think-cell
What is think-cell?
The presentation suite think-cell serves a single purpose – creating business presentations. It is a complete set of cutting-edge productivity tools, each unrivaled in its scope of application. It is the leading tool for consulting companies and other professional services firms. The software suite comes with three leading tools described below. In order to find out more about the product and its benefits please visit www.think-cell.com.
think-cell chart
Creating data-driven charts in Microsoft PowerPoint is 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 of graphical elements.
think-cell chart solves this problem. It is a powerful charting software that seamlessly integrates with PowerPoint, brings dozens of helpful unique features and can be individually customized to strengthen your company's corporate design. With a minimum of manual work, you get accurate, well-laid-out and great-looking charts. Furthermore, with think-cell chart even occasional users can create and change charts 3-5 times faster than any PowerPoint expert.
think-cell round
When data is compiled for a report or PowerPoint presentation rounding summations in Excel is a frequent problem. It is often desirable but difficult to achieve that rounded totals match the total of the rounded addends.
think-cell layout
Did you ever ask yourself why laying out presentation slides is so time-consuming? One main problem is that you have to carefully adjust the position of every element with the mouse, resize boxes or arrows to make text fit inside or next to them or adjust table column widths by hand. When you make a change to your slide, for example removing or adding an element or editing the text, you often need to readjust the whole layout to make everything fit again.
think-cell layout will solve this problem with its revolutionary smart-grid user interface. It will provide you with a library of presentation elements exactly matching the professional's presentation needs. You simply drag these smart-elements onto the slide and snap them into an adaptive grid. All elements adjust their size and position automatically according to their content, yet they maintain the layout you defined.
What are the main benefits?
Ease of use and full integration into Microsoft Office
think-cell is built on the simple concept of direct manipulation, making all functions available right with the objects to which they apply. In addition, all familiar PowerPoint and Excel features remain available. With a few hours of hands-on experience, anyone can become a proficient think-cell user.
Extensive automation to foster efficiency and quality
A study proved that even a senior PowerPoint expert can realize an efficiency gain of a factor of 3 to 5 when using think-cell compared to the existing best practice. Still, think-cell produces high-quality slides that are immediately ready to use in your presentations. So next time everything is in a rush, your audience will never notice.
Full compatibility with all Microsoft Office file formats
think-cell is 100% compatible with the file formats of Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel. All charts and layouts are created as combinations of PowerPoint shapes and Microsoft Graph charts. If you pass slides on to others that do not use think-cell, they can still edit them as if you had made them with PowerPoint.
Improved collaboration
Many companies have marketing or graphics experts to create complex slides. But sometimes inexperienced users need to edit slides themselves and may break the best practices that experts rely on. Charts may be ungrouped and scheme colors replaced by custom ones. With think-cell, these problems are a thing of the past because it is so easy to use that everyone can make standard-conformant edits.
How can you obtain think-cell?
Active students and staff can purchase think-cell for non-commercial, academic purposes. By installing the software you accept the license agreement (PDF, 141 KB).
In particular, you agree to the following terms of use:
You are only allowed to use the software within the context of your academic activities (e.g. research, seminar-, bachelor- and master theses) and only if the projects do not serve any commercial purpose
The software must not be passed on to third parties
The right of use expires when leaving the university (i.e. completion of studies, unenrollment or termination of employment)
You have to mention the use of think-cell in publications and presentations if its content (or parts of it) was created with think-cell
WU faculty, staff and students can obtain a license through the Controlpanel application:
In the menu, select > Software > Think-Cell and aggree to the license terms.
On the Think-Cell download page, enter your WU email address as your work email address.