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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