Content Creation 9.2

New features & improvements

PowerPoint (Windows)

• Text elements (for the current master) can now be inserted by right-clicking on the current slide. In the right-click menu all text elements appear that are available on the first level of the respective master. If you also want to access text elements in subfolders, you can use this menu to open the sidebar as usual.
• A concept of upward compatibility (as far as technically possible) has been developed. This means that a chart created with version 9.2 can in general still be edited with version 9.0/9.1. New functions, such as formatting borders, are of course only available with the new version. The older version will usually reset/remove an unknown function. E.g. disabled connector lines (see point 4.) will reappear in an older version. If possible, however, the older version will try to ignore the new function, e.g. a formatted border remains formatted.
• Starting from Excel, it is now possible link cell ranges, Excel charts and shapes as an image to PowerPoint. These links can then also be managed via the Excel Link Manager and also support e.g. relative linking.
• Multiple selected charts can now be moved simply by drag&drop (previously a user had to start dragging the chart frame, now the dragging can start anywhere in the chart).
• The connector lines, which connect moved labels with the respective data point / Gantt object, can now be deactivated centrally or individually.
• empower Charts now supports superscript and subscript texts. Texts can be formatted accordingly in Excel. For texts that are entered via the UI (e.g. prefix and postfix), an input help is available on the UI.
• Customizings can now also be defined textually. This allows customers to define their own customizations (if they are interested) and also allows such customizations to remain unchanged in a new version.
• Full support of Office themes without restarting the Office application and with improved readability.
• In data charts, the borders of data points can now be formatted (color, thickness, style).
• In Gantt charts, multiple objects can be moved at once by dragging and dropping (even to other phases).
• It is now easier to use the controls to the left of the Gantt, e.g. for inserting new lines (previously, the mouse had to be positioned more precisely for this).
• Multiple texts in note columns of a Gantt chart can be selected (with Shift also ranges), these can then be formatted in bundles.
• We have approximately doubled the speed when applying the empower bullet formatting.

Solved problems

PowerPoint (Windows)

• We fixed an issue where certain template settings for bullets did not apply them correctly.
• We fixed an issue where invalid combinations of chapter divider page settings could be set when saving an agenda template, causing errors when creating an agenda.
• We fixed an issue where the Corporate Design Check did not display font color and size violations in specific PowerPoint versions.
• We fixed an issue where the link to design colors was not maintained when uploading SVG elements.
• We fixed an issue where the empower color picker applied the correct color values but not the associated references to the color scheme.
• We fixed an issue that caused an error message to be displayed after converting a presentation for a certain structure of the master.
• We fixed an issue where a chapter reference slide was not updating correctly when a slide is moved between the agenda cover sheet and the first divider slide.
• We fixed an issue where an additional blank layout was inserted when applying a chart template from QUAP.
• We fixed an issue where agenda items were scaled down when the agenda template was based on a two-column layout.
• We fixed an issue where in shapes the text color for bullets was not taken from the master even though the "Apply bullet and other formatting" option is enabled.
• We have fixed an issue where the shape stretching function in the Layout Tools did not correctly take into account a limit value and then did not fully execute the function.
• We fixed an issue where a search could not be performed in the library if one of the search terms contained a wildcard character at the beginning of the word.
• We have fixed a problem where the automatic language recognition did not take into account that only certain language variants are stored in the empower languages or should be used.
• We fixed an issue where a prompt to save the presentation was displayed if PowerPoint was closed again immediately after launch.
• We fixed an issue where the setting to ignore items in Design Check was not applied to all items in a multiple selection.

PowerPoint (macOS)

• We fixed an issue where an agenda could no longer be edited on macOS if the agenda was previously edited on Windows with the chapter separator page option disabled.
• We worked around an issue in Microsoft PowerPoint for macOS that prevented an agenda from being created if the agenda template contained a date placeholder in the header/footer.
• We fixed an issue where image placeholders were not positioned correctly when switching the agenda format.
• We fixed an issue that prevented the empower synchronization service from launching from PowerPoint.
• We fixed an issue where if all agenda templates were placed in subfolders, opening the agenda editor would cause PowerPoint to stop working.