KB0022: Can I animate thinkcell charts?

There is currently no built-in thinkcell support for chart animations.

As a workaround, it is possible to animate native PowerPoint shapes to cover thinkcell objects and then appear or disappear to get a similar animating effect.

For instance, you can animate an entire chart by placing a rectangle with the background color on top of the chart and adding an Exit or Entrance animation such as Fade to make the chart appear or disappear, respectively.