KB0022: Can I animate think-cell charts in PowerPoint?

Solution

Create a Stacked Chart with think-cell. In the think-cell toolbar go to More → Deactivate think-cell. Right-click on the MSGraph chart object, choose Custom Animation. Choose Add Effect → Entrance → Appear. Right-click on the new animation entry, choose Effect options. In the Chart Animation tab, for Group Chart, choose e.g. By series. Deactivate Animate grid and legend. Click OK.

Now you have animated the chart but all the labels created by think-cell are not animated.

In the animation list, where we have only one entry for the chart animation just created, you see a little double arrow pointing downwards. Click the double arrow. Now it shows an animation entry for every chart series that appears and for the grid/legend if you haven't deactivated their animation. Select the series label and the segment labels that belong to the first series. When they're all selected, choose Add Effect → Entrance → Appear.

They're all animated as a single group now.

You can move the whole group upwards in the animation list below the entry that is called "Chart 2 Series 1". We want the labels of the first series to appear when the first series is displayed. When you still have selected the animation list entry corresponding to the labels, click on the dropdown box Start: OnClick and change its value to With Previous.

Now the labels of the first series will appear together with their MSGraph series.

Repeat the last few steps with the labels of each series and you're done. You can reactivate think-cell and your animation still works.