
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.