Excel Features
Core Tools
Keyboard Shortcuts
Formatting & Modeling Tools
Tracing Tools
Workbook Utilities
Color Palettes
Access your standardized color palettes in any workbook
Advanced Tools
Workbook Optimization
Clean your workbooks to boost performance, improve stability, and reduce file size
Visualizations
Check models for formula errors and inconsistencies to avoid costly mistakes
Prepare To Share
Clean up presentations and workbooks to avoid inadvertent disclosure of sensitive information, clean up formatting, reduce file size, prevent editing, and more
Chart Add-Ons
Ready-made components that can be added to existing charts
Quick Charts
Create complex charts commonly used in finance and consulting
Fast Chart Formatting
Reformat any chart to your brand-compliant standards with just a single click
Share Settings
Facilitate uniformity in the formatting of materials produced across your organization, and to standardize the Macabacus experience for all users
PowerPoint Features
Core Tools
Shape Tools
Several tools to reposition and resize shapes that pick up where native PowerPoint functionality leaves off
Color Tools
Quickly swap colors (recolor), freeze colors, and fix grayscale & transparent fills
Turboshapes
Multi-state shapes that can be used to help visualize units of measurement (e.g., percentages, relative ranking), status, and other things
Text Tools
Presentation Utilities
Explorer pane, tab browser, and airplane mode (to redact logos in presentations - for privacy)
Advanced Tools
Link To Excel
Link PowerPoint exhibits and text to analyses (cells and charts) in Excel using the most reliable linking available for Office
Proofing
Check presentations for errors and inconsistencies in formatting, layout, and content to ensure brand compliance and professional presentations
Template Features
Automated Agendas
Mastershapes (e.g., Draft Stamps)
Brand-compliant shapes that can be inserted into presentations in a variety of ways (e.g., slide stamps on every slide)
Styles
One of PowerPoint's most curious deficiencies is Microsoft's omission of styles, like those provided in Word and Excel. Macabacus lets you define styles and apply them to shapes in your presentations, similar to how you use styles in Word and Excel
Template Rules
Ensure that presentations produced by your organization contain required legal and other content
Prepare To Share
Before sending presentations outside your organization, "sanitize" them to remove things like slide notes, animations, and hyperlinks. Even lock down your slides to restrict them from being edited
Color Palettes
Access your standardized color palettes in any document
Share Settings
Facilitate uniformity in the formatting of materials produced across your organization, and to standardize the Macabacus experience for all users
Word Features
Core Tools
Color Tools
Text Tools
Advanced Tools
Link To Excel
Doc Builder
Quickly generate templated Word documents (e.g., NDAs) by answering a simple questionnaire that prompts you for necessary inputs
Color Palettes
Access your standardized color palettes in any document
Share Settings
Facilitate uniformity in the formatting of materials produced across your organization, and to standardize the Macabacus experience for all users
Library Functionality
Personal Library
Repository for reusable content like slides, images, and charts for personal use
Shared Libraries
Share standardized, brand-compliant content like slides, images, and charts across your team or organization
Library Category Content Groups
Create multiple groups for each respective type of content (e.g., Slides) to facilitate organization and discoverability
Meta Slides
Advanced library content that publish to libraries alongside information about the content to facilitate discovery
Meta Shapes
Advanced library content that publish to libraries alongside information about the content to facilitate discovery
3rd Party Integrations
Utilize Pitchly directly through Macabacus
Archived Decks
Completed presentations archived in libraries and published with metadata used for filtering in the Library pane
Basic Usage Statistics
Administrative Tools
Administrators
Add members of your team to assist with account management
Unlimited Software Updates
Software Downgrade Rights
Download and install archived versions of Macabacus
User Groups
Assign users to groups (e.g., finance, marketing) and selectively provide those groups read/write access to shared libraries
Support
Support
Centralized User Management
Manage your users from a central admin console (i.e., web portal)
Dedicated Customer Success Manager
Security
Opt Out Of Usage Stats
Opt Out Of Error Logging
Admin Console Single Sign-On (SSO)
Login to the admin console using your Microsoft or Google credentials
User Single Sign-On (SSO)
Manage user-access to the Macabacus add-ins through Microsoft Entra ID
Security Reviews / Checklists
Training
Help Center Documentation
Detailed user guide including embedded YouTube videos, best practices, configuration considerations, etc.
Free On-Demand Training
Live Webinar Training
Live Technical Onboarding
Purchasing
Maximum Licenses
Windows User Accounts Per License
Multi-Year Agreements / Pricing
Custom Terms / Agreements
Manual Invoicing
Supplier Portal Support
Support for vendor management solutions like Ariba, Coupa, etc.
Services
Customization Services
We will customize Macabacus to reflect your branding standards and preferences