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Using the agenda element you can manage the agenda of your presentation, create a table of contents and add or rearrange individual chapters. All agenda slides are automatically kept in sync as you edit the presentation.
In the slide sorter view you can reorder agenda slides or copy, paste and duplicate them in the same manner as normal slides. If you change the order of chapters, all agenda slides are updated accordingly.
For example, if a logo or image is displayed on the left side of every agenda slide, you can lock the left edge to leave enough space between logo and agenda and the agenda element will grow to the right to accommodate longer chapter headings. You should choose the correct agenda placement after inserting the first chapter slide, as subsequent chapter slides will then use the same placement automatically.
The size of the agenda element is always determined dynamically, depending on the length and number of chapter headings. Therefore, you should lock two edges of the agenda element at most, so that in can grow and shrink by placing the other edges dynamically.
To change the position of a locked edge, drag the lock icon to another position. To unlock an edge and let think-cell place the agenda automatically again, simply drag the lock icon away from the ruler.
By default, the left and right edges of all agenda elements are snapped together across slides, as explained in 15.1.3 Snapping text boxes across slides. This means that when you fix the position of the edge of one of them, the corresponding edge of all other agenda elements is also moved and fixed to that position on their respective slides.
You can add or remove snap connections by dragging the handles that are shown when selecting the whole agenda element (see also 15.5 Unsnapping text boxes or changing snap connections). For example, if you would like the top edge of all agenda elements to always be in the same position on all agenda slides:
Now the top edges of the two agenda elements are also snapped together, so that their position on the slide will always be the same. When you add additional agenda slides, the top edges of the agenda elements on these slides will inherit this snap connection as explained in 19.9 Role model.
Lower-level chapters will only be shown on chapter slides of the same level and on the slide of the parent chapter. If a chapter with hidden sub-chapters is selected, a marker is shown below the beginning of the heading text. Clicking this double arrow takes you to the first chapter slide that shows the hidden sub-chapters.
During slide shows, a displayed slide number will jump whenever a hidden agenda slide is omitted. To prevent this, choose Remove Hidden Agenda Slides from the context menu of any chapter heading to remove all such slides from the presentation. To add content between a removed chapter slide and the first sub-chapter slide, choose Insert Hidden Agenda Slides and navigate to the desired location in the presentation.
It is possible to split the presentation into multiple sections, each with its own agenda. To do this, go to the first slide of the second section and choose Split Agenda from the Elements menu. A slide can be identified as a splitter slide by a marker in its top left corner.
Note: If you place the agenda splitter on the first agenda slide in the backup, the splitter would be moved along if you move this chapter later and would also be duplicated if you duplicate the agenda slide.
To add a slide showing all top-level chapters without any highlighting, choose Table of Contents from the Elements menu. If you have not yet defined any chapters, the slide will be empty, and will be populated when you add chapters. An example is shown below:
When a chapter heading is selected, the floating toolbar offers controls for changing the font size and style (see 6.5.1 Font), the fill (see 3.8.1 Color and fill) and the style of the outline (see 3.8.6 Line style). When an outline is used, you can also change its color.
The styling of a chapter heading is used for all chapters of the same type. For example, if you assign a blue fill and dashed outline to a highlighted top-level chapter heading, all other highlighted top-level chapters will be styled in the same way.
Using the floating toolbar you can also choose between predefined styles. Usually, only top-level headings are shown in the table of contents. The styles suffixed with (expanded) show all chapter headings.
When the second and any subsequent agenda slide is inserted in a presentation, it is created as a copy of the closest existing agenda slide, including shapes on the slide and the master setting. Thus, if the user has applied a specific slide master or custom layout to an agenda slide, this setting is inherited by all agenda slides that are created later.
On this page, we highlight some best practices you can apply right now to make your work with think-cell more effective. Our friend Daniel Galletta from Slide Science contributed some useful walkthrough videos we have linked below. Thanks, Dan, and keep up the good work!
After clicking on the Elements button, the symbols in the first two rows represent building blocks for process flows (see 16. Process flow), several helpful drawing objects (see 20. Presentation tools) and agenda slides (see 19. Agenda), while the other rows represent chart types (see 4. Introduction to charting).
Inserting an element into your presentation is very similar to inserting a PowerPoint shape. To create a new element on a slide, go to the think-cell toolbar and click the Elements button. Then, select the required element. You may notice small arrow markers around some of the elements. Moving the mouse over these markers lets you select rotated and flipped versions of these elements.
Once you have chosen an element, a rectangle will appear with the mouse pointer, indicating where the element will be inserted on the slide. You have two options when placing the element on the slide:
Most elements can also be rotated after insertion using a rotation handle. Simply select the element and drag the rotation handle to the desired position: Click with the left mouse button on the rotation handle and, while holding the button down, drag the handle to one of the four possible red-highlighted positions and release the button.
While dragging the resize handle, you can press PageUp and PageDown or scroll with the mouse wheel to switch to a different slide. The outline of the element you are resizing will appear in gray, and you can use shapes on that other slide as reference points, with the same snapping behavior as explained in 3.2 Inserting elements. When releasing the mouse button, you will be taken back to the original slide, where the selected size will be applied to the element. This makes it easy to align elements' positions and sizes across slides.
You can also set two or more elements to the same width or height. This also works if you include PowerPoint shapes in your selection. First, select all objects that you want to set to the same width or height (see 3.5.1 Multi-selection). Then, choose Same Height or Same Width from the context menu of an element included in the selection. All objects will be resized to the same height or width, respectively.
You can distinguish a feature by the orange frame that appears when the mouse pointer is over it. When you click it, the frame turns blue to mark it as the currently selected feature. Additionally a floating toolbar might appear. It contains a set of property controls you can use to give the feature a different look. It is a good idea to explore a newly-inserted element to get an overview of the features it is made of and their properties.
Note: You cannot remove data segments from a chart element in this way. All data segments shown are controlled by the internal datasheet. If you delete a cell from the internal datasheet, the corresponding data segment is removed from the chart element.
Note: Buttons which toggle the presence of a feature, e.g. if series labels are shown in a chart or not, change their state accordingly. For example, after you have chosen Add Series Label to add series labels to a chart element, the button changes to Remove Series Label. In the following, generally only the state of the button for adding the feature is shown.
To add single features to the selection, or to remove single features from the selection, hold down Ctrl while clicking. Again, this is the same way multi-selecting files works in Microsoft Windows Explorer.
Logical multi-selection is also possible using the keyboard: Pressing Ctrl+A repeatedly will successively select all features of ever more inclusive kinds to which the originally selected feature belongs. When a segment label of a stacked column chart has been selected, for example, first all segment labels of the same data series, then all segment labels of all series in the chart, and finally all labels in the chart.
Logical multi-selection is particularly useful if you want to colorize an entire data series in a chart element, or if you want to change the formatting of a range of labels. You can even use multi-selection to paste text into multiple labels at once (see 6.6 Pasting text into multiple labels).
As soon as a think-cell element is part of a multi-selection of slide elements, think-cell allows you to specify a reference element, which can, for example, define the target size when setting elements to the same size (see 3.4 Resizing elements) and the alignment target when aligning elements (see 3.7 Aligning and arranging).
The reference element, if any, is indicated by a small red dot shown in its center. It can be a think-cell element as well as a native PowerPoint shape. You can set the reference element to a particular element contained in a multi-selection by simply clicking on it.
Note: You probably know that in PowerPoint you can zoom in and out using the mouse wheel with the Ctrl key held down. Together with the panning feature from think-cell, using zoomed views for slide design becomes easy and fast.
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