustered and area charts simply flip the chart. In a line chart with two axes, you can set one to a reversed order to highlight negative correlations (see Reversing the value axis).

Save and send slides

On Windows, you can use Gmail when sending slides instead of Outlook. To enable this, you set «think-cell Send With Gmail» as the default email program (see Save and send slides).

The «Save Slides. » command uses a dialog which includes your Quick Access folders. At the bottom of the dialog, you can choose which slides to include and whether date and time should be added to the filename.

When using «Save Slides. » and «Send Slides. «, the filename better represents your choices: If you choose to send the entire presentation, for example, the file name does not contain slides numbers.

Color and style

The font color of text in labels can be chosen and is not reset, even if the label background changes (see Font color).

The Load Style File command makes it easy to load previously used and default style files. Initially, it contains all styles included with think-cell for easy selection.

The color scheme for new charts is always taken from the think-cell style. The most recently used color scheme is now irrelevant when inserting a new chart. You can use a style file to set your preferred color scheme as the default (see Customizing think-cell).

Chart decorations

In the scatter chart, trendlines based on a power law, exponential or logarithmic relationship can be fitted to your data (see Trendline).

You can represent the numerical scale of your chart with only grid lines instead of an axis line, instead of showing both (see Value axis).

Create slides with text content based on JSON input while using the full power and flexibility of smart text fields. The new named text fields serve as placeholders in your automation templates (see Introduction to automation).

• You can run the JSON automation as a server (see Processing JSON data remotely).
• You can call the JSON automation process from the command line (see Using the JSON data to create a presentation).

About think-cell

think-cell was founded in 2002 in Berlin and is today the leading vendor of productivity software for professional PowerPoint users. Its software covers the complete process of presentation creation – from analysis and preparation of business data to the graphical rendering of qualitative and quantitative results. Most international business consulting firms, as well as a large number of the well-known industrial global leaders, are among think-cell’s customers.

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