Power-user

User guide v1.6.368

Welcome! This guide will provide you with an overview of how
you can use Power-user to your advantage, save time and
improve your presentations.

Power-user was designed to ease the life of business professional. To do so, we have
engineered many new features that will save time and effort on PowerPoint and Excel, and help
you make presentations more impactful.

If you have any suggestions, feel free to send us an email at hello@powerusersoftware.com

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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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Icons
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 2,000 icons. Most of them can be edited, resized and colored as PowerPoint shapes.
Insert Shape icons,
1 Click “Icons”
A window opens.
Use the search bar to find
icons using keywords
Picture icons or flags. Get more icons

Browse or search
2 User the search bar or browse into categories

Select and insert

3 You can insert multiple icons at once. Click OK or
press Enter to validate your choice. Icons will be
inserted in the color scheme of your presentation

Edit
4 Resize icons with deformation or recolor them
like any PowerPoint shape

Icons are organized by categories,

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Maps
Maps are a powerful visual element on a slide. It makes ideas clear and easy to remember, while showing your
audience that you know what you are talking about.

Click “Maps” in the ribbon Click the map of your choice Customize
1 A window opens. Maps are ordered in categories
2 It will insert on the current slide.
3 Each region is independent, so you can
such as Continents, Countries and Cities color them, add text, add icons, zoom on
a region, etc.

Schleswig-Holstein

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Hamburg
Bremen

Niedersachsen
Berlin
Brandenburg
Sachsen-Anhalt
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Sachsen
Thüringen
Hessen

Rheinland-Pfalz

Saarland
Bayern

Baden-Württemberg

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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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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 the “Special charts” button in the ribbon and Edit your chart using the classic data sheet
1 select the diagram of your choice
2 For waterfall, the chart will automatically update when
A window opens. Click the type of chart you want to insert. you add or remove columns or ligns. 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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Pictures
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.

Insert Pictures from Power-user

1 Insert pictures from the web
A window opens where you can search images from Bing
2 It will open an offline library of pictures. Those pictures are in high quality
Images or from other sources like Flicker or OneDrive. You can and are royalty-free: you can freely use them for any commercial use.
filter to have only Creative Commons licenses, or based on Just click a picture to insert it on the current slide.
pictures size or color for instance.

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Sticky Notes, Stamps and Progress tools
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 Stamps Progress tools

1 Quickly add a short comment
2 Mark all your slides as “Draft”, or
3 Add an element on all your slides
on your slide. “Confidential”, or customize it with showing how far you are in the
“Pick from selection”. current presentation

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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Mini Slide & Summary

Summary Mini slide

Select a group of slides to sum up Click ‘Add mini-slide’ in the ‘Tools’ group
1 Those slides need to have a “real” title.
1 A window opens. Type the number of the slide you
would like to miniaturize.

Click “Summary” in the ‘Tools’ group Type ‘Insert’

2 A new slide will be created, with the titles of all the
2 A miniature of the slide is created on your active slide,
previously selected slides. Each line also has an in a picture format.
hyperlink to you can easily move to the slide it refers to.

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Templates (1/3) – General principles
Templates
1 Click an image to insert the template in your
current presentation

Search bar
2 Type a template’s name to find it

Categories
3 Templates are grouped in
categories. You can use it to quickly
find templates.

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Templates (2/3) – Source Vs destination colors

By default, templates are

1 inserted in your presentation’s
color theme.

2
Use this contextual menu to
choose between keeping source
or destination format.
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Templates (3/3) – Types of templates

• 220 beautiful templates provided by

Power-user More Power-user
My templates Company templates Power-user
templates templates • Direct access from PowerPoint, even
templates
offline
Company
• Very generic and easy to reuse
presentation
• Save your own slides and access them
Offers later from any presentation
My templates
• Organize your slides in categories, such
as CVs, credentials, etc.
Credentials • Shared templates at company level (this
feature is only enabled for companies)
• Ensures all employees have up to date /
CVs Company
official templates, company
templates
presentation, figures etc.
…..
• No Internet required to access the
shared library, just required to update it
More • Access additional templates on third-
templates party specialized websites

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Clipboard
The « Clipboard » button opens a panel on the left so you
can copy multiple elements.

Copy up to 24 elements, and they will be saved 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
This group has plenty of tools which you can use to clean your presentation:

Click the arrow to perform

cleaning operations individually

Click “Clean” to open this window

Replaces double blanks in text by a single space in your entire presentation

Remove all empty placeholders in your presentation, such as “Insert your text here”
Removes shape effects like 3D, shadows, bevels, etc. on your selection or in the entire presentation
Replaces slide footers, page numbers or date on all slides in your presentation
Remove notes below your slides for your entire presentation
Remove animations on all slides in your presentation
Remove all transitions between slides in your presentation
Clean your master by removing all unused layout slides

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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.

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 (1/2)
Agenda is a powerful tool to let you build the Agenda of your presentation. Create a section for each part of your presentation, then just
automatically create or update all the agenda pages in your presentation. You can also change your slides titles from here to write a coherent story.

Customize
agenda design
Create, rename or
move sections

Click to move to a
specific slide

Agenda pages like this are automatically created at the beginning of each section. All Refresh agenda pages
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Agenda (2/2)
Agenda is a powerful tool to let you build the Agenda of your presentation. Create a section for each part of your presentation, then just
automatically create or update all the agenda pages in your presentation. You can also change your slides titles from here to write a coherent story.

Take the design of your choice for agenda pages

Customize the design of agenda pages :

- Choose between different designs
- Use full table of contents or simple
section dividers
- Change the color of the agenda
- Add a hide a cover page, slide
numbers or section numbers
Pipette
The Pipette is maybe he most powerful tool in the Power-user suite. Contrary to the format painter, the pipette grants the user
absolute flexibility when pasting format. You can define which shape feature to apply and on which shapes. For instance:

• Apply any combination of the memorized shape (fill or line color and style, shape size, shape position, font style and color, text
anchor, margins, bullet style) to other objects of your presentation
• Apply the reference bullets to all shapes in your presentation. Every line of every shape with look as in the reference shape: if
line has a level-1 bullet, it will be changed to the reference level-1 bullet style, if line has a level-2 bullet, it will be changed to
the reference level-2 bullet style, etc.
• Adjust roundness of shapes angles
• Memorize the position of a shape and apply it later to other shapes
• Format simultaneously all titles in your presentation
• Copy and paste the exact dimensions of a chart

Select a shape and click “Pipette – Copy format” in the ribbon

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

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

Define which characteristics you want to paste for the shape

3 format, text format and the shape position

Define the shapes to which you want to apply it (selected

4 shapes, slide titles, all shapes with the same fill 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 shapes position
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.

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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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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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Text1 Text1

Text1 Text1
Text2 Text2 Text2 Text2
Text3 Text3

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.

 Send your presentation or just a few slides by email. It will be added as attachment:
 Send the entire presentation as a PPTX file
 Send just the currently selected slides as a PPTX file
 Send the entire presentation as a PDF file
 Send the entire presentation as a PPSX file (slideshow)
 Save your presentation or just a few slides on your computer, in the same folder as the current presentation:
 Save the entire presentation as a PPTX file
 Save just the currently selected slides as a PPTX file
 Save the entire presentation as a PDF file
 Save the entire presentation as a PPSX file (slideshow)
 Add or remove a password to protect your presentation before sharing it

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

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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Group “Charts” > 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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Group “Charts” > Mekko charts
Mekko (also known as Marimekko) are a powerful type of chart that ideally represent multiple dimensions of data on a single graph. They can be
used in particular to show the relative market positions of several companies or products.

1 Click on “Create Mekko data sheet” 2 Fill the yellow cells with your data
A sheet like the one below is created You can use values or formulas

Your data here

3 Customize appearance 4 Click on “Create Mekko chart”

Change fill / text colors in the A column to define the colors for The chart is generated based on your
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Group “Format” > 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.

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Group “Format” > 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.

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Group “Format” > 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

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Group “Cells” > 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

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Group “Cells” > 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.

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Group “Cells” > 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!

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Group “Clean” > 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

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Group “Clean” > 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
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Group “Clean” > 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!

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Group “Data” > 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.

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Group “Data” > 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
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Group “Formulas” > 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
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Group “Formulas” > 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.

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Group “Formulas” > Power-user functions (1/4)
Power-user gives you access to new powerful functions in Excel, which you can use directly in your spreadsheets.

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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.

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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.

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Power-user gives you access to new powerful functions in Excel, which you can use directly in your spreadsheets.
Function Description Argument
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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"
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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
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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)
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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
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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!

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provided for free by IEX. View IEX’s Terms of Use
Group “Tools” > 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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Group “Tools” > Paste as linked picture
This button regroups links to our website, our blog, this user guide, our social pages, our contacts information as
well as the license activation form to purchase a full version and a bonus list of all the best keyboard shortcuts.

1 Select any range, shape or chart

2 Click “Paste as linked picture” from the Power-user ribbon. A

“mirror” image of the source is created

3 Update the source

4 The mirror image updates as well!

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Power-user settings

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Adjust your personal settings
1 Go to File/Settings 2 Change your Power-user settings

• Turn off the prompts that inform you when

updates are available
• Change the directory to save Power-user
files
• Change the directory to save temporary files
• Turn off Power-user as the default tab
• Change default position of sticky notes
• Change default insertion format for
templates

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