think-cell 5.3 – User Guide

Note: You probably know that in PowerPoint you can
zoom in and out using the mouse wheel with the ✄ ✂ Ctrl✁
key held down. Together with the panning feature from
think-cell, using zoomed views for slide design becomes
easy and fast.
Formatting and style
Whenever you select a smart-element or feature by clicking
on it a floating toolbar appears. It contains property
controls to change the look of the feature. Only the controls
which are applicable to the selected feature are
shown in the floating toolbar.
In this chapter several general types of controls are described.
Through the course of the following chapters
detailed information is provided for all property controls
of the floating toolbar in the context of specific chart and
feature types.
Color and fill
The color control applies to features that
have a fill color and to lines in line
charts. It does not apply to text, because
the text color and the text background
color are always set automatically.
The list contains Like Excel Cell if you have
enabled Use Excel Fill in the color scheme
control (see Color scheme on the next page). To reset the
fill color of a segment you colored manually choose Like
Excel Cell to use Excel’s cell formatting.
If you need other colors than offered by the color control,
select the Custom option from the dropdown box. You
will then be presented with a color picker where you can
choose any color you like.
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Note: If you want to apply a color other than black or
white, make sure that the slider for the brightness (on
the very right of the dialog) is not set to minimum or
maximum. When you move the slider up or down, you
can watch how the color changes in the colored field on
the bottom of the dialog.
think-cell adds the most recently used custom colors to
the color control for quick access. You will find a divider
line in the list of most recently used colors: The colors
above the divider are saved within the presentation, so
you can rest assured that your colleagues have them
available when editing the presentation. The colors below
the divider are available on your computer only, because
you were using them in a different presentation.
Both sections can hold up to 8 colors. When you use a
9th custom color, the first one is removed from the list.
You should use the color property only to highlight a single
shape or segment. If you need to colorize an entire
chart, use the color scheme property instead.