Use think-cell Assist

think-cell Assist helps you work with data and slides in PowerPoint. Assist provides chat, translation, access to external datasets, and text editing. Use Assist to speed up analysis, create data-driven elements, and refine slide content.

think-cell Assist in PowerPoint

In PowerPoint, the think-cell Assist side pane has four main features:

• AI Chat
• Translation
• Data Access
• Text Assistant

To open the think-cell Assist side pane, on the PowerPoint ribbon, select Insert > think-cell > Assist.

AI Chat

Review slide content, revise slide text, and generate new content. You can use AI Chat in the following ways:

• Review your slide content, get suggestions for improvement, and explain terms and concepts (see Review slide content).
• Revise your slide content, generate text, and create tables using publicly available information (see Revise and generate content).

For the best results, clearly explain your goals or ask think-cell Assist to take on a specific role in your prompt.

Review slide content

Use AI Chat to review slide content and get feedback and explanations. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Select the slide that you want to review.
2. On the PowerPoint ribbon, select Insert > think-cell > Assist.
3. On the think-cell Assist side pane, enter your prompt into the chat box. The response to your prompt appears on the side pane.

Example prompts:

• Imagine you are a senior consultant at a leading consulting firm. How well does this slide work?
• Act as a financial executive at a large software company. What are the main financial takeaways from this slide?
• Act as a senior software engineer that specializes in LLMs and cloud computing. Explain the technical terms and concepts on this slide in plain language.

Revise and generate content

Use AI Chat to revise text directly on the slide or generate new content. AI Chat can search the web and use publicly available information to generate content and tables. To revise slide text or generate new content, follow these steps:

1. Select the slide that you want to revise or generate content for.
2. On the PowerPoint ribbon, select Insert > think-cell > Assist.
3. On the think-cell Assist side pane, enter your prompt into the chat box.

Depending on your prompt, the generated content appears in one of the following ways:

• Content suggestions: If your prompt asks for alternative wordings or stylistic improvements, the generated content appears on the side pane.
• Rewrite slide content: If your prompt asks to rewrite the text on your slide, the generated content replaces the text on the slide.
• Generate tables: If your prompt asks for a table, on the side pane, a preview of the table contents, the Insert table button, and any online sources that think-cell Assist used to generate the content appear. To insert the table into your slide, select Insert table.

Example prompts:

• I'm not an expert at IoT technology. Rewrite the text on this slide in a simpler language that I can understand.
• Create a table with three columns. First, list the three most important points on this slide in a few words. Then, generate more detailed explanations of each point. Finally, add simple definitions of technical terminology.
• I want to emphasize climate policy on this slide. Create a table that lists the five largest countries in the world by population and their per-capita primary energy consumption, and suggest three impactful titles for the slide.

Translation

Translate the text in your presentation.

To translate the contents of a text box, select the text box, then choose from the following options:

• If you selected a think-cell text box, the mini toolbar opens. At the bottom of the mini toolbar, select Translate.
• If you selected a PowerPoint text box, the think-cell Assist toolbar opens. Select Translate.

To translate your slides, follow these steps:

1. On the PowerPoint ribbon, select Insert > think-cell > Assist.
2. On the think-cell Assist side pane, select the Translation tab.
3. Select Current Slide, Selected Slides, or All Slides.
4. Select the target language on the dropdown menu.
5. Select Translate slide(s).

Data Access

Find public datasets and statistics and create charts and reports from external sources. think-cell Assist currently supports the following data sources:

• Public company financial data via Morningstar.
• Statistics by topic via Statista.

To retrieve company data from Morningstar and create a chart or report, follow these steps:

1. On the PowerPoint ribbon, select Insert > think-cell > Assist.
2. On the think-cell Assist side pane, select the Data Access tab, then select the Public companies menu.
3. In the search box, type the name of the company. A list of options appears under the search box as you type. In the list, select the company that you want.

Once you find the company you want, you can generate a company report or create a chart from the company's financial data and add it to your presentation.

To create a chart from the company data, follow these steps:

1. Select the financial datasets that you want.
2. Select the time frame.
3. Select Insert chart.
4. Place the chart on your slide.

To generate a report of the company as an Excel file, select Request report. Assist generates a report and displays a file name and size. To download the report, select the generated file.

To create a chart from Statista data, follow these steps:

1. On the PowerPoint ribbon, select Insert > think-cell > Assist.
2. On the think-cell Assist side pane, select the Data Access tab, then select the Statistics menu.
3. In the search box, type keywords for the topic that you want, then select Search or Enter. A list of statistics based on your keywords appear under the search box.
4. Select an item in the list. More information about the topic and statistics appear.
5. When you find the statistics that you want, select Insert Chart.

Text Assistant

Adjust the wording on your slides while keeping their meaning intact, generate executive summaries, and create action titles. The Text Assistant tab has three main feature groups:

• Text adjustments
• Summary
• Action title

Text adjustments

Use preset or custom prompts to quickly transform selected text without changing its meaning. Text Assistant has the following preset prompts:

• Shorten: Makes the text shorter.
• Apply parallel phrasing: Rewrites the text without changing its meaning.
• Bullet points: Breaks down the text into short bullet points.

To apply a preset text adjustment prompt to your text, follow these steps:

1. Select the text box that contains the text that you want to change. If no text box is selected, the assistant adjusts all the text on the current slide.
2. On the PowerPoint ribbon, select Insert > think-cell > Assist.
3. On the think-cell Assist side pane, select the Text Assistant tab.
4. Select the default prompt that you want.

To use a custom prompt to change text in a specific way, follow these steps:

1. Select the text box that contains the text that you want to change.
2. On the PowerPoint ribbon, select Insert > think-cell > Assist.
3. On the think-cell Assist side pane, select the Text Assistant tab.
4. In the Custom prompt text box, enter your prompt, then select Generate.

Alternatively, you can edit text with think-cell Assist directly on your slide. To do so, select the text box that you want to edit, then choose from the following options:

• If you selected a think-cell text box, the mini toolbar opens. At the bottom of the mini toolbar, select the adjustment that you want to apply to the text.
• If you selected a PowerPoint text box, the think-cell Assist toolbar opens. Select the adjustment that you want to apply to the text.

You can also save custom prompts and access them later from the Default prompts menu. To do so, follow these steps:

1. On the PowerPoint ribbon, select Insert > think-cell > Assist.
2. On the think-cell Assist side pane, select the Text Assistant tab.
3. Next to the Text Assistant header, select the Settings button.
4. On the Personalized prompts menu, select New prompt. Edit personalized prompt dialog opens.
5. In the Display name text box, enter a name for your prompt. In the Prompt text box, enter your custom prompt.
6. To finish creating your custom default prompt, select Save prompt.

Summary

Create an executive summary for selected slides or the entire presentation.

To summarize your slides, follow these steps:

1. On the PowerPoint ribbon, select Insert > think-cell > Assist.
2. On the think-cell Assist side pane, select the Text Assistant tab, then select the Summary menu.
3. To specify the scope of the summary, select Entire Presentation or Selected slides.
4. Choose from one of two summary types:
   • Slide contents: Summarizes the full contents of each slide in your selection in a bulleted list.
   • Action titles: Lists the contents of each slide in your selection as short action titles in a bulleted list.
5. Select Insert slide. Assist inserts a slide that contains the summary for your selection.

Action title

Generate and add action-titles to your selected slide. To generate an action title, follow these steps:

1. Select the slide that you want to create an action title for.
2. On the PowerPoint ribbon, select Insert > think-cell > Assist.
3. On the think-cell Assist side pane, select the Text Assistant tab, then select the Action title menu.
4. Select Suggest action titles. Three different action titles for your slide appear in a list.
5. If you like an action title in the list, select it to add it to your slide. To generate more action titles, next to the Action title header, select Regenerate action titles.