| Feature | Create with Preference Manager | Create with Customised Content |
|---|---|---|
| Create for Excel: | ||
| Preference manager wizard to self-customise | Yes | On request |
| Library store for templates such as custom databooks and XL models | Yes, Authors can add | Yes |
| Built in custom colour palette | Yes | Yes |
| Superfast table formats | Basic Set | Unlimited |
| Update tables and charts from Excel source data singularly or in a whole presentation | Yes | Yes |
| Apply custom formats to any native Excel chart | Yes | Yes |
| Automatically size, send and link charts and tables from Excel to PowerPoint | Yes | Yes |
| Quick Send to PowerPoint (one button to send and link selected Excel chart, table or text) | Yes | Yes |
| Quick Send to Word (one button to send and link selected Excel chart, table or text) | No | Yes |
| Create advanced custom charts: | ||
| • Waterfall | Yes | Yes |
| • Price Volume | Yes | Yes |
| • Marimekko | Yes | Yes |
| • Bubble | Yes | Yes |
| • Gantt | Yes | Yes |
| • Stacked Cluster | Yes | Yes |
| • Line/Column Combo | Yes | Yes |
| Change chart type | Yes | Yes |
| CAGR, labels and other charting tools: | ||
| • Match plot area | Yes | Yes |
| • Calculate & draw CAGR line | Yes | Yes |
| • Calculate & draw average line or average area | Yes | Yes |
| • Add shaded forecast period | Yes | Yes |
| • Split axis | Yes | Yes |
| • Add comment* | Yes* | Yes* |
| • Forcast | Yes | Yes |
| • Second Axis | Yes | Yes |
| • Make Line Series | Yes | Yes |
| Add linked text box pie labels | Yes | Yes |
| Create Undo - Undo previous Create actions | Yes | Yes |
| Multiply and Divide functionality | Yes | Yes |
| PDF - Save workbook as a PDF | Yes | Yes |
| Label tools: | ||
| • Add Data Lables | Yes | Yes |
| • Remove Data Labels | Yes | Yes |
| • Add linked text box pie labels | Yes | Yes |
| • Set Axis Date Labels | Yes | Yes |
| • Add Chart comment linked to data cell | Yes | Yes |
| Workbook tools: | ||
| • Add CAGR calculation from selected XL range | Yes | Yes |
| • Multiply and Divide cell value/s | Yes | Yes |
| • Add Footnote to Text/Chart | Yes | Yes |
| • Apply company approved number format | No | Yes |
| • Save workbook as a PDF; Remove all confidential document properties and metadata | Yes | Yes |
| Resize selected chart to fit placeholder in PowerPoint | Yes | Yes |
| Create Undo - Undo previous Create actions | Yes | Yes |
| Create for PowerPoint: | ||
| Preference manager wizard to self-customise | Yes | On request |
| Built-in company templates | Yes, Authors can add | Yes |
| Brand Checker (e.g. non-standard colours or fonts, highlighted text, double spaces, square brackets) | Yes | Yes |
| Company info updateable (Office addresses and contact numbers linked to user defaults) | No | Yes |
| Disclaimers from library (short and long) with updateable content, linked to user defaults | No | Yes |
| Company Author-defined "updateable content" e.g. text, image, chart or table | No | Yes |
| Slide layout library - custom per Presentation Template | No | Yes |
| Shared content library - custom per Presentation Template | No | Yes |
| Change spellcheck language | Yes | Yes |
| Page numbers for Facing Pages (whole presentation) | Yes | Yes |
| Switch to Alternative Brand / New Brand | Yes | Yes |
| Toggle draft stamp on/off | Yes | Yes |
| Select objects - change all attributes: by shape, colour or line style | Yes | Yes |
| Make objects - same height, width or apply all properties of a selected object | Yes | Yes |
| Package a copy of the selected presentation together, with all linked source data into a custom zip | Yes | Yes |
| View XL data source links for charts, text and tables | Yes | Yes |
| Change selected Excel charts or tables to new workbook | Yes | Yes |
| Remove all confidential document properties and PDF | Yes | Yes |
| Formatting tools: | ||
| • Format PPT chart | Yes | Yes |
| • Format table in PowerPoint including bullets, numbers and text | Limited | Unlimited |
| • Sort table (alphabetical or numerical) | Yes | Yes |
| Add section dividers | Yes | Yes |
| Add appendix dividers | No | Yes |
| Automatic table of contents or agenda - 5 ways (from Dividers, Page Titles, Repeating, 1 or 2 col, etc) | Limited | Unlimited |
| Autotext menu of user-defined text shapes | No | Yes |
| Quick slides (e.g. 1 up, 2 up, 4 up) | Yes | Yes |
| Calendar tool | No | Yes |
| Insert picture (from file or clipboard) | Yes | Yes |
| Insert map marker | Yes | Yes |
| AutoText - Add common slide elements such as Title, Subtitle and Source to the slide | Yes | Yes |
| Change Layout of a certain slide | Yes | Yes |
| Add Section Tracker (single section, or all sections with active section highlighted) | Yes | Yes |
| Create for Word: | ||
| Preference manager wizard to self-customise | No | On request |
| Customised, built-in document template | No | Yes |
| Built in custom colour palette | No | Yes |
| Superfast table formats | No | Yes |
| Apply smart formats to any native Excel chart | No | Yes |
| Automatically size, send and link charts and tables from Excel to Word | No | Yes |
| Update tables and charts from Excel source data singularly or in a whole document | No | Yes |
| • Create custom style and borders task panes | No | Yes |
| • Text and object-content library | No | Yes |
| • Exhibits library (layout placeholders for 1 object, 2, 4 etc.) | No | Yes |
| • Layout placeholder for a chart, table or picture | No | Yes |
| • Insert Portrait/Landscape orientation | No | Yes |
| • Table of contents editor | No | Yes |
| • Package a copy of a selected document, together with all linked source data into a custom zip | No | Yes |
| • Toggle letterhead on/off | No | Yes |
| • Toggle draft stamp on/off | No | Yes |
| Shape library | No | Yes |
| Symbol library | No | Yes |
| Shared content library | No | Yes |
| Toggle letterhead on/off (for printed on pre-printed stationery) | No | Yes |
| Cloud and other shared features (Excel, PowerPoint): | ||
| Synchronise content changes | Manual | Automatic** |
| Cloud storage | No | Yes |
| Editable content shapes, text, layouts | No | Yes |
| Authoring | All users | Nominated |
*This feature is only available in Office 2016
**Office 365 only
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