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Think-cell

Think-cell is an Office add-in that Wharton Computing has installed on all of the lab machines in Huntsman Hall at the request of students.

Think-cell

Think-cell is an Office add-in which makes the task of creating professional PowerPoint presentations easy and efficient.  It integrates seamlessly with PowerPoint helping you to visualize complex charts in your presentation within minutes.  Thousands of users in more than 1800 companies use think-cell on a daily basis to effectively illustrate their quantitative business data.

Creating data-driven charts in Microsoft PowerPoint is often painstaking and cumbersome.  Frequently used graphical elements are not integrated into the charts, automatic placement of labels does not work and some chart types are simply not available.  This results in large amounts of manual work and endless adjustments to graphical elements.  

The software product think-cell chart solves this problem.  It is a powerful charting package that integrates seamlessly with PowerPoint and can be individually customized to respect yet strengthen its users' corporate design.

With a minimum of manual adjustments, think-cell chart users get accurate, well-laid-out and standard-conformant charts.  Futhermore, with think-cell chart even occasional users can create and change charts 3-5 times faster than any PowerPoint expert without this product.  Think-cell chart offers many benefits and is extremely rich in features which gives it an edge over the standard chart creation abilities of Microsoft PowerPoint.     

Documentation and screen-casts

There is a searchable online documentation for detailed instructions to get started with think-cell chart.  With the help of various screen-casts, it is possible to create charts like waterfall, marimekko, Gantt, scatter, column, area and many more in a few minutes.  Think-cell is an Office add-in which integrates seamlessly with PowerPoint and helps you to visualize complex charts within minutes.  It is used by all major consulting firms on a daily basis.  Think-cell is available free to Wharton students and faculty members in our lab environment.  Refer to the online documentation, screen-casts, and knowledgebase to get started with think-cell.  

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  • Topic #: 632-5336
  • Date Created: 8/30/2011
  • Last Modified Since: 3/14/2012
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