Added support for ‘Index’ and ‘Multipler’ calculation modes on Total Difference, Level Difference and CAGR Arrows.
Updating chart data on charts with linked axes and axis breaks is now significantly faster.
Improved logic that determines when Ampler automatically changes axis number formatting to percentage.
Minor Chart Title improvements and fixes.
Added additional resiliency to Gantt charts if user had accidentally deleted required plot area shapes.
Lots of improvements when converting from other third party chart addins to Ampler Charts. These areas have been improved when converting: axes formatting, tick labels, tick marks, gridlines, segment labels, font sizes, trendlines on scatter charts, and pie/doughnut charts.
Fixed bug where changing activity level on Gantt charts while having activity label selected would not apply format correctly.
Various Series Share improvements.
Fixed edge case bug where the datasheet could sometimes revert back to prior data.
Increased the maximum number of allowed category labels from 75 to 100.
Fixed issue where an IT Security Policy could prevent the ‘Contact support’ feature from working.
Fixed bug where changing number format for a negative number with thousand separator would accidentally/incorrectly add 3 decimals.
Ampler Charts UI updates:
Added more shadow and an outline on menus to make them look more like Office.
Made Bold/Italic/Underline look more like Office.
Made toggle buttons look more like Office.
General UI updates:
Added outline to all ComboBoxes, TextBoxes and similar input fields.
Changed default font color to match Office.
Fixed various dark mode issues.
All scrollbars are now rounded to match Office.
Added rounded corners on various windows and image thumbnails (e.g. in New and Agenda).
Library UI updates:
Various buttons in Library panel is now grouped under a ‘more/…’ dropdown menu.
Made search filters more visible in Library.
Rounded corners on most thumbnails.
PowerPoint:
New ‘Group by column’ and ‘Group by row’ features.
Fixed bug where if you disable TOC and enable it again, then the first row in the TOC is highlighted.
Added support for defining a lower boundary for the agenda table, such that it doesn’t exceed the slide edge. Simply add a shape named ‘Agenda Max Size’ below the agenda table.
‘Symbols’ (quick access and recents) are now synchronized across PowerPoint and Word.
Improved the ‘Align in grid’ feature to handle more scenarios.
Fixed native Office chart layouts sometimes being saved with the wrong PlotBy setting causing charts to look weird when applying/inserting new charts.
Word:
The built-in ‘View gridlines’ toggle button is now available in the Toolbar Designer.
‘Track Changes’ is now temporarily disabled when changing Language to not create unnecessary ‘noise’.
Excel:
The built-in ‘Allow editing directly in cells’ is now available in the Toolbar Designer.
Outlook:
Fixed bug where the user’s selection for a custom field defined by an administrator for use in e-mail signatures would get continuously deleted.
Version 24.7.2172 (August 2024)
New features:
Ampler Charts:
Added support for having ‘Chart positions’ in Library.
Added support for adding a ‘Chart title’ on all chart types.
Added support for showing negative numbers without a minus-sign in front.
When dragging a Chart, Legend or Gantt, the ‘outer bounding box’ is now shown with a dashed border.
Gantt now automatically adds/deletes the Responsible and Comment column when the user adds/removes a responsible or comment in the Gantt datasheet.
Improved performance of creating a new Gantt chart.
Added 5 new ‘Label content’ for Total Labels on Mekko charts to show absolute and percentage extents.
Added new ‘Label content’ for CAGR, Level difference, and Total Difference to show ‘Multiple’ calculation.
Improved logic around changing data scale: now all labels and axes will be kept in-sync with regards to data scale when changing the data scale on one element.
PowerPoint:
Added new items in the Help menu.
Added confirmation popup when clicking on ‘Clean’ buttons through dropdown menu.
Updated ‘Round flags’ in Ampler Library.
Content in Library is now sorted using Windows-sort.
Improved Footnotes feature to utilize formatting of ‘AmplerFootnotes’ shape in slide master/slide layout.
Agenda:
The Agenda window now displays vertical separator lines between headers.
Added new checkbox to ‘hide’ underline from navigable Agenda links.
Word:
Added support for having Dynamic Fields inline.
Improvements:
Ampler Charts:
Now the label left click menu is closed when right clicking in a label that already has a text selection.
‘Distribute with Spacing’ now works with Ampler Charts.
Fixed bug where deleting the last row in the datasheet would sometimes delete the wrong series.
Fixed changing series type could sometimes apply to the wrong series.
Fixed edge case bug where clicking while Ampler Charts were busy could cause PowerPoint to crash or become unresponsive.
Fixed bug where datasheet overlay would sometimes not show.
Converting linked third party charts to Ampler Charts will now preserve the link and handle the 100% row intelligently.
Fixed bug when having a chart with an ‘Other series’ and then changing to a chart type that does not support having an ‘Other series’.
Fixed bug where category labels with custom text would shift to incorrect columns when adding a new column in the datasheet.
Fixed issue where chart themes would not always show up in the dropdown menu.
Fixed fill coloring bug when adding segment labels on data points that were visually small.
Fixed bug where new segment labels would not pick up the correct number format for percentage formatted data.
Fixed edge case where Gantt element thumbs for dragging could be mispositioned when elements were linked.
Added constraint to not automatically change number format so often for segment and total labels.
Removed ‘Save chart theme’ and ‘Save chart layout’ from Chart and Gantt right click menus.
Fixed bug when copy/pasting a chart inside the same presentation when the presentation has an embedded theme.
Fixed coloring bugs when copy/pasting charts around in general.
Fixed calculation of category total when hiding a series on a 100% chart.
Adding a y-axis will now utilize the data scale already set on segment labels.
Fixed bug where changing ‘Activity level’ while having focus in the ‘Activity label’ would not work.
Improved positioning of ‘Series share’ to reduce overlap with other elements.
Relaxed constraints on dragging axis min/max on Bubble charts such that cutting a bubble is now allowed.
Fixed edge case bug in automatic axis scale calculation for waterfall build-down charts.
Reduced the likelihood of accidentally clicking on the underlying PowerPoint chart instead of the Ampler Chart.
PowerPoint:
Fixed issue where it was not possible to edit names of some built in buttons in the Toolbar designer.
Agenda:
Fixed bug where it was not possible to update agenda title.
Fixed font coloring bug when navigable links have spelling errors.
Fixed bug where TOC title would not get updated when changed in Agenda window.
Fixed bug where it was not possible to have full border around highlighter row.
Fixed ‘Modified’ showing in Agenda window in a presentation without an agenda.
Fixed marker row not being applied correctly when re-applying the original layout.
Word:
Fixed issue with Dynamic Fields when ‘Track Changes’ was enabled.
Excel:
Fixed bug where clearing visualizations would not work if user had made certain changes to cells in Excel after showing visualizations.
Version 24.6.2137 (June 2024)
New features:
The ‘Email’ feature in PowerPoint, Word and Excel now supports the ‘New Outlook’.
Fixed bug with agenda formatting not propagating when updating.
Added option in Company Settings to show/hide license key for end users.
Added option to change ‘Arrow style’ for CAGR, Total Difference, and Level Difference. Also, this can now be configured as part of the Chart Theme.
Added option to hide arrow in Value Line.
Improvements:
Fixed various Series Share calculation bugs.
Integrated the ‘Footnotes’ feature with Ampler Charts, such that footnote references can now be placed in all chart element labels.
Ampler now reads Conditional Formatting and Fill Pattern from linked Excel sheets when using ‘Use Excel fill color’ for series coloring.
Fixed bug where opening data sheet on a large chart (and making no edits) would remove segment labels.
Clicking on Ctrl before dragging an Ampler Charts label will now hide drop anchors. Before this change it would only happen when clicking Ctrl after dragging had started.
Fixed axis breaks not working correctly on Line charts when the series crosses 0 on the x-axis.
Legend position is now locked to right-top by default.
Fixed bug where segment labels would lose their label content type when changing chart direction/orientation.
Improved positioning of Total Differences and corresponding labels (they can now be dragged to a custom position).
Activity row separators on Gantt can now be configured as part of the Chart Theme.
Fixed bug when calculating CAGR on Clustered Column charts when series contained years.
Version 24.5.2125 (May 2024)
New features:
Added button in category label right click menu to easily move category labels to the opposite side. This can be used as an alternative to dragging the category labels.
Added ‘Navigate to precedents/dependents’ feature in Excel.
Added built-in feature ‘Compatibility checker’ in Excel.
Improvements:
Fixed bug where the built-in Excel ‘Freeze pane’ button would sometime become grayed out.
Fixed auto-coloring of partial inputs in Excel.
Fixed placement of category labels on Stacked Column charts when all point values are negative and category labels were dragged to the opposite side. Now the category labels are placed correctly.
Inline comment shading is now applied on the inner range of the content control.
Dynamic fields popup in Word is now only shown when a user has a simple selection to reduce interference with selection.
‘Insert from Library’, ‘New’, etc. now uses local cached file instead of downloading from online (works better with MFA).
Fixed bug where Ampler could accidentally change the page layout upon startup in Word.
Possibly fixed bug where Excel would not close down entirely when file was saved on OneDrive, with auto-save on and closing while Office was auto-saving.
Improved chart converter when converting to Ampler Charts from other charting tools.
Waterfall formatting of individual points on the original chart is now maintained.
Values are now parsed correctly when there are axis breaks on the original chart.
Excel links are now brought over from the original chart.
Segment and total labels are now being consistently maintained when converting.
Converting a Stacked Column chart with a blank column would produce a category label with the category index in its text. Now the blank category name is maintained.
Updated Quick Start Guide to reflect new features.
Slide layouts are now only inserted as new slides if no modifications to the slide was made.
Updated the built-in ‘Library Only’ toolbar to also work in Word and Excel.
Improved E-mail Signatures to better support Outlook Online and New Outlook.
‘User Profile’ window can now be spawned outside the Outlook process.
Added policies to better control various aspects of E-mail S ignatures:
Option to make Built-in fields in the User Profile readonly/editable.
Option to make Ampler re-create signatures from scratch on every run.
Option to clear all user created signatures.
Option to not allow users to change their ‘Default new’ and ‘Default reply’.
Chart theme designer improvements:
Default markers for Line series can now be set.
Adding an y-axis now correctly picks up the formatting defined in the theme.
Added option to specifically target the 3 ‘Bar chart’ variants.
Fixed bug where built-in font dropdown could not be used when opened over an Ampler Chart.
Version 24.3.2060 (March 2024)
New features:
Fixed such that Office Cloud fonts are also showing in Ampler Charts font dropdown. This includes the new ‘Aptos’ font.
‘Insert from Library’ buttons now render as galleries.
Added feature to create custom dropdown with ‘More tools’.
Added support for a new Ampler Charts decorator: ‘Series share’.
Improvements:
Fixed a couple of DPI related issues (e.g., date picker in dynamic fields panel not clickable, and other minor flickering issues in Color Panel, Format Tools, Scan & Fix).
Fixed ‘None’ (empty) option not working in Dynamic Fields.
Fixed UI issue when dropdown in Dynamic Fields has very long texts.
Fixed sensitivity table with 2 variables not working in Excel.
Fixed Scan & Fix getting interrupted due to corrupted shapes in PowerPoint.
Fixed rendering of SVG sometimes not working in Library.
Double click in non-Ampler Charts textbox to select text is now possible when an Ampler Chart is overlapping with textbox.
Improved placement of tick labels when placed opposite of axis and overlap with e.g. CAGR/Total Difference.
Now it is possible to set the fill color in labels placed in the fixed activity in Gantt.
Improved ‘Number formats’ in Ampler Charts to support parentheses for negative numbers. Improved support for countries that use something else than comma and period as decimal and thousand separators.
Version 24.1.2029 (January 2024)
New features:
Added new customizable dropdown feature, which allows users to create a custom dropdown button in the Toolbar Designer.
Added thousands of new shapes, icons, and slides freely available in the ‘Ampler Library’ source in the Library panel across PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
Improvements:
Bug fixes for ‘Align in grid’ in PowerPoint.
Fixed bug where applying bullets to a textbox in PowerPoint would overwrite shape name and z order.
Fixed minor bugs in Footnotes feature in PowerPoint.
Version 23.12.1987 (December 2023)
New features:
Added support for linking to entire presentations in Library.
Added folder rule to easily make entire folder structure linkable.
Added support for setting fill color on Series Names Labels and Gantt Process/Bar/Milestone/Bracket Labels.
Added behavior to not auto-adjust heights of Process and Bar on Gantt when a label is inside. User can revert back to automatic mode.
Added folder rule to control that Dynamic Slides should keep the slide layout of the selected slide instead of applying the slide layout defined in the Dynamic Slide.
Made it possible to click on yellow drag handles of built-in shapes positioned on top of an Ampler Chart.
Improvements:
Improved ‘Resize object’ UI to allow empty inputs.
Ensured that Indent/Outdent buttons are always slightly visible in the Agenda window.
Dynamic Field improvements: 1) Added support for Agenda with language dependent title. 2) Current document language is added to language dropdown if it nearly matches a defined language (e.g., ‘es-ar’ and ‘es-es’). 3) Improved handling of dropdown that allows selecting a ‘[None]’ value.
Fixed bug in Level Difference calculation of percentage value for Line series on a Stacked Column Combination chart.
Fixed edge case bug where tick labels on an x-axis in date-mode could get ‘stuck’ with old values.
‘Texbox with bullets’ now supports bullet levels without visible bullets.
‘Texbox with bullets’ will now keep the bullet size scaling defined in the placeholder in the slide master.
Bug fix: made it possible to clear prefix/suffix through number format dropdown.
Bug fix: Inserting a chart in a presentation with an embedded Ampler Chart theme would not apply the right font size defined in the theme.
When indenting an activity label on a Gantt Chart, it will now follow the slide master default textbox tab indentation.
Improved BrandFolder Library integration such that it is now possible to only show content from a specific BrandFolder/collection.
Version 23.11.1960 (November 2023)
New features:
Added Library integration with EasyDB.
Dynamic Fields (PowerPoint/Word): Added support for Empty choice in language dependent dropdowns in Dynamic Fields.
Dynamic Fields (PowerPoint/Word): Improved handling of scenario where user selects a ‘related’ language variant (e.g. ‘Austrian German’ vs ‘German’).
Adding new activities on Gantt will now copy formatting from the selected activity.
Improved Gantt chart themes to pick up & apply more formatting properties.
Now it’s easier to re-add missing category labels for a specific column by simply right clicking on a single point and re-adding the category label.
Improvements:
Dynamic Fields (PowerPoint/Word): Fixed language dependent date formatting not using the right language (e.g. ‘Oktober’ vs ‘October’).
Fixed Symbol dropdown not refreshing after changing Quick Access Symbols in PowerPoint/Word.
‘Save as PDF’ now exports as PDF/A compliant.
Fixed bug in getting the selected chart when multiple charts with the same name exist in the same sheet in Excel.
Fixed Library icon showing as opened even though Library panel was closed.
Fixed edge case bugs in ‘Distribute’ when having horizontal/vertical Line shapes selected.
Added vertical separator left of toggle switches in Ampler Charts right click menus.
Added plus icons to Gantt chart right click menus.
Fixed Gantt elements being mispositioned on empty Gantt charts.
Fixed Gantt positioning issue when changing font size.
Fixed bug in getting the right series name when series name is entered as a number in Excel on a transposed Ampler Chart.
Version 23.10 (October 2023)
New features:
New UI for right click menus in Ampler Charts.
Axis visibility can now be controlled in a chart theme.
Added new ‘Repair template button’ to apply current template from Library in Word.
Improved compatibility with other add-ins using WebView2.
Improvements:
Fixed MFA prompt sometimes being shown twice.
Fixed library search filter containing space not working.
Fixed bug in pickup/apply style in PowerPoint and Word when having a text selection.
Fixed Gantt datasheet being cleared, validation not being applied and labels getting a 00:00:00 timestamp.
Improved Scan & Fix to better handle when built-in ‘Track Changes’ is enabled in Word.
Fixed bug where applying table layout did not change font color.
Distribute, Stretch, Split shape, Align shape to table, Align shape to grid, now close on single-click outside window.
Fixed Table of Contents in Agenda feature sometimes being placed at wrong position.
Inspect Formulas (Excel): Dependents and precedents now navigate on single click.
Inspect Formulas (Excel): Fixed bug where navigating across sheets would reset the precedents tree-view.
Version 23.8.1875 (August 2023)
New features:
New ‘Send selected slides to Appendix’ button.
Magic select is now a split button. Default action as today. In dropdown you can choose to select similar shapes based on 17 different parameters (fill, outline, text, dimensions, etc.).
‘Stretch to inner’ can now cycle and use a defined spacing.
Improvements:
The ‘Stamps’ feature now work correctly when presentation contains more than 1 slidemaster.
Distribute with defined space now initializes with average distance between selected elements.
Improved ‘Align in grid’ initial guesstimate of rows and columns. Also now uses average distance between elements.
Fixed various dark mode issues.
‘Split table to textboxes’ now keeps border formatting of the original table.
Fixed warning when breaking a linked chart and then updating the chart afterwards.
Version 23.7.1857 (July 2023)
New features:
Added feature to ‘Center across selection’ in Excel.
Added support for having mixed subscriptions (i.e., Teams functionality) on a single license key. This means that Library sources can now be defined to only be visible for certain teams. A toolbar per team is now also possible. Management of seats across different teams running on different subscription plans is now also possible.
Added dropdown menu with customizable resource items. Can be customized through Company Settings.
Preferred Footnote style and pattern can now be defined in slide master and in Company Settings.
Now it’s possible to click on the native ‘drag handle’ and ‘rotation handle’ on native PowerPoint shapes that are positioned within an Ampler Chart.
Improvements:
Fixed ‘Scaled Resize’ not working from Tool Pane in PowerPoint.
Fixed ‘Apply template’ button in right click menu not working in Library panel in Word.
Fixed bug where Scan & Fix would sometimes highlight the wrong word in Word.
Applying a table layout now keeps existing emphasis (bolding, italic, superscript, etc.) in the existing table in PowerPoint.
Heavily improved the ‘Wrong spelling’ Scan & Fix rule to be able to catch more scenarios in PowerPoint and Word.
Fixed increase/decrease font size not working when a group of shapes was selected in PowerPoint.
Moved ‘Color settings’ to ‘Misc’ in Company Settings.
Fixed ‘Paste Special’ in Excel not working correctly when operating on a single row containing one or more blank cells, when ‘Transpose’ was checked.
Version 23.6.1849 (June 2023)
New features:
New Clean options in PowerPoint: ‘Remove ink’ and ‘Remove shapes outside slide area’.
Improvements:
Added strike-through to cycle cell styles in Excel.
Improved handling of empty values in Dynamic Fields in PowerPoint and Word.
Labels on Ampler Charts can now be removed by clicking backspace.
Series and category labels in Ampler Charts now pick up the Excel formatting. E.g., if series uses a percent formatted cell.
Ampler Chart highlight could be misplaced when running with multiple monitors in mixed DPI.
Improved Gantt chart left menu UX.
Improved some dragging scenarios in Gantt.
Fixed align features to work on Gantt.
Footnote improvements: 1) New Scan & Fix rules that check for consistent footnote style across entire presentation. 2) Improved existing rules to handle new styles and patterns. 3) Footnotes in tables are now supported.
Version 23.5.1821 (May 2023)
New features:
Added new Footnotes feature in PowerPoint that allows to easily add footnotes including references.
Added new ‘Insert footnote with tab’ in Word. This enables you to control the indentation between the footnote reference number and text using native Word styles.
Improvements:
Improved handling of Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) in Library when connecting to a folder on SharePoint.
Fixed edge cases where align and adjust features would sometimes not work on Ampler Charts.
Added feature to control when the fiscal year (i.e. Q1) starts for the quarter header on Ampler Gantt Charts.
Added feature to control the ordering of legend entries on Ampler Charts.
Improved Dynamic Fields, such that it now supports language dependent fields.
Fixed ‘Paste Object’ not working for some language versions of Office, when pasting from Excel to PowerPoint.
Fixed some UI issues when running Ampler in Dark Mode.
Tons of bug fixes and various improvements.
Version 23.3 (March 2023)
New features:
Now it’s possible to set when the fiscal year begins in the Quarter header on Gantt charts. E.g. Q1 could start in July for skewed financial years.
Added feature to control order of legend entries.
Improvements:
Fixed various bugs in ‘Inline comment’ feature in Word.
Fixed various bugs in ‘Inline comment’ feature in PowerPoint and Word.
Lots of bug fixes for Ampler Charts.
Version 23.2.1717 (February 2023)
New features:
Added Dynamic Fields feature in Word and PowerPoint that allows for localization of templates as well as automatically populating documents with data from the current user’s AD user profile.
Tooltips on Gantt now show the duration between periods as well as the number of work days.
Added new setting in Word to automatically spawn the built-in Styles pane when starting Word.
The Chart Layout and Chart Theme dropdowns will now only show layouts and themes relevant to the selected chart.
Harvey balls in Gantt now size together with the height of the activity row.
Improvements:
Improved placement of series label connectors and milestone labels in Ampler Charts.
Fixed number format reverting when having text cursor focus inside a label on Ampler Charts and changing the number format through the dropdown menu.
Fixed legend labels sometimes being misplaced in Ampler Charts.
Fixed built-in error popup that could occur in PowerPoint after running Clean.
Improved Agenda with performance improvements, support for having inside horizontal borders, showing only the start time in the time slot column, and various other minor bug fixes.
Fixed built-in error popup that could occur in Word due to corrupted building blocks.
Fixed in-line comment bug occuring when inserting in-line comment while in Design Mode in Word.
Fixed an issue that could cause the Excel window to be slow when dragging.
Improved handling of copying native charts from Excel to PowerPoint.
Fixed bug in Excel table layouts where the Total Row would sometimes not get formatted correctly.
Fixed bug where shortcuts for Cycles in Excel would not persist when set through Company Settings.
Added support for applying Font Size when applying a header style in Excel.
Fixe various minor UI issues when running Ampler in Dark Mode.
Version 22.12.1641 (December 2022)
New features:
Added Library integration with Bynder.
Added spell check button in Language dropdown in PowerPoint and Word.
Updated the default Ampler toolbar. Now, Ampler also sports an updated toolpane in the right hand side. It is available via the small Ampler logo button in the toolbar.
Updated the user guides for ‘Ampler for PowerPoint’ and ‘Ampler Charts’.
Improvements:
Improved the ‘Fix bullets’ feature such that it now works on tables. Also it will now keep any existing formatting (e.g. bolding).
Improved the Gantt theme designer to support different Scale header formattings.
Fixed some false positives in Scan & Fix that could occur when having URLs in text.
Fixed bug when inserting an image from Library into a shape, causing the original Z-order of the shape to change.
Fixed bug when saving a presentation located on OneDrive that would interfere with the undo stack causing extra entries to appear on the undo stack, thereby requiring users to click Ctrl+Z multiple times to undo their last action.
Fixed bug where the default Word/PowerPoint template would sometimes not be set on the local machine.
Fixed a Windows 11 bug where the Ampler Charts datasheet would sometimes not react to mouse button clicks.
Version 22.11.1615 (November 2022)
New features:
Added ‘Cell address’, ‘Row number’ and ‘Column letter’ formulas to Excel.
Added ‘Negate cells’ feature that negates the sign of the selected cells in Excel.
Added ‘In-line comments’ feature in Word.
Added feature to save text styles in Library in Word.
Added new Scan & Fix rule to check for UK/US spelling differences in PowerPoint and Word.
Added new ‘Stamp’ feature to easily apply stamps such as ‘Confidential’, ‘Internal’, etc. in PowerPoint.
Added ‘Align shapes against table cells’ feature in PowerPoint.
Added more positioning options to the ‘Create table’ window in PowerPoint.
Added feature to ‘Lock aspect ratio’ of selected shapes in PowerPoint. Available in the ‘Fit’ dropdown menu.
Added feature to snap the legend of an Ampler Chart, such that it moves together with the chart.
Improvements:
Improved addin load time in Word, Excel and Outlook with up to 30% in some scenarios.
Fixed edge case where double-clicking on OK in the Table Creator would create 2 tables.
Improved the Scan & Fix rule that checks for dot at end of line in bulleted lists to suggest based on all textboxes on the slide.
Fixed bug where Ampler related windows could sometimes show as transparent with no content.
Heavily improved performance of table layouts and cycles in Excel when applied on millions of cells.
Fixed such that the Agenda window will now default to ‘Agenda’ or ‘Agenda and TOC’ depending on the configuration of the selected layout.
Fixed custom columns in Agenda not working.
Improved Ampler Charts creation performance.
Fixed edge case UI bug when dragging multiple elements on Gantt.
Fixed bug making it hard to select Line Charts with smooth lines.
Improved the UX of left menus in Ampler Charts
Improved automatic positioning when an Ampler Chart has multiple total differences and level differences.
Version 22.10.1555 (October 2022)
New features:
Added ‘Resize object’ feature in Excel to resize Charts before copy/pasting to PowerPoint or Word.
Added variants dropdown in the New window to set the default, which is remembered across window sessions.
Added Outline format option to scales on Gantt.
Negative values are now allowed in the Stack and Distribute popups to better align value chains.
Segment and total labels now calculate percentage values as a percentage of the entire series, when a chart only contains a single series.
It’s now possible to move the text label on the bubble size legend.
Ampler now prompts less often for authentication in Library when MFA is enabled.
Improvements:
Creating a table from Library in PowerPoint now remembers the last entered rows & columns.
Fixed transpose table not working when table had an unequal number of rows and columns.
Fixed bug causing an Excel error popup to show when inserting a chart from a chart layout in Excel and having selected data with more than 255 rows.
Fixed bug where inserting a chart from a chart layout in Excel linked to a Pivot table would cause the pivot table to change its layout.
Inserting a chart layout in Excel will now insert at center of visible range.
Added support for disabling Ampler provided index and sheet layouts in Excel.
Deleting a comment in Excel will now also delete modern comments.
Fixed default Excel template not being set on non English computers.
Fixed bug where axis titles would get deleted when copy/pasting a chart from Excel to PowerPoint.
Manually added shapes now keep their relative positions when changing between Smart Layouts.
Fixed bug where creating a textbox with bullets would not work if a shape with bullets was already selected.
Using the add and subtract keys in a TreeView that is being edited (e.g. Library) is now supported.
Improved the UX of axis drag handles on Ampler Charts.
Value lines on Ampler Charts can now only be reset to average if not already positioned on average.
Fixed positioning issue where elements on Gantt would sometimes be slightly mispositioned.
Fix bug where images in email signatures in Outlook would sometimes render with a black background instead of transparent.
Improved performance when using ‘Cycle number format’, ‘Autocolor cells’ and ‘Apply table layout’ on a large number of cells.
Version 22.8.1506 (August 2022)
New features:
Added feature to show/hide left and right borders on Gantt to make it look less boxed.
Improvements:
Series labels are now positioned such that they never overlap.
XY Scatter labels are now positioned such that they never overlap.
Version 22.8.1499 (August 2022)
New features:
Added support for showing a single total label on Mekko charts.
Added support for data tables on Ampler Charts.
Added support for embedding Ampler Chart Themes inside presentation templates.
Added support for defining multiple series schemes within a single chart theme.
Added new Company Setting to ‘Show/hide chart layouts’ dropdown in chart menus.
Added support for Word document template language variants showing as a single element in Library and the ‘New’ window (just like 4:3, 16:9, etc. in PowerPoint).
Redesigned ‘New’ window to better support customers with a large number of templates in Word and PowerPoint.
Applying a Word template on an existing document in Word will now also fix the document styles.
Added several configuration options allowing to fully customize the color picker on Ampler Charts. This is available in the Theme Designer.
Improvements:
Improved axis min/max dragging UX.
Fixed dropdowns sometimes appearing empty in the Templates tab in Company Settings when accessed for the first time in the application lifetime.
Fixed issue where our auto-update could cause Ampler installation to end up in a partially updated state.
SharePoint login popup is now shown on first run after installation if background SSO fails.
Ampler now keeps the original shape z-order when inserting a picture into a shape in crop-mode.
Fixed issue where Gantt scale parts could be slightly mispositioned due to rounding errors.
Fixed edge case where Ampler would not use the default template defined in Company Settings.
Version 22.7.1488 (July 2022)
New features:
Added feature to disable auto coloring of segment labels in Chart Theme.
Added support for all ‘Pattern Fill’ types in Ampler Charts.
Added support for ‘Net lines’ and ‘Vertical lines’ in Ampler Charts.
Improvements:
Improvements to co authoring on Ampler Charts.
Improved the log scale tick label interval on logarithmic charts.
Total difference, level difference and CAGR now works better on combination charts.
Excel link is now kept when applying a chart layout.
Improved alignment, placement and text-wrapping of different labels on Ampler Charts.
Fixed issue where Chart menus could hang when minimizing to desktop.
Made it easier to drag a crowded ‘Days’ scale on Gantt charts.
Folder rules can now be configured for third party library sources.
Added more built-in PowerPoint features to the Toolbar Designer.
Improved keyboard navigation in Inspect panel in Excel.
Version 22.6.1411 (June 2022)
New features:
It is now possible to drag & drop x-axis category labels to change their position.
Added support for controlling the horizontal text alignment in Scales (i.e. ‘Years’, ‘Months’, etc.) on Gantt, such that the text can be left, center or right aligned instead of just center aligned.
Changing language in Gantt will now set the spell check language of all shapes.
The date picker in Gantt that controls the duration of Gantt elements now displays week numbers to the left of each week.
Added support for having A4 portrait slides and presentations as a variant in Library.
Improvements:
Improved addin startup time with up to 25% in some scenarios.
Added robustness features to detect scenarios where a user without Ampler Chart has modified the chart. In such scenarios, a user with Ampler Charts will now be presented with options to either ‘Merge’ or ‘Revert’ the changes.
CAGR now correctly deduces the correct number of years when categories are dates/years and the entered category years are not increasing linearly.
CAGR now displays a more informative tool tip.
CAGR now correctly auto-detects the year information when years are entered in yy-format in the datasheet.
Fixed some edge-cases when a Line chart had 2 y-axes and dates on the x-axis.
Changing the text rotation for a single selected category label will now apply the rotation to all category labels on the same axis.
Version 22.5.1388 (May 2022)
New features:
Made it possible show/hide individual axis tick labels and category labels on Ampler Charts.
Added support for showing Harvey balls and Checkmarks as status indicators in the right columns of Gantt charts. Available through right-click menu on activity text labels.
Added support for forcing connectors on point labels to show on Scatter & Bubble Charts.
Made it possile to customize the outline formatting of scale separators on Gantt.
Added support for showing the built-in ‘Shape height/width’ control in the Tool Pane in PowerPoint.
Added support for having a TOC layout that is different from the agenda layout. You can do so by opening an agenda layout in Library, make a duplicate of slide 1 in the same presentation. Slide 2 will now be used as the TOC layout and you can format it as you like.
Added new feature ‘Autofit table columns’ in PowerPoint that automatically adjusts selected table columns to exactly fit their content.
Added ‘Align shapes in grid’ feature that can align selected shapes into a grid of rows and columns with spacing in between.
Improvements:
CAGR calculation on Ampler Charts now autodetects when categories contain non-consecutive years and calculates accordingly.
Improved UX around drawing guides and scale separators on Gantt charts.
Fixed minor issues related to using a ‘Pattern fill’ on Ampler Charts.
Fixed edge case bugs in level difference calculations on stacked charts when negative values are involved.
Improved chart converter to handle more chart types when converting to Ampler Charts.
Applying a table layout to an existing table in PowerPoint will now keep the original column widths of the existing table.
Fixed such that inserting a symbol will now correctly insert behind the cursor position in PowerPoint and Word.
Fixed bugs where the built-in buttons ‘Insert textbox’ and ‘Table borders’ would not always work.
Improved the features ‘Distribute’, ‘Stack’, ‘Multiply shape’ and ‘Split shape’ to make changes live as you use them.
Various improvements for the ‘All other features’ dropdown menu.
Version 22.5.1353 (May 2022)
New features:
Added User Guide for Ampler Charts (available in the Help menu).
Added support for Dark Mode in Ampler. Now Ampler will automatically adapt its own theme to follow the Office theme that the user has chosen under Office > File > Account. Ampler will use Dark Mode when the Office theme is set to ‘Black’ or ‘Dark gray’.
Added support for defining intelligent ‘Slide Layouts’ which work like the built-in ‘Slide layouts’ but with support for carrying over text content. E.g. to easily switch between 2/3/4 column layout or layouts with/without rows and columns.
Added automatic spell check to text fields in the Agenda window. The spell check supports English (US), English (UK), French, German and Spanish. The spell check will follow the presentation language.
Added buttons to navigate to previous/next comment. Available in the ‘Comments’ dropdown menu.
Added ‘All other features’ dropdown menu that automatically lists all Ampler features that are not added to the current toolbar. Use this to automatically discover when new cool features are added to Ampler.
Added buttons to easily remove any added matrix on Scatter charts.
Added support for changing the separator in Segment labels when they contain mixed content.
Added support for defining ‘Table layouts’ in Excel. These can be used to define pre-formatted tables with header rows, total rows, borders, and banded rows. They work both with and without the built-in Excel data tables.
Improvements:
Reduced padding and spacing between elements in Library to reduce the need for vertical scrolling.
Agenda will now use any existing PowerPoint sections as agenda topics when creating a new Agenda from scratch.
Added support for cycling back to original position when clicking repeatedly on ‘Same height/width’ and ‘Align left/top/right/bottom’ when the mode ‘Expand to next drawing guide’ (available under Settings > Shortcuts) is enabled.
Improved ‘Scaled resize’ such that it now handles multiple shapes that are not grouped and also when only a single shape is selected.
Fixed such that changing language in Word now works when the document contains Content Controls that locked for editing.
Improved ‘Inspect formulas’ in Excel to handle structured reference formulas.
Improved ‘Inspect formulas’ in Excel to handle all the latest Excel formulas.
Version 22.3.1285 (March 2022)
New features:
Added option to create an Agenda, Table of Contents or both at the same time in the Agenda window.
Added feature to completely customize the Tool Pane (i.e. the pane that can be shown by clicking on the Ampler logo button under ‘Resources’). This feature is accessible from within the Toolbar Designer.
Added feature to choose a pattern fill instead of a solid fill in Ampler Charts.
Improvements:
Improved Ampler Charts Excel linking such that saving a linked open Excel file to a new destination will automatically update the chart in PowerPoint, such that it references the new Excel file path instead of the old file path.
When hiding columns/rows in Excel, Ampler Charts will now ignore the hidden cells and only show visible cells on the chart.
Added more fixed drag & drop positions for Process and Bar labels on Gantt charts.
Made it possible to change text alignment for Process labels to left, center or right when the label is shown inside the Process.
Fixed bug where selecting and deselecting a Segment label on an Ampler Chart would sometimes delete the Segment label.
Fixed bug where the mouse could sometimes go into drag mode when simply clicking on a slide containing a Gantt chart.
Scrolling in the ‘Insert from chart layout’ window now scrolls properly instead of changing slide.
Improved Scan & Fix to suppress more false positives in text related rules (capitalization, hyphenation, etc.).
Improved the ‘Lock/Unlock guides’ feature, such that it doesn’t mess with Slide Layout drawing guides.
Improved ‘Insert textbox with bullets’, such that it now handles bullet formats that use a custom picture as the bullet.
Improved the ‘Table to textbox’ feature to better handle advanced scenarios such as merged cells and cells with outline formatting.
Improved Shape Styles to better handle transparency.
Improved Table Styles to better handle banded table rows and columns.
Version 22.2.1258 (February 2022)
Improvements:
Added support for better search filtering in dropdowns in Ampler Charts, e.g. the font type dropdown and language dropdown on Gantt
Added icons to chart type dropdown menus
Added ‘Use Excel fill color’ outside color dropdown in Ampler Charts
Improved Gantt Chart performance
Fixed bracket positioning error on Gantt Charts
Fixed bug where linking an Ampler Chart to an Excel sheet with certain formatting would cause PowerPoint to freeze
Improved the visual appearance of drag & drop positions in Ampler Charts
Added support for having trendline labels that display the trendline equation including R-squared
Improved snapgrid when an Ampler Chart is aligned against multiple objects, such that more snap lines can be shown simultaneously.
Added support for using number formats in Ampler Charts that don’t use dot or comma as decimal/thousand separator.
Resizing an Ampler Chart will now influence the axis tick mark spacing that Ampler suggests such that it is less likely that tick labels will overlap.
Fixed Ampler Chart menus sometimes being clipped when near the screen edge.
Fixed such that Ampler Chart now spawn outside of the clicked element and thereby not interfering with drag handles.
Improved color pane such that it now works on Tables and Groups
Improved color pane such that it is now only enabled when relevant
Added support for keyboard navigation in Library to move between search text field, folders and search results using Tab and Arrow keys
When using Library in ‘Popped out window’ it now better remembers its last position when using multiple monitors
Heavily improved functionality around Favorites in Library: it is now possible to mark folders as Favorites as well as create ‘container folders’ to organize favorite folders and files.
Version 22.1.1209 (January 2022)
Improvements:
Improved Format Tools such that it now supports scanning and bulk editing native Office Charts and Ampler Charts
Improved Format Tools such that it can now do bulk changes on a single slide and not only on all elements across entire presentation
Version 21.12.1199 (December 2021)
New features:
Added feature to manage company email signatures in Ampler for Outlook
Added feature to change the week numbering system used on Gantt charts. This is accessible through the left click menu on the week timeline. By default, a newly created Gantt chart will follow the computer’s regional settings for calculating week numbers.
Improvements:
Added support for controlling which colors are shown in the Ampler Color Picker and Color Pane. This is done through Company Settings > Scan & Fix
Improved the Color Panel such that it can now change colors on Ampler Charts
Fixed quirks when updating linked Ampler Charts through the Links panel
Added support for updating multiple linked charts at once through the Ampler Chart left and right menus
When inserting large images from Library that exceeds the slide area, Ampler will now resize them to fit within the slide area
Improved behavior when moving Ampler Charts using arrow keys such that mixed selections are supported (Ampler Chart together with native PowerPoint shape), and also fixed issue where PowerPoint would sometimes switch to the next slide
Fixed occassional error in Word when inserting/saving text snippets to Library in Ampler for Word
Version 21.12.1190 (December 2021)
Improvements:
Improved such that clicking on a drag handle will now not spawn a left click menu because most oftenly you want to drag – and because rendering the menu upon left click would create a small lag upon starting the drag operation.
Added automatic deletion/restoring of segment labels when data cells are empty.
Improved performance for large Gantt charts: dragging elements is now faster and initial mouse-over on a large Gantt now responds faster
Improved edge case when dragging timeline: when ‘Show weekends’ was disabled, and the Gantt would end on e.g. a Friday, then dragging the end of the Week timeline one step/increment to the right would suggest to include Saturday and Sunday in the same week – but since weekends are hidden, the net effect was that releasing the mouse would just "snap back" like nothing happened. Now Ampler only suggest steps/increments that actually adds visible days to the Gantt.
Improved such that if the last timeline part (e.g. the last week number) is too small to fully contains its text (e.g. if the Gantt ends mid-week), then Ampler now no longer display an any text for that timeline part thereby making it easier to drag the timeline.
Improved timeline part overlays, such that they are more tight around the text, such that it is easier to grab e.g. the entire day/week timeline instead of accidentally clicking into the labels in the timeline.
Removed red horizontal "drawing guide" on Gantt as it was mostly in the way. Now there’s only the activity overlay and a vertical red line when the mouse cursor is located inside the Gantt.
Version 21.11.1189 (November 2021)
Improvements:
Fixed template specific issue where PowerPoint would add data labels that would not be selectable through Ampler, when switching between series types on a chart that contains both Stacked Column series and Line series.
Fixed local Excel environment issue, where Excel would sometimes prevent Ampler from opening the chart datasheet or take several seconds to open.
Improved support for dragging native PowerPoint shapes that lie on top of a Gantt
Added support for pasting text from Excel onto the Gantt chart. This can be done by selecting 1 activity and then click Ctrl+V. This will paste the number of copied lines downwards. It is also possible to select the exact number of activities that you wish to paste into, in which case the number of selected activities must match the number of copied lines.
Version 21.11.1184 (November 2021)
Improvements:
Improved auto coloring of segment labels for small segments on Pie/Doughnut
Improved series and segment label auto placement on Pie/Doughnut
Added support for controlling date formatting on category axes that contain year-like numbers and are not formatted as actual dates in the datasheet
Improved how Ampler deduces font size for new labels on Gantt when user has deviated from theme defaults
Improved such that it is now easier to click the cursor into a specific position in a label that is already selected on Gantt
Changed such that 0-value segment labels on Stacked-like charts now get a fill color
Inserting multiple icons/flags after each other by double-clicking in Library will now insert them side-by-side on the slide instead of on top of each other
Added resiliency against edge case where the Ampler Charts datasheet would not show
Version 21.11.1179 (November 2021)
Improvements:
Reduced size of thumbnails for icons in Library such that more icons can fit in the Library window.
Preview on mouse-over of Library content is now not shown if the preview is smaller than 100×100 pixels, in which case it wouldn’t provide any value to show a preview, because it’s so close to the thumbnail size anyway.
Improved Library insertion time by better utilizing available offline content.
Version 21.11.1177 (November 2021)
Improvements:
Added new ‘Dock to pane’ button next to the Maximize and Close buttons in the library popped out window.
Added new button to hide/show the Library folder panel when showing Library as a popped out window. Use this new feature to get more space for e.g. icons.
Improved Library window ‘time to appear’ when an old search query text was still present in the search field.
Optimized Library load/search UI performance with regards to showing many icons by better utilizing existing offline content.
Changing segment labels and total labels to contain multiple formats (e.g. absolutes and percentages) will now center align and break the label content into two separate lines.
Added support for adding bullets using Ctrl+Alt+Right/Left arrow shortcut in Gantt, and all Chart labels.
Improved axis title positioning such that aligning above axis tick labels will now grow towards the center of the chart instead of away from the chart.
When only the partial text of a label is selected and the user clicks ‘Bold’, now only the selected text will be bolded instead of the entire label.
Added support for adding a chart title on Pie/Doughnut charts.
Added feature such that copying an Ampler Chart will now make it possible to navigate to another slide, right click on an Ampler Chart and paste the picked up position and/or size.
Improved Legend feature, such that legend markers on scatter charts will now use the series marker size instead of auto adjusting based on font size (like all the other charts do).
Fixed edge case where linking Bars on Gantt over a hidden weekend would not be possible if the Day timeline was visible.
Changed cut off point for when a color is treated as dark, which means that Ampler will now more often suggest a light font color for segment labels on top of e.g. red segment fill colors.
Improved the existing ‘Insert columns’ / ‘Insert rows’ buttons in the datasheet Quick Access Toolbar. Now they will autofill the column/row headers in the chart datasheet by looking at the existing data. Also, the ‘Delete columns’ / ‘Delete rows’ button will now maintain formula references.
Improved support for Line chart conversion, such that white markers are no longer applied on the Line series in certain cases.
Added support for converting Line charts with a date formatted x-axis.
Added feature to control text alignment for category labels. Accessible through left-click menu on axis and category label.
Version 21.11.1167 (November 2021)
Improvements:
Fixed bug where linked chart(s) would not update after inserting another chart on the same slide and then changing any values in the linked data range in Excel
Added support for defining a Chart Theme that applies series formatting in reverse order
Added option to define smoothness for series in the Chart Theme Designer
Added support for setting default chart layouts for ‘Stacked bar’, ‘Stacked bar 100%’ and ‘Clustered bar’
Version 21.10.1146 (October 2021)
New features:
Added option to control whether Excel links should update automatically or manually
Added support for logarithmic scale on Scatter/Bubble charts
Added support for ‘Other series’ on Mekko and Area Charts
Added support for axis breaks on Area, Scatter and Bubble charts.
Added ‘Fit date range to content’ feature in right click menu on Gantt chart.
Improvements:
Improved addin startup time with 15% and in some cases up to 40%
Improved performance in several areas of the Settings windows
Improved performance in several areas of Ampler Charts
Improve performance when establishing an Excel link for the first time after opening PowerPoint and Excel
Fixed focus issue when establishing an Excel link
Added tooltip on Excel link text to improve UX when the linked Excel file has a very long file path
Fixed crash issue when opening/closing datasheet very fast
Version 21.9.1111 (September 2021)
New features:
Now it’s possible to remove document metadata directly from the Email window
Error bars are now supported on Stacked Column charts
Version 21.9.1099 (September 2021)
New features:
Added support for CAGR on Line charts
Added support for percent indicator and series labels for Mekko charts
Added support for date axis on Area and Area 100% charts
Now it’s possible to write custom text within the scales on Gantt (e.g. modifying or appending text to the year or week numbers)
Added option to Save/Email a Word document as ‘PDF with markup’ (i.e. with change tracking annotations and comments) in the Save As and Email windows
Improvements:
Lots of performance improvements for Ampler Charts
Improved UX of dragging the major unit on axes with axis breaks
Copying multiple Ampler Charts and regular Office shapes together will now select all of the newly copied elements
Fixed edge case issue where creating an Ampler Chart on top of a shape would show parts of the Ampler Chart behind the shape
Further reduced number of HTTP requests performed by Library related operations
Version 21.8.1077 (August 2021)
New features:
Now it’s possible to transpose the Ampler Charts datasheet view (i.e. such that Categories are interpreted row-by-row and Series are interpreted column-by-column). This feature is accessible through the ‘Transpose sheet’ button inside the datasheet.
The default datasheet view when creating new horizontal charts is now transposed, such that the datasheet view better reflects the visual appearance of the chart.
Added support for other addins to interact with Ampler Charts through the Ampler.Interop NuGet package. This API can be consumed by other addins to achieve better interoperability with Ampler, e.g. in formatting and arrange scenarios.
Improvements:
Improved table layouts to better handle the case where a table has a special last row or a special last column. Also bullet formatting inside cells are now better handled.
Improved Save/Email feature in Word such that Headers and Footers are kept when only saving/emailing a subset of the document
Bar labels in Gantt charts can now be placed in the center of a Bar
Now it’s possible to override the automatic label font coloring in Ampler Charts to force a specific label font color. Users can also revert to automatic label font coloring by clicking on the ‘Reset to automatic color’ in the font menu dropdown for a label.
Fixed edge case issue where axis breaks would be placed wrong on Waterfall charts with negative values
Improved the scenario of changing the chart type from Stacked to Stacked 100 and vice versa
Improved such that users can now configure Library settings, Chart themes, and Chart layouts when running in Charts only mode
Version 21.7.1047 (July 2021)
New features:
Now it’s possible in the Save and Email windows to save/email as PPTX and PDF simultaneously.
Version 21.6.1041 (June 2021)
New features:
Now it’s possible to select multiple elements across charts, e.g. to set the Doughnut hole size on two Doughnut charts, or format multiple series with the same color.
Improvements:
Improved dragging of multiple activities simultaneously on Gantt
Applying a Chart theme will now apply on all selected charts
Improved the Scan & Fix rules related to placeholders such that they work on all types of placeholders
Bug fixes:
Fixed edge case issue where inserting elements with very long file names from Library would fail
Version 21.6.1029 (June 2021)
New features:
Added personal setting to automatically show Library panel when Office starts. This feature is accessible from within Personal Settings > Library
Added support for having agenda layouts in different resolutions (4:3, 16:9, etc.)
Improvements:
Improved such that Library better maintains its view state when switching between popped in/out mode
Improved such that Ampler Charts doesn’t interfere with the built-in scroll bars when zooming in
Improved ‘Use Excel fill color’ such that it better handles if points have different fill colors in the datasheet
Bug fixes:
Fixed issue in Library where search results would sometimes show up twice
Fixed issue where ‘Reset slide’ would not work when clicked on through built-in PowerPoint slide right menu
Fixed issue where clicking ‘Open datasheet’ on a linked Ampler Chart (both through right-click menu and Links panel) would not always open the linked workbook
Fixed CAGR drag anchors not always working
Fixed bracket on Gantt not always being positioned correctly
Fixed issue where Ampler Charts would force a fill color on labels in Gantt
Fixed issue where milestones could collapse into a line
Version 21.6.1026 (June 2021)
New features:
Legend markers are now sized according to the font size of the corresponding legend entry labels
Improvements:
Fixed positioning issue if a label was rotated and placed in a custom position
Greatly reduced addin startup time
Fixed edge case issue where opening Excel while the Ampler Charts datasheet was open would cause Excel to show up with reduced functionality
Version 21.6.1020 (June 2021)
New features:
Added support for having dates on the category axis in Ampler Charts
Added support for entering custom date formats on regular charts and Gantt charts
Improved datasheet performance and general Charts performance
Improved support for having many data points in the datasheet
Added support for specifying a custom time unit for CAGR arrows, series CAGRs and legend CAGRs
Improved performance and robustness of linking – both in Ampler Charts and in general
Improved Link scanner such that it now also finds linked Ampler Charts and linked workbooks. Also linked file paths are now shown.
Vastly reduced number of HTTP requests performed by Library related operations
Now it is possible to control how often Ampler synchronizes Library content for offline access
Now it is possible to customize Library search filters on the personal and company level
Added new buttons that act as shortcuts for quickly applying search filters
Now it is possible to define folders that should ‘use original position’, i.e. content inserted from these folders will retain their original position when saved into Library. This is accessible through Company Settings > Company Library.
Now it is possible to control whether a slide element in Library is enabled or disabled for linking. This is accessible through the right click menu on slides in Library.
Improvements:
Made it easier to set smoothness for multiple series on Line charts
Added more outline weight options to Outline dropdown menu
Added more number format options for segment labels on certain chart types
Bug fixes:
Fixed edge case issue where certain windows (Margins, Format Picker, etc.) could spawn outside of the visible screen area
Fixed edge case issue where CAGR and other growth arrows would calculate wrong on Waterfall charts
Fixed edge case issue where setting ‘No outline’ on y-axis could cause tick labels to become detached
Fixed edge case issue where total labels would be placed wrong
Fixed edge case issue where left menus in Ampler Charts would not close automatically
Version 21.5.992 (May 2021)
New features:
Now it is possible to show segment labels with mixed content, e.g. ‘Percentage (Absolute)’
Improvements:
Improved focus issue in font dropdown in left menus in Ampler Charts
Double clicking on a chart will now open the datasheet again
Version 21.4.946 (April 2021)
New features:
Now it’s possible to save Table Layouts in Library. You can create new tables from a Table Layout or apply on existing tables. Adding a table shape to Library will automatically save it as a Table Layout.
Added new option in Company Settings to specify that Scan & Fix should always treat theme colors as brand compliant.
Improvements:
Improved font dropdown in left menus in Ampler Charts
Improved handling of number formatting in Ampler Charts when using a custom decimal and thousand separator
Improved New window UI to better handle when multiple variants of a slide master exist in Library
Improved keyboard navigation in Library
Bug fixes:
Fixed edge case bug related to datasheet occuring only in Office 2016
Version 21.4.940 (April 2021)
New features:
Added ‘Layout Cleaner’ feature to easily remove incompliant slide layouts.
Added ‘Fix bullets’ feature that turn bullets into standard format.
Now it is possible to apply a presentation template to only selected slides. This feature is accessible through the ‘New’ window.
Improvements:
Improved Clean: improved removal of 3D effects, ribbon button is now a splitbutton such that shortcuts can be set to individual menu items.
Improved Stickers: improved behavior when inserting multiple stickers on a single slide, added features to easily delete all stickers in presentation or selected slides.
Format Picker: ‘size’ checkbox is now two separate checkboxes: ‘height’ and ‘width’, improved button icon, applying height or width now disables ‘Keep aspect ratio’ on target shapes.
Added ‘Apply presentation template’ button to right click menu in Library.
Added option in Scan & Fix settings to set a preferred color for the existing ‘Bolded text color’ rule.
Added large icon for the ‘Pickup size and position’ and ‘Pickup style’ buttons.
Inserting a built-in chart layout when a placeholder is selected now respects the selected placeholder’s dimensions.
Improved Library navigation performance.
Bug fixes:
Fixed edge case bugs in ‘Placeholder position’ rule.
Fixed edge case bugs in ‘Inconsistent bullet style’ rule.
Fixed edge case bugs when inserting a table from Library.
Version 21.4.934 (April 2021)
New features:
Added feature to share Library Source via email. Right click on Library source > ‘Share folder’ to access this feature.
It is now possible to customize Library Search Filters from within Company Settings.
The last modification time of Library elements can now be viewed in the Metadata editor.
Chart width is now extended when more categories are added to a Column or Waterfall chart.
Improvements:
Improved UX in Library window: better display of search results, added possibility to multi-select elements, fixed edge case alignment issues of elements.
Improved how custom placement of Chart labels work when resizing a Chart.
X-axis on Line charts now crosses the Y-axis at 0.
Fixed certain toolbar dropdowns not always being ordered alphabetically.
Bug fixes:
Added fix for timeouts occuring in edge cases when connected to SharePoint.
Version 21.3.916 (March 2021)
New features:
Added new feature that enables splitting a shape into a grid. The button is available in the ‘Multiply or replicate dropdown’
Improvements:
Selecting a placeholder on the slide and then inserting a Chart or Table shape from Library will now insert into the selected placeholder. It already behaved that way for images, but now it also works for Charts and Tables.
When inserting images from Library, Ampler will now use the original image file name as the shape name for the inserted shape, such that it is easily recognizable in the Selection Pane.
The Language button now also sets the language in built-in Office Charts and Axis Titles.
Added the theme’s Custom Colors (if they exist in the theme of current presentation) to the ‘Color pane’ taskpane. Also optimized the layout and margins for better utilization of available screen space.
Added popup message when saving multiple shapes and slides, such that the user can now choose to save multiple shapes as a single Library element or as multiple individual Library elements.
Added confirmation dialog that enables overwriting existing elements when adding shapes, slides or stickers to Library and an existing element in Library with the same name already exists.
When typing in the Gantt datasheet, Ampler will now autofill the element type to the first in the dropdown list.
Improved the Chart Theme Designer such that formatting of all chart decorators can be controlled when setting up a Chart Theme.
Improved handling of setting date ranges in Gantt such that setting start after end and vice versa responds more intuitively.
Added drag & drop handles such that it is easier to control the height of Gantt elements and activities.
It is now supported to set a default Chart Layout and Chart Theme for Gantt charts.
The position of a Value Line is now changed when editing the number inside the value line label shape.
Bug fixes:
Fixed memory leak in the ‘Import from files’ functionality, which could previously cause a degraded import-experience over time in the same PowerPoint session.
Version 21.3.892 (March 2021)
New features:
Level differences are now supported on Area and Line charts
Made it possible to change from Pie & Doughnut to other chart types: Stacked, Area, Line
Scatter & Bubble charts now support changing the position of the x-axis
Now it’s possible to choose the position of the ‘Other series’
Font color in growth bubbles now adapt based on background fill color
Improvements:
Improved interoperability with Office (works better with built-in buttons, and more)
Improved icons related to axis features
Improved undo functionality
Improved performance of several operations (changing chart type, axis breaks, category gaps, and more)
Improved selection behavior
Improved drag behavior on Pie & Doughnut
Added more shortcuts to Gantt
Added more ways to show/hide category labels on x-axis
Changing language in Gantt now also translates column label texts: ‘Activity’, ‘Responsible’, ‘Comment’
Version 21.2.852 (February 2021)
New features:
Added support for linking axes across Charts
Added new buttons to the Chart datasheet: toggle percentage formatting, flip rows/columns, clear formatting, transpose, and more
Added option to disable/enable Ampler Charts from within dropdown
Improvements:
Improved compatibility with older Office versions
Improved conversion from non-Ampler charts to Ampler Charts
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