think-cell 5.3 – User Guide

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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 on page 100. System requirements To install and run think-cell, the following software must be installed: – Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7 or 8. – Microsoft Office XP, 2003, 2007 or 2010 with at least PowerPoint and Excel installed The installation of think-cell requires about 55 MB of disk space. First installation 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 doubleclicking the downloaded setup file. The installation wizard asks for the installation path, then copies the required files and updates the registry. The default installation path is: C:\Program Files\think-cell 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. The default installation path for a single-user installation is: C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\ ↣ Local Settings\Application Data\think-cell or, for Windows Vista, 7 and 8: C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Local\think-cell
Missing system components When you start PowerPoint for the first time after installing think-cell, the software checks for the availability of all required system components. On most computers, the required components are already installed. If think-cell detects that a required system component is missing, a dialog box opens with either a link to Microsoft’s download web page for the respective component or an explanation how to install the missing component using Microsoft Office Setup. You need to restart Power- Point for the installation to take effect. Components required by think-cell are: Visual Basic for Applications component In Microsoft Office Setup, choose Add or Remove Features and select it under Office Shared Features. Microsoft Graph In Microsoft Office Setup, choose Add or Remove Features, then under Office Tools, select Graph. Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) 3.0 This is included in Windows XP or later and in Internet Explorer 6.0 or later. Macro security warnings The think-cell add-in requires the file tcaddin.dll to be loaded by PowerPoint and Excel. Depending on the security settings of your computer, you may be prompted with the following security warning when starting one of these products after installing think-cell. Installation and update 11 You can examine the file’s certificate by clicking on Details. Make sure the certificate belongs to think-cell Software GmbH, Berlin, Germany. We recommend that you check the box Always trust macros from this source and then click Enable Macros. – If you do not check Always trust macros from this source, the security dialog will continue to show up whenever you start PowerPoint or Excel. – If the security on your computer is set to High, you must check the box before you can click Enable Macros. – If you choose Disable Macros, you will not be able to use think-cell. To enable macros, close PowerPoint or Excel and open it again; you will then again be prompted with the security dialog. 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.
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Page 3 and 4: Contents Imprint . . . . . . . . .
Page 5 and 6: Contents 5 Arrows and values . . .
Page 7 and 8: Contents 7 14. Excel data links . .
Page 9: 1. Product overview Welcome to thin
Page 13 and 14: Online quality assurance At think-c
Page 15 and 16: Note: In the following, we will use
Page 17 and 18: Entering chart data When you select
Page 19 and 20: The scribble on page 14 is now repr
Page 21 and 22: Icon Known as Page column or bar ch
Page 23 and 24: - Open the think-cell context menu
Page 25 and 26: Color scheme The color scheme contr
Page 27 and 28: 5. Data entry Internal data sheet E
Page 29 and 30: Transposing the data sheet lets you
Page 31 and 32: Automatic label placement When usin
Page 33 and 34: It is not obvious when a numeric te
Page 35 and 36: Pasting text into multiple labels W
Page 37 and 38: The clustered chart is a variant of
Page 39 and 40: A handle appears at each end when y
Page 41 and 42: - The tickmark spacing for value ax
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Page 47 and 48: Arrow modes. You can cycle through
Page 49 and 50: Series connectors In menus: Chart,
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12. Project timeline (Gantt chart)
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Scale display When changing the dat
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add rows and keep typing without re
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When you select a Harvey ball, an a
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Moving items There are several ways
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Date format control You can freely
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13. Customizing think-cell This cha
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Example fillSchemeRefDefault Avail
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5. Add your own colors using the so
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When you click on this menu item in
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You can also let think-cell automat
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original or the copied Excel files
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Frequently asked questions What are
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For further information read sectio
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15. More tools This chapter explain
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a) Open the Format Text Box dialog
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chooses the appropriate function an
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constant multiplication. Also, a su
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Appendix
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user, and by default think-cell is
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Note: Any quote characters in the X
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all relevant system parameters. To
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The error report is sent via HTTPS
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B. Exchanging files with PowerPoint
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C. Programming think-cell Some func
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If you want to control the colors o
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Index 100% chart, 37 - 100% indicat
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