What's in progress at think-cell

Development work is complete for the following list of features, but they are not yet included in a version that is available for download:

  • Charting
    • Import Mekko Graphics to think-cell
    • Data table aligned with chart categories and series
    • Data entry
      • 100%= row removed from default datasheet
      • All your slide data in one powerful datasheet
    • Chart decorations
      • CAGR labels include "per annum"
      • More trendlines for scatter charts
      • Grand total labels in Mekko chart
      • Visualize ranked data with ordinal axes
    • External data
      • More conditional formatting for charts and tables
      • Create a table that looks like your Excel sheet
        • Match table formatting to Excel
        • Add entire Excel ranges with formatting
      • UpdateChart and ppttc/JSON uses chart datasheet layout (instead of always default)
    • More ways to customize think-cell styles
  • Layout
    • Position and resize elements relative to each other with grouping
    • Match object alignment and size with reference objects
    • Chart outer gridlines for enhanced alignment
    • Tables
      • Add Harvey balls, checkboxes, and images to think-cell tables
      • All think-cell tables have datasheets
      • Create tables with datasheets from grouped elements
      • Table striping uses reference element
    • Images
      • Edit icons and other SVG images
      • Specify a width or height for images
  • Library
    • Full-text search in slides in file system folders
    • Slide templates
    • Freepik as stock image source
    • Stock images from file system
  • Productivity tools
    • Fully customizable think-cell ribbon
    • Copy slide selections to the clipboard
    • Updated mini toolbar
      • Moved the Use Datasheet Font Color and Use Datasheet Bold/Italic options
      • Added an option, Stacked Fill Order: Bottom to Top
      • Added a button, Convert Text Field to Plain Text
    • Offline manual
  • Miscellaneous
    • Additional API function, GetStyleName, for style files
    • Improved proxy server support: We now use WinHTTP services instead of WinINet

The following list of features in progress is preliminary and will be amended, expanded and re-prioritized during further development:

  • Better performance for bulk UpdateChart operations
  • Full-text search in slides on SharePoint
  • Searching for visually similar slides and slides similar in text content
  • Fonts customizable in style file
  • Fill scheme editor
  • Excel links connected to sliders
  • Stock images from SharePoint folders
  • 2x2/3x3 qualitative scatter charts
  • Add separator lines to tables and tabular layouts
  • Agenda support for multiple columns with additional information: time, speaker, duration, etc.
  • Interactive style file editor
  • Switch links between Excel workbooks containing copies of the same link
  • More sanitization

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