think-cell Pros and Cons

I came to Think-Cell, like most folks, from management consulting. For my first couple years with it I only used it for chart functionality in PPTX - and that is definitely it's most important aspect. Making charts in think-cell is *enormously* faster, and substantially better-looking, than powerpoint's built-in solution. If you make charts in PPT at least once a month, this is worth it for you.

More recently I've started using their textbox functionality. At *first,* when I didn't really know how to use it properly, I found it unintuitive and cumbersome, so I - like most people - stopped. Once I watched their tutorial video however and learned how to use them, OH MAN are they fantastic. think-cell text boxes save you all the trouble of constantly re-aligning and re-sizing things every time you add a bullet or change some language. It makes layouts SO much faster and easier. I can't believe I lived without them.

One of the best software products out there, strongly recommend to anyone who works in powerpoint regularly! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My two main suggestions for improvement are:

(1) Make the video tutorials more front-and-center; the textboxes are intuitive once you've watched the video, but if you don't watch the video and just try to use them without it, you'll give up. The text tutorials online are also frankly not as exhaustive as they could be. They should invest more resources into making the text manual more exhaustive, with a wider set of FAQs based on observing actual customer usage and points of confusion. I hate spending time trying to figure out whether something is even possible in think-cell - that should be a quick search, not requiring me to parse through pages of text to figure out what *you* call things

(2) Add more functionality to the text boxes, especially: options for lines between columns and rows, so that *those* resize along with the text boxes; and more ability to add colors and borders to text boxes, for callouts and things like that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use ThinkCell with all of my PM teams. While Project software is great for building correct dependencies, they often do not serve well as communication tools. ThinkCell provides a clear and customizable format to communicate timelines and critical decision points without losing your audience to unnecessary details. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ThinkCell interface takes some getting used to. It's not intuitive at first, and I certainly needed a tutorial to get into the tool. Once you know what each button does when hovering over a timeline, it's quick and easy, but not intuitive at first. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A comprehensive set of templates, easy to use, adjust and customize to your needs. No chart is too technically challenging to "see" or interpret, but all "business" and high-impact charts to make an elegant and Wow slide, helping you to tell your (data-) story in a concise and data-driven format.

Moreover, Thinkcell is a one-stop tool to be a time-saver (~20-30% faster to build a chart) and a quality booster to your charts/slides. From small nuances, such as color-scheme consistency, to "graphical call-outs", your chart will be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Older versions could slow down a bit the Office package, but nothing significant in the latest versions.... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The fact that I can customize all office app toolbars and shortcuts. In particular, the customization I can make on PowerPoint to be able to more quickly and effectively format my slides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are occasionally features that I used to have access to that I can no longer find. For example, the ability to match objects positions on multiple slides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a very easy tool to work with, user-friendly, easy to do adaptations or changes, beautiful slides and way better than other competitors (such as mekographics) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

sometimes make my laptop crash, more on excel and I don't ever use the tool on excel so maybe something to improve. And maybe should have more color pallets as the ones now are a bit old. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Don't know how many years in 25-year professional career at Getty Images, MSFT and T-Mo I wasted just using Excel and/or PwrPt charting/reporting without think-cell. A 7 year-old could be proficient with it in two days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NOTHING. I've tied SQL Svr and other databases to my Excel workbooks (and granted it's Excel based), but as a PwrPt extension for presentations there's nothing you can't do with it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most helpful function in Think-Cell is the option to keep Excel color formatting through PowerPoint graphs. Changing formats and showing the correct company visual identity on presentations is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like to manage my think-cell licenses by user and machine, and an option on the portal would be appreciated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that I can add in a chart and easily update the data. Very dynamic! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It takes a bit to really get comfortable with the charts and it's not super easy to change to a different chart once it has been created. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.