Power-user

User guide v1.6.860

Welcome! This guide will give you an overview of each of the
Power-user features so you can boost your productivity.

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Insert slide, shape, textbox, SmartArt, screenshot, hyperlink
On the left of the ribbon, you will be able to easily insert the main native items of PowerPoint:
 Insert a slide
 Insert a shape
 Insert a text box
 Insert a smart art
 Insert a screenshot
 Insert an hyperlink

Though not disruptive, it enables you to keep those important items just 1 click away at all time.

Slides Screenshots
Shapes

Smart
Art

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Library – Templates (1/3) – Power-user templates
Browse hundreds of templates and click to insert
1 By default they are inserted in your theme, but you can use the contextual menu to keep the
source formatting.

You can pick templates from the Power-user library, from your own personal
2 library, or from a library defined for your entire company!

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Library – Templates (2/3) – My templates
Save your favorite slides in a personal library of templates, and access them later anytime, from any presentation.

Select your slides and click “Save in Library” from the ribbon or from the right-click
1 menu.

Open the Library, and select “My Templates” in the drop-down list: your slides will
be there!
2 Click a template to insert it: you can keep source formatting or use destination
formatting.

Your templates files are saved in C:\Users\YOUR.USER.NAME\Documents\Power-

user\Templates\My templates.
3 You can add multiple files in this folder to create additional My Templates libraries.
Open them and create sections to organize slides in categories.

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Library – Templates (3/3) – Company templates
Set up a library of templates for your organization. Ensures all employees have up to date / official templates, company presentation, figures, CVs, etc.

Corporate library of templates

An administrator manages templates centrally

Users can access the latest version of templates at any time

Contact us to set up Company Templates for your organization

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Library – Icons (1/2)
Icons are the ideal tool to illustrate a concept and make it more digest. They have become an essential part of modern communication
standards. You can access over 4,000 icons. Most of them can be edited, resized and colored as PowerPoint shapes.

1 Click “Library” / “Icons”

A window opens.

Click to insert an icon

2 You an use the search bar to search for specific keywords,
look only in a specific category or just scroll through icons.
Use the “Source” list to switch to a different library.

Edit shape icons

3 You can resize shape icons without deformation as they are
vectors, and you can recolor them just like any PowerPoint
shape.
You can also right-click an icon to apply pre-defined styles!

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Library – Icons (2/2)
Icons are the ideal tool to illustrate a concept and make it more digest. They have become an essential part of modern communication
standards. You can access over 4,000 icons. Most of them can be edited, resized and colored as PowerPoint shapes.

Add optional libraries to Power-user (version 1.6.826 or
4 higher)
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• Click the gear wheel button ("Settings") at the left of Power-user.
• Then click "Optional Libraries" to download them. That’s it​
• Here are the optional libraries currently available:
Add your own icons to Power-user
Go to C:\Users\your.name\Documents\Power-user\Icons
• Create a folder (called "MyIcons" for instance): a new "MyIcons"
source will be available in Power-user
• In this folder, create subfolders (called "SubFolder1" and
"SubFolder2" for instance): new Categories will be created in
Power-user, under the "MyIcons" source.
• Place your icons in the subfolders. If you don't need any subfolder,
create an "All" subfolder and place all your icons there.

Modern theme Illustrations (Office 2016 or higher)

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Library – Pictures (1/2)
Good quality pictures are hard to find on the Internet, and can expose companies to intellectual property infringement
lawsuits. Power-user provides business-oriented, high-quality and royalty-free images.

1 Click “Library” / “Pictures”

Browse 100,000 high-quality pictures

2 Type keyword to browse. Just click a picture to insert it. Various
format are suggested, designed to optimize how the picture
will be on your slide: full slide, portrait, landscape, etc.

Insert Pictures from Bing

3 Alternatively, you can browse pictures directly from Bing. This can be
useful if you are looking for something more specific like a company logo
for instance.

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Library – Pictures (2/2)
Insert company logos from Power-user. Inserting logos is normally time-consuming: it requires opening your browser, going to a pictures search,
typing the company name, browsing for the logo, downloading it and inserting it in the presentation. Not anymore using our logo browser!

1 Click “Library” / “Pictures”

Under “Sources”, and select “Clearbit logo”

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Browse and insert logos

3 Use the search bar to find logos, then browse pictures directly from Power-
user. You can also check the box to insert logos in greyscale.

Add your own logo to the database

4 Just add a og:logo Open Graph meta tag to your index page under the root domain, and
point its content attribute to your logo of choice. Both png and jpg format are supported.

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Library – Maps
Power-user includes 200 maps that you can link to Excel data, coloring See it in action: click here for a demo video
them automatically for a fantastic visual impact.

Insert a map from the Library Right-click the map to edit it

1 2 Edit the values in the Excel table linked to your
map, adjust colors, display values, legend etc.
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Library – Special charts
Charts are a central piece of presentations and reports and the best way to present quantitative data. Power-user provides
special charts to enrich the possibilities of PowerPoint with matrices (ideal for positioning companies or products) and waterfall
charts (ideal to break-down a value into is multiple components).

Click “Library” / “Special charts”

1 In the pane, click a chart to insert it.

Edit your chart using the classic data sheet

2 For waterfall, the chart will automatically update when you add or remove columns
or rows. Some cells are protected to avoid modification, it means you don’t need to
change it, it will update automatically. Note: columns at the top left / right should
not be inserted or deleted as the define the starting point of the chart.

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Diagrams (1/2)
Diagrams are a fantastic way to illustrate complex interactions between elements (time periods, objects, concepts…) in a very
fashion way. But they are very hard to create manually. The Diagram generator will let you create custom diagrams in seconds.

1 Click the “Diagrams” button in the ribbon

and select the diagram of your choice
2 Parameter it to match your needs
Choose the number of elements you want and the
A window opens. Type your text to add a sticky color for your diagram.
note on the slide.
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Diagrams (2/2)
Diagrams can be updated dynamically with the Power-user interface.

Select a dynamic diagram

1 A contextual window appears, like in the
illustration.

Change the value in the contextual

2 menu
Type a new value or use the arrow keys. The
diagram will automatically adjust to the new
value.

Change the colors

2 Click the colored square and choose a new Be aware that dynamic update may not be possible
color for your diagram. The diagram will anymore if you ungroup the diagram.
automatically adjust to it.

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Gantt diagrams
Gantt Diagram help build and follow project planning and show how its phases articulate. It is an indispensable tool to report
progress made, highlight key deadlines and milestones and ensure projects are on schedule.

Customize
1 Click the “Gantt Diagram”
button in the ribbon
4 Extend shapes for continuous phases, or add
A window opens. symbols for milestones.

Define the time unit

2 Tick the radiobutton to define daily, 02/10 03/10 04/10 05/10 06/10 07/10 08/10 09/10
weekly, monthly or yearly steps. Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Phase 4
Phase 5
Define start and end
3 Select dates in the calendar
Phase 6
Phase 7
Phase 8

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Sticky Notes, Mini-slide & Summary
Nowadays, the creation of PowerPoint presentations is usually a group effort. With our Sticky Notes, you can efficiently
exchange on slides with your colleagues, leaving messages, suggestions or comments.

Sticky Notes Mini-slide Summary

1 Quickly add a short comment
2 Add a miniature of an existing slide, in a
3 Select a group of slides, and click “Summary”. A
on your slide. picture format. new slide will be created, with the titles of all
the previously selected slides and an hyperlink.

Robert => Review the To-do:

formatting of this slide and add - Review second paragraph,
impactful illustrations - Merge slide 4 and 5,
- Challenge the figures with the
other presentation

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Stamps
This tool allows you to add stamps on all your slides. This is great to mark all your slides as “Draft” or “Confidential” for instance.

See it in action: click here for a demo video

You can customize in the Settings if

Create or remove the stamps. Use you prefer the stamps to be
“Pick from selection” to use the positioned directly on the slide or in
currently selected shape(s) as stamp the slide master

Use the X/Y axes to define the

position of the stamps on your slides

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Clipboard
The « Clipboard » buttons let you:
• Use the regular clipboard, to paste objects, paste them with source formatting or destination
theme, paste them as text, as pictures, etc.
• Use the Office Clipboard, letting you copy and paste multiple elements, keeping up to 24
elements in the memory of the clipboard. You can then access them later and paste them in
any order.

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Group “View”
The third part of the add-in regroups the 3 standard PowerPoint views so you can easily shift from one view to another without having to navigate
within tabs.

« Normal view » allows you to edit your « Master view » controls the entire « Slide sorter view » allows you to see the
presentation slide by slide and to navigate with presentation. You can insert a shape or a logo thumbnails of all the slides in your
thumbnails. on the slide master and it will show up on all presentation in order to easily rearrange them.
your slides automatically.

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Group “Text”
The « Text » group contains all the features you need to format your text and correct the spelling.

The Power-user button “One Font” is designed
to review the used font in your slides and to
replace them in just a few clicks. You can then
ensure the font you are using is consistent in
your entire presentation.
The same language can be applied to all the A translation tool is integrated into PowerPoint
text boxes or charts in your presentation, so in order to easily translate elements from one
that you adapt the auto-correct to the language language to another.
you are using.

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Clean
The Clean pane is a combination of powerful tools to help you secure you send presentations that are clean
from mistakes, missing elements, confidential information, etc.

Here is the kind of things you can do from this toolbox:

• Detect when multiple fonts are coexisting in your presentation, and convert them all to a single font,
• Automatically remove double words, double blanks, empty placeholders, as well as unwanted effects or
animations,
• Detect missing page numbers or footers, and fix them in 1 click,
• Preserve confidentiality by removing notes, comments, document properties and personal information
• Significantly reduce file size by deleting unused layout slides, removing off-slide content, compressing
pictures or removing cropped areas, exporting hidden content in a separate file.

See it in action: click here for a demo video

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Group “Format” > Replace color
Sometimes, you need to convert an entire presentation to a new color code, or to correct visually inconsistent colors.
This can be really time-consuming. This feature replaces one color by another in your entire presentation.

See it in action: click here for a demo video

Select the color(s) you want to replace

1 The colors shown are those already existing in your
presentation. If you have a large number of colors, the
“Include almost identical colors” checkbox will
automatically take all colors close to the one you selected.

Define the target color

2 This is the color that you want for your presentation.

Define the scope of the replacement

3 You can decide to make the color change in either text
colors, fill colors or outline colors, or to all of them at the
same time. You can also define the slides on which to
make the change.
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Group “Format” > Footers
Footers are a must have in any presentation to add confidentiality notes or to provide contextual information about the
date or the number of the slide which is currently being presented.

Apply date and time, slide number

1 Click the “Footers / date / slide
numbers” button in the ribbon (in
the ‘Format’ drop-down menu)
The footers window opens.
2 or customized footer note
Check the tickboxes in the form.
Apply to the current slide or to all slides
3 Press “Apply to all at the bottom of the form to apply
changed to all slides. Slide numbers will adjust for each
page.

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Group “Format” > Apply selective formatting
Apply selective formatting on a chosen string of character. For instance, use it to highlight your client’s name, your
own name or product in a business presentation.

Type the string of characters you

1 Click the “Apply selective bold / italic / 2 want to format
underline” button in the ribbon (in the
‘Format’ drop-down menu)
The window below opens.

Define the target format

3 Apply or remove bold, italic or underline in any combination you want.
Leave the radiobutton on “No change” if you need for instance to apply
bold everytime “Power-user” appears in your presentation, but leaving it
in italic or not depending on the context on the slide.

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Agenda (1/3) See it in action: click here for a demo video
Agenda is a powerful tool to build the Agenda of your presentation: create a section for each main topic in your presentation, edit titles to write a
coherent story, and automatically create or update all the agenda pages in your presentation. You can customize it and apply custom layouts.

Step 1 : create your agenda by adding sections

Rename and move sections or slides until you get the desired structure for your presentation.
Then hit “Update”.

Create, rename or move sections

Go to a specific slide

Agenda pages like this are automatically created at the beginning of each section. All
agenda pages are also automatically updated when you refresh the Agenda table. Update agenda pages automatically
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 Agenda (2/3) See it in action: click here for a demo video
Agenda is a powerful tool to build the Agenda of your presentation: create a section for each main topic in your presentation, edit titles to write a
coherent story, and automatically create or update all the agenda pages in your presentation. You can customize it and apply custom layouts.

Step 2 : customize the style of your agenda

Choose between different designs, using a full table of content or only dividers, showing/hiding elements, changing the Title of agenda pages or the agenda color.
Then hit “Update”.

Choose between Table of Content or Dividers and pick the Style of your choice

Customize the
agenda design

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Agenda (3/3) See it in action: click here for a demo video
Agenda is a powerful tool to build the Agenda of your presentation: create a section for each main topic in your presentation, edit titles to write a
coherent story, and automatically create or update all the agenda pages in your presentation. You can customize it and apply custom layouts.

Step 3 : apply custom layouts

Apply a custom layout to an agenda page to include your logo or corporate style, to change the appearance or the position of the slide titles, etc.
You can also right-click on a slide to use its layout for all Agenda / Divider pages.
Edit the layout from the Master view, just like you would for any other layout.

Use the “Layout” gallery in Home to apply a specific layout to an agenda page Right-click a slide to apply its layout to all Table of content / Dividers
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Pipette
The Pipette is maybe he most powerful tool in the Power-user suite. It grants you absolute flexibility for formatting, applying any combination of
shape features (fill or line color and style, shape size, shape position, font style and color, text anchor, margins, bullet style) to other shapes.

Some combinations you can use:

• Harmonize bullets in your presentation
• Adjust roundness of shapes angles
• Memorize the position of a shape and apply it later to other shapes See it in action: click here for a demo video
• Format simultaneously all titles in your presentation
• Copy and paste the exact dimensions of a chart
• Etc.

Select a shape and click “Pipette – Copy format”

1 All the properties of the currently selected shame will be saved.

2 Select target shapes and click “Pipette – Apply format”

Define which feature to apply (size, position, color…) and on

3 which shapes (selection, titles, shapes with a specific color, etc.

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Chart + (1/3)
Chart+ allows you to edit simultaneously multiple charts in the presentation. Standardize either charts themselves (size, legend,
titles etc.) or edit series individually. This is a fantastic tool for quantitative reports with hundreds of charts that would take
forever to edit manually.

For example, you can:

• Redefine the font, the font size, or the font color of all your charts
• Add or remove data labels, axis, gridlines, legend, titles…
• Change position of the legend on every chart (bottom, left, right, top…)
• Change the charts’ dimensions
• Change the color of the first series for pie charts only, from slide 23 to slide 42
• Add an outline to all bar charts
• Etc.
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Chart + (2/3)

Change font elements of charts. For instance, change them all to Arial, blue, size 12.

Change the dimensions of charts, resizing the chart area or the plot area.

Define which chart elements should be visible or not visible. For instance, define that all
charts should have a legend on the left but no label.

Define to which slide these changes will apply. You can change hundreds of charts
simultaneously or just target a few slides.

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Chart + (3/3)

Change the look of histogram series. Define the series which should be changed, and
click the square to choose the color to apply. You can also add or remove outlines.

Change the look of line series. Define the series which should be changed, and click the
square to choose the color to apply. You can change the weight of lines, add or remove
dashes and markers.

Change the look of line series. Define the series which should be changed, and click the
square to choose the color to apply.

Define to which slide these changes will apply. You can change hundreds of charts
simultaneously or just target a few slides.
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Group “Font”
The « Font » group contains all the standard features you need in order to work with text:

• Choose a font
• Change the size of the font
• Align text within shapes (left, right, center or justify)
• Add bullets or numbers
• Change indent level
• Change line spacing
• Change orientation or text anchor within the shape

In addition to the standard buttons, 3 additional buttons help you work with shapes:
• Fit the text to the shape
• Fit the shape to the text
• Remove internal margins or restore standard margins

This text is way

Text text text text text text
text too long
Fit the shape Fit the text to Before Remove Before
to the text Before the shape After internal After
After margins
Text text text
text text text text This text is way too long
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Group “Color”
The « Color » group contains all the features you need to play with colors:

• Font color
• Filling color
• Shape outline color

You are now able to gain access to these 3 essentials of PowerPoint at the same time. No more time wasted by navigating across different menus

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Align shapes
Alignment is the key to an appealing presentation. Power-user regroups at the same place all the standard
buttons to align shapes: align left, right, top, bottom, middle or center

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Spacing between shapes
These buttons allows you to distribute shapes, or increase / decrease the spacing between shapes, while keeping
them distributed:
• Distribute shapes horizontally or vertically
• Increase or decrease vertical spacing
• Increase or decrease horizontal spacing

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Symmetry
Symmetry is key to make a slide appealing, yet it can be painful to place objects symmetrically on a slide. The
Power-user Symmetry buttons will do just that for you.

1 Select the shapes you want to place symmetrically on the slide

2 Click the Symmetry button on the ribbon

Shapes will be distributed symmetrically around the middle axis of the slide.

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Swap Positions
Very often on PowerPoint, we need to switch the position of 2 shapes. This simple operation is yet painful to do
manually. You can now use the Swap shapes position button to do that instantly. You can Swap Positions based
on different anchors, swap only the text or even the animations of shapes.

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Stack shapes
Stack shapes using the Touch-align buttons. Contrary to the classical alignment buttons, shapes will be aligned on
their opposite ends. For instance, touch-left will make the left side of the shape on the right touch the right side of
the shape on the left.

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Organize
How often do you get to organize a group of shapes on your slide to form a table with rows and columns? Pretty often right? Well, with Organize
you can select a group of shapes and automatically position them in rows and columns to form a table. If you don’t have shapes yet, no problem,
Organize will create them in the number of rows and columns you decide!

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Group “Organize” > Combine shapes
Combine several shapes to create new and unique types of shapes matching your needs.

Select 2 or more shapes Click “Combine” and choose the option Customize the new shape
1 In this example, let’s create a moon-shape.
2 that matches your needs
3 When you have your new shape type, you
Create and select 2 circular shapes. Each Combine type produces different can customize it like any shape. Save it
results, as shown by the preview. For this with My Slides if you want to be able to
example, we need to choose Substract. reuse it later.

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Group “Organize” > Merge and Unmerge shapes
For every paragraph of text, the « unmerge » button creates a distinct shape with the text of the paragraph in it.
You can instantly split a text in multiple shapes with this feature. To do the opposite and consolidate multiple
shapes into a single one, use the « merge » button.

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Text3 Text3

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Group “Organize” > Select similar shapes
Sometimes its fastidious to select objects when there are many of them. With this feature, you can automatically
select similar objects on the slide based on its shape, color, size, font or outline. All the objects with the same
criteria as the selected object will be selected.

1 Select a shape of reference

Click the Select Same Shape button

2

3 Choose your criteria

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Group “Organize” > Straighten lines
Lines and arrows can look dirty when they are not exactly straight. With this feature, any line select will adjust to
be perfectly vertical / horizontal automatically.

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Group “Size” > Adjusting the size of shapes
Resize shape instantly with these features. Select a shape of reference, then add any number of shapes to your selection and click
the “Same Height”, “Same Width” or “Same Size” button to resize them. Press the Lock button to lock / unlock the aspect ratio.

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Group “Pictures” > Color, crop and compress pictures
These buttons let you quickly work on pictures to crop them, change their color and compress them.

Crop unwanted areas from your picture Quickly recolor pictures / icons Compress pictures to reduce the
size of the presentation

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Save and Send slides
Easily save or send your presentation, in a safe and efficient way. With 1 click you can:
• Send by email your entire presentation in PPTX, PDF, PPSX or PNG format.
• … or just send the slides that are currently selected
• Save your file in any of these formats
• … or extract only the currently selected slides in a separate file
• Add or remove a password to protect your file

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Tab explorer
The Tab Explorer lets you easily navigate between your Office applications with a simple click.

Click on an icon to show or hide these Click on a file to activate it. Right-click for more options like
files in the Tab Explorer opening the folder containing that file.

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Help
Here you can find useful information to increase your productivity with Power-user, and with PowerPoint, Excel and Word in general.

1 Find
If you are beginning with Power-user, you will easily find any Power-
user feature from this search engine.

1 Keyboard shortcuts
View all the best keyboard shortcuts that can make you an hyper
productive person!

2 Open user guide

Open this guide to learn more about any Power-user feature

3 Read our blog

We have written articles that will give you useful tips & tricks to improve
your productivity with PowerPoint and Excel
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This button regroups information about your license:
• You can view or change the email associated to your license
• You can see the unique ID that identifies your computer (in case we need if for technical support for instance)
• You can check your current version and see if there are any available updates.
• You can register to the Beta program to get features before their official release.
• You can view our contact details and reach us with just a click.
Copy/Paste chart dimensions
Have you ever realized that creating two different charts with the same dimensions is almost impossible ? Even though the outline of a graph
is easily adjustable, the size of the series are hard to change. This feature was designed to solve this issue.

1 Select the graph with the dimensions you like

2 Copy the dimensions of the graph with the “copy chart dimensions” button

3 Select the graphs you want to modify

4 Click the « paste chart dimensions » button

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Mekko charts
Mekko – or Marimekko - are a powerful type of charts, ideal to represent multiple dimensions of data on a single See it in action here
graph. For instance, they are perfect to show the relative market positions of several companies or products.
Customize the design of your chart
1 Click on “Create Mekko chart” 3 You can hide or show titles, format numbers,
A dialog box opens: select your data and the chart will be created
customize series design (colors, labels…), etc.

2
Right-click
Sankey charts
Sankey charts are the perfect visual representation of flows such as exportations, migrations, traffic sources, etc. See it in action here

1 Click on “Create Sankey chart” Customize the design of your chart

A dialog box opens: select your data and the chart will be created 3 You can hide or show titles, format numbers,
customize series design (colors, labels…), etc.

2
Right-click
Waterfall charts
Waterfall charts are one of the most popular charts, ideal to visually represent the key components of a See it in action here
number (for instance, how to go from Revenue to Profit)) or to run a gap analysis.

1 Prepare your data

• Create one or multiple series
• Use positive values to go up, negative values to go
down
• Use Sums to calculate Totals

2 Create the chart

• Click “Create Waterfal charts” on the ribbon
• Select the data range

3 Customize it
• Open the edition pane with a right click
• Change colors, show / hide labels and legend
• Select the data range
• Select a Category and click “Make it a Total” to
create intermediary totals
Tornado charts
Tornado charts are used to compare 2 sets of data on various items. For instance, it is perfect to compare the relative performance of 2 firms on
different products.

1 Prepare your data

• Position the 2 series to compare in 2 columns
• Position the items to compare in rows

2 Create the chart

• Click “Create Tornado charts” on the ribbon
• Select the data range

3 Customize it
• Open the edition pane with a right click
• Change colors, show / hide labels and legend, etc.
Library – Excel templates
Power-user brings you Excel templates, so you can get into action right away with a read-made, beautiful workbook. There are templates for a
dashboard template, a Gantt chart template, a RACI, a stock analysis template, a todo list…

Click the Library and then Excel templates

1

2 Just click a template to insert it

Add your own templates to the Library:

3 • Save your Excel files in C:\Users\YOUR.USER.NAME\Documents\Power-
user\Excel templates\My templates
• Save a preview in .png format, in the same folder and with the same name

4 Add your company Excel templates:

• Every user can access up-to-date templates set up at corporate level
• An admin manages templates centrally for all users
Library – Data maps
Power-user includes 200 maps that you can link to Excel data, coloring See it in action: click here for a demo video
them automatically for a fantastic visual impact.

Insert a map from the Library Right-click the map to edit it

1 2 Edit the values in the Excel table linked to your
map, adjust colors, display values etc.
Format numbers, currencies, dates
Easily give your data a more legible format. Show numbers or currencies as thousands, millions or billions, with their K, M or Bn symbols, while
preserving their real value. Show dates in any of the most common formats: DD-MM-YYYY, MM-DD-YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD, etc.

All cells have the same value. Only the format differs. All cells have the same date. Only the format differs.
Vertical / Horizontal borders
Having borders around each cell is not very visually attractive. It sometimes looks much nicer to have borders only separating columns. Doing
this is usually painful since you have to manually add side borders for every column, but Power-user now lets you do that automatically.
Select cells
Sometimes its fastidious to select cells when there are many of them. With this feature, you can automatically select similar cells on the active
sheet based color or format, if its merged or visible. All cells with the same criteria as the selected cell will be selected.

1 Select a cell of reference

Click the Select Same Cells button

2

3 Choose your criteria

Show all cells
Just click “Show all” on the ribbon and all the hidden rows and columns in the active worksheet will be revealed. This feature will save you the
time of un-hiding separately hidden rows and columns.
Center across selection
Merging cells can cause you some real trouble in Excel. It makes navigation, selection and calculations painful, taking into account the whole
group of merged cells when you don’t want to. With Center Across Selection, you can get the same visual result as merging cells, but without
actually merging them so that you can still format, select or make calculations on each cell independently.

1 Select the cells you want to “merge”

2 Click “center across selection”: the result looks exactly like merged
cells, but without the disadvantages!
Delete empty cells
When you have blanks cells in your data table, you can find yourself in the terrible situation where your filters won’t “see” all the rows you want
because there are empty rows. Worse, you may have to manually move the content of your cells up for the filter to work again. In that situation,
don’t waste hours: this Power-user feature will automatically move all your cells up.

1 Before 2 After
There are blank cells that prevent All cells are stacked up to remove
filters from working blanks
Merged cells manager
Merged cells can be a nightmare for Excel users. Merged cells prevent you from working in databases, and from using powerful tools such as
Pivot Tables. Also, merged cells are usually hard to find and can cause errors in your VBA macros. That’s why Power-user provides this cool tool
that will let you find and, if you want, unmerge all cells in your Excel sheet.

1 Click on “Merged cells manager” 2 Check the merged cells

A form opens Click the hyperlink to view the cells

3 Unmerge cells 4 Ignore

Click on “Unmerge” for just unmerging cells, or Click “Ignore” for range you don’t
“Unmerge and fill down” to duplicate the want to unmerge, it will hide the
content on every formerly merged cell range from the form
Clean formulas
When formulas get complicated in Excel, you need all the help you can get to understand and fix it. Very often, Excel uselessly adds the name of
the active sheet in the formula references. For instance, if you are in Sheet1, you don’t want your formula to be “=Sheet1!A1” but you want it to
be a simple “A1”. Use the Clean formulas feature to remove all redundancies in all the formulas of the active sheet. It will make things easier.

1 Before
Formulas have redundancies, referring uselessly to “Sheet1!”

2 After
Formulas have been cleaned up and are shorter, making life easier for everyone!
Copy-paste visible cells only
A classic painful situation in Excel is when you are working with filtered data and you want to copy the data from one column into another. In this
situation, Excel will paste the values without taking into account the filter, potentially causing troubles to your data set. With the “Copy-paste
visible cells only”, Power-user provides you with a simple way to get yourself out of this situation.

1 Click on “Copy-paste visible cells only”

2 Select the source range

Select the data you want to copy (in the example on the right,
it is the data in column C)

3 Select the destination range

Select the cells where you want to paste the copied data (in the
example on the right, it is the cells in column A). The number of
cells should be the same in the source and destination ranges.
UnPivot table
UnPivot table allows you to transform a double-entry table into a database. This can save you hours if you need to build a database and will give
you the possibility to use some of Excel’s sweet features on your data, like slicers to display data and charts based on the user’s choice.
Country City January February March April
USA Chicago 1 2 3 4
USA Atlanta 5 6 7 8
USA Dallas 9 10 11 12
France Paris 13 14 15 16
France Lyon 17 18 19 20
Transform a table... UK London 21 22 23 24
Italy Rome 25 26 27 28

Unpivot table

Country City
USA Chicago January 1
USA Chicago February 2
USA Chicago March 3
USA Chicago April 4
USA Atlanta January 5
USA Atlanta February 6
USA Atlanta March 7 Into a database...
USA Atlanta April 8
USA Dallas January 9
USA Dallas February 10
USA Dallas March 11
USA Dallas April 12
Absolute / Relative
Some time you may write some formulas with relative reference when they should have been absolute, for instance. If you realize it after some
time, you could need to re-write a good part of your Excel sheet. Not with this feature, that will let you convert formulas from absolute to relative,
or partially relative, and the other way round.

1 Select the range you want to modify

2 Click on “Absolute / Relative on the ribbon”

A form opens

3 Select the type of conversion you want to make

You can change formulas to fully absolute, fully
relative, absolute row and relative columns or relative
rows and absolute columns

4 Click “Ok”
Your choice will apply
Calculate selection
When you are working on very large Excel files, calculations start slowing down, and it can make you wait several minutes every time Excel
recalculates formulas. If you want to recalculate just a few cells without wasting your time watching Excel running, just use this Power-user utility
and only the cells in your current selection will be calculated.
Power-user functions (1/4)
Power-user gives you access to new powerful functions in Excel, which you can use directly in your spreadsheets.

1 Click the Functions button next to the address bar

2 Select Power-user in the drop-down list to view all Power-user functions

Power-user functions (2/4)
Power-user gives you access to new powerful functions in Excel, which you can use directly in your spreadsheets.
Function Description Argument
RangeExists Checks if the named range exists in the defined sheet sheet_name: Enter the name of the sheet that should contain the desired range. sheet_name should be provided as a text string.
range_name: Enter the name of the range you are looking for. range_name should be provided as a text string, matching a named range. Range names can be
found under Formulas / Name Manager.
ShapeExists Checks if the named shape exists in the defined sheet sheet_name: Enter the name of the sheet that should contain the desired shape. sheet_name should be provided as a text string.
shape_name: Enter the name of the shape you are looking for. shape_name should be provided as a text string, matching a named range. Shape names can be
found under Format / Selection Pane.
SheetExists Checks if the named shape sheet exists in the active sheet_name: Enter the name of the sheet that you are looking for. sheet_name should be provided as a text string.
workbook
LastCell Returns the value of the last cell (bottom right) in the sheet_name: Enter the name of the sheet of which you want to extract the last cell value. sheet_name should be provided as a text string.
defined sheet
LastCellAddress Returns the address of the last cell (bottom right) in the sheet_name: Enter the name of the sheet of which you want to extract the last cell address. sheet_name should be provided as a text string.
defined sheet
LastColumnNumber Returns the number of the last column (bottom right) in sheet_name: Enter the name of the sheet of which you want to extract the last column number. sheet_name should be provided as a text string.
the defined sheet
LastRowNumber Returns the number of the last row (bottom right) in the sheet_name: Enter the name of the sheet of which you want to extract the last row number. sheet_name should be provided as a text string.
defined sheet
SheetName Returns the name of the sheet that contains the reference reference_cell: Provide the reference of any cell in the sheet of which you want to extract the name.
cell.
HasFormulas Checks if the reference cell has formulas. reference_cell: Provide the reference of the cell for which you want to check if it contains formulas.
IsMerged Checks if the reference cell is merged with other cells. reference_cell: Provide the reference of the cell for which you want to check if it is merged with others.
SumColor Returns the sum of cells in the selected range that have range: Provide the reference of the range that contains the values you want to sum.
the same fill color as the reference cell. reference_color_cell: Provide the reference of a cell that has the fill color you want to use as a condition to sum numbers.
CountColor Returns the number of cells in the selected range that range: Provide the reference of the range that contains the values you want to count.
have the same fill color as the reference cell. reference_color_cell: Provide the reference of a cell that has the fill color you want to use as a condition to count the data.
SumFromAllSheets Returns the sum of the values in the reference cell for all reference_range: Provide the reference of the range that contains the data you want to sum in all sheets of the workbook.
sheets in the active workbook. include_active_sheet: Type TRUE if the sum should include the current sheet and FALSE to exclude it from the sum.
Power-user functions (3/4)
Power-user gives you access to new powerful functions in Excel, which you can use directly in your spreadsheets.
Function Description Argument
CountUnique Returns the number of unique values in the reference range: Provide the reference of the range that contains the data where you want to count the number of visible values.
range.
CountVisible Returns the number of visible cells in the reference range. range: Provide the reference of the range that contains the data where you want to count the number of unique values.

UsedRange Returns the address of the range that is being used in the sheet_name: Enter the name of the sheet of which you want to extract the used range address. sheet_name should be provided as a text string.
defined sheet.
CountWords Returns the number or words in a range that contains text. range: Provide the reference of the range that contains the text of which you want to extract the number of words.

SlicerItems Returns the list of items selected in the defined slicer. slicer_name: Enter the name of the slicer of which you want to extract the selected items. slicer_name should be provided as a text string. To find a slicer's name,
right-click it, click 'Slicer Settings' and look for 'Name to use in formulas'.
Vlookup_Max Returns the maximum value of all results that match lookup_value: Provide the reference of the cell containing the 'key' for which you are looking to the maximum of corresponding values.
lookup value. table_array: Provide the reference of the range containing the lookup_value in the leftmost column and the expected result in any other column.
column_number: Provide the number of the column that contains the expected result.
Vlookup_Min Returns the minimum value of all results that match lookup_value: Provide the reference of the cell containing the 'key' for which you are looking to the minimum of corresponding values.
lookup value. table_array: Provide the reference of the range containing the lookup_value in the leftmost column and the expected result in any other column.
column_number: Provide the number of the column that contains the expected result.
Hlookup_Max Returns the maximum value of all results that match lookup_value: Provide the reference of the cell containing the 'key' for which you are looking to the maximum of corresponding values.
lookup value. table_array: Provide the reference of the range containing the lookup_value in the topmost row and the expected result in any other row.
row_number: Provide the number of the row that contains the expected result.
Hlookup_Min Returns the minimum value of all results that match lookup_value: Provide the reference of the cell containing the 'key' for which you are looking to the minimum of corresponding values.
lookup value. table_array: Provide the reference of the range containing the lookup_value in the topmost row and the expected result in any other row.
row_number: Provide the number of the row that contains the expected result.
CAGR Returns the Compound Annual Growth Rate between 2 ending_value: Provide the value of the series at the end of the period considered for the CAGR.
values for a give number of years. beginning_value: Provide the value of the series at the beginnig of the period considered for the CAGR. beginning_value cannot be null.
number_of_years: Provide the number of years on which the CAGR is performed, i.e. the number of years separating the ending_value from the
beginning_value.

Word_n Returns the n-th word from a text. text: Text or reference from which you want to extract the n-th word.
Word_position: Provide the position of the word you want to extract. The value should be an integer.
Concatenate_Range Returns the concatenation of all cells within the defined Reference_Range: Provide the range from which you want to concatenate all the cells.
range. Separator: Optionnally, add a a separator between each cell that is concatenated. The separator is a string of characters.
Weighted_Average Returns the average of values in a column weighted by the Values: Provide the range containing the values you are calculating the average of.
values in another column. Weights: Provide the range containing the weights for the average.
Power-user functions (4/4)
Power-user gives you access to new powerful functions in Excel, which you can use directly in your spreadsheets.
Function Description Argument
1
Stock Returns financial information related to a stock (source Ticker: Group of letters that represents the stock on financial markets.
IEX). Press F9 to refresh formulas. Item: This is the data you want to return, such as "marketCap", "sector", "latestPrice", "high", "low", "peRatio", "change", "changePercent", "companyName",
"primaryExchange", "calculationPrice", "open", "openTime", "close", "closeTime", "latestSource", "latestTime", "latestUpdate", "latestVolume",
"iexRealtimePrice", "iexRealtimeSize", "iexLastUpdated", "delayedPrice", "delayedPriceTime", "extendedPrice", "extendedChange", "extendedChangePercent",
"extendedPriceTime", "previousClose", "iexMarketPercent", "iexVolume", "avgTotalVolume", "iexBidPrice", "iexBidSize", "iexAskPrice", "iexAskSize",
"marketCap", "peRatio", "week52High", "week52Low", "ytdChange"
1
Stock_History Returns financial data history for a stock (source IEX). Ticker: Group of letters that represents the stock on financial markets.
Press F9 to refresh formulas. Item: This is the data you want to return, such as "close", "open", "high", "low", "volume", "changePercent", "change", "unadjustedVolume", "vwap", "label",
"changeOverTime"
Date: Specify the date for which you want the item's value
1
Stock_Dividends Returns the dividend per action paid for a stock (source Ticker: Group of letters that represents the stock on financial markets.
IEX). Press F9 to refresh formulas. Year: This is the year for which you want the total dividends paid per stock (must be in the last 5 years)
[Quarter]: Optionnaly, specify a quarter (1, 2, 3 or 4)
1
Stock_Financials Returns information related to the financial statements of Ticker: Group of letters that represents the stock on financial markets.
a stock (source IEX). Press F9 to refresh formulas. Item: This is the data you want to return, such as "grossProfit", "costOfRevenue", "operatingRevenue", "totalRevenue", "operatingIncome", "netIncome",
"researchAndDevelopment", "operatingExpense", "currentAssets", "totalAssets", "totalLiabilities", "currentCash", "currentDebt", "totalCash", "totalDebt",
"shareholderEquity", "cashChange", "cashFlow", "operatingGainsLosses"
Year: This is the year for which you want the total dividends paid per stock (must be in the last 5 years)
Stock_SectorPerformance Returns the performance (in %) of a sector for the current Sector: Sector name, e.g. "Technology", "Industrials", "Energy", "Financial Services", "Communication Services", "Real Estate", "Consumer Cyclical", "Consumer
1
trading day (source IEX). Press F9 to refresh formulas. Defensive", "Basic Materials", "Healthcare“, "Utilities". Tip: get the sector with the "Stock" function
1
Stock_News Returns news related to a stock (source IEX). Press F9 to Ticker: Group of letters that represents the stock on financial markets.
refresh formulas. Item: This is the data you want to return, such as "headline", "source", "url", "summary" or "related"

We have combined these stock functions to give you a ready-made analysis of

the company of your choice! Click here to download the template!

1 Data provided for free by IEX. View IEX’s Terms of Use

Paste exact formulas
Normally when you paste a formula to another cell in Excel, the formula’s relative references change. With this feature, you can paste formulas
exactly as they were, without changing the references.

Normal pasting

Paste exact formula

Swap positions
You can use this tool to swap the position of 2 equal-size ranges, or of 2 shapes or charts on your spreadsheet.

Swap ranges Swap shapes Swap charts

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“mirror” image of the source is created

3 Update the source

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Library – Templates
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Click the Library and then Word templates

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Library – Icons (1/2)
Icons are the ideal tool to illustrate a concept and make it more digest. They have become an essential part of modern communication
standards. You can access over 4,000 icons. Most of them can be edited, resized and colored as PowerPoint shapes.

1 Click “Library” / “Icons”

A window opens.

Click to insert an icon

2 You an use the search bar to search for specific keywords,
look only in a specific category or just scroll through icons.
Use the “Source” list to switch to a different library.

Edit shape icons

3 You can resize shape icons without deformation as they are
vectors, and you can recolor them just like any PowerPoint
shape.
You can also right-click an icon to apply pre-defined styles!
Library – Icons (2/2)
Icons are the ideal tool to illustrate a concept and make it more digest. They have become an essential part of modern communication
standards. You can access over 4,000 icons. Most of them can be edited, resized and colored as PowerPoint shapes.

Add optional libraries to Power-user (version 1.6.826 or
4 higher)
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Library – Pictures
Good quality pictures are hard to find on the Internet, and can expose companies to intellectual property infringement
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Insert Pictures from Bing

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Library – Maps
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