New Look

The mTABView icons have been modernised to help you more simply navigate your way around the software.

Clean and concise, the mTABView button now holds all of your file options including new, open, and save.

The new ribbons allow you to effortlessly glide through all the options, from inserting objects to overlaying your slides, and not forgetting the brand new SmartFormat feature.

First Things First

In order to ensure that your work displays correctly, it is vital to ensure the correct version of MS Office has been set for your mTABView account.

This can be set from the 'View' menu icon where you need to select the version installed on your computer.

This only needs to be set once and it is remembered in your account settings.

Smart

Smart is a word synonymous with mTABView and now when you see a green coloured icon you are able to easily recognise this as being a “Smart” feature.

SmartFormat

SmartFormats are conditions or ‘rules’ that can be applied to charts, tables and even SmartText objects to change their appearance depending on context. Simple examples would be always using the same colour for a particular brand, formatting low sample in a particular manner, such as italics or even highlighting values that are significantly different.

By adding a SmartFormat to a chart or table you are able to ensure that specific situations are always handled in a consistent manner. You are able to base your SmartFormat rule on Sample Size, Text Search, Data Range or Significance.

A SmartFormat rule can alter the appearance of a chart or table based on conditions being met or not. This can include options such as hiding the data, changing colours be it text or fill, changing line styles or even adding or replacing text.

SmartFormats can be collected together to make Rule Books, and by building a library of Rule Books, users will be able to apply multiple SmartFormats simultaneously to ensure that particular brands, models or situations are always handled in a consistent manner across all of their tables and charts.

Conditional SmartText

As well as SmartFormats, you can now also apply conditions to SmartText.

For example, this can be used when you wish to add a footer to a slide whenever there is an occurrence of low sample, you can do this easily by using conditional SmartText.

Create a rule and add it to your conditional text. If the conditions of this SmartFormat rule are met on the slide, then the text that you choose to be displayed will be, if not met then nothing will be displayed.

Additional Export Options

Your mTABView presentation can now be exported to both PowerPoint 2010 as well as 2003.

Additionally, when you choose to export your presentation you now have more options. You can opt to export all of the presentation slides, just the current slide or even a range of slides.

Report Summary

When you have created a large complex presentation it can be difficult to keep track of everything. The new Report Summary is especially useful and can give you peace of mind that all of your report pages have been updated correctly.

Under View, click the Export Report Summary button and an Excel file will automatically open detailing, for each slide in your selection, the Primary Study, the Column question(s), Row question(s), Filter question(s), Layer question(s) and all the studies.

You can then quickly check, for example, that all of your pages have been updated with the correct study.

Chart Legends

mTABView now has the ability to create a chart legend that can be positioned anywhere on your slide. No longer does it have to be only to the right, left, top or bottom of a chart! It can be anywhere on the page. mTABView allows you to do this by creating a duplicate chart but then not plotting the data points. You can also now format the background of your legend.

Change decimal precision for individual elements of a table in ad-hoc formatting

Previously in mTABView if you had a table with, for example, multiple columns or rows with questions formatted the same (i.e. 'means') they all had to be set to the same decimal precision.

Now, however, you can set each one individually. mTABView enables you to do this via the Ad-Hoc formatting section. Just highlight your column or row and, under the Table Design tab, alter the precision.

Benchmarks

A new feature available in version 4.3 is the ability to add a Benchmark Line to charts.

You can now create a chart and then add on top of it an average line and format this line accordingly.

Multiple Select

A very useful feature for those who create presentations with lots of objects on a slide is the introduction of multiple select. By holding down 'Control' (Ctrl) on the keyboard you can now select multiple objects and move them all together, or re-size in one go.

Axis Enhancements

For those charts using both a column question and also a layer question you were previously unable to choose which element text you would like to be displayed on the axis. mTABView would simply append the Column and Layer question response together so you would get something like 2010:BMW. If there was only one response selected in the Column or Layer this would not necessarily be what was required.

Now from the Chart Style Editor you can choose to display just the Column Response Text, just the Layer Response Text or both.

Above is the chart preview with the default setting of both Column and Layer Response text. Below is the same chart but with just the Columns Response text displayed.

Overlaying Index to Base Column Data

The functionality when overlaying a chart or table using mTAB’s Index to Base Column format style has been improved so that now when you choose to overlay such a chart, the base column will remain and not have to be re-selected post overlay.

Table Style Editor

The table style editor has been enhanced and now works in the same way as the chart editor. When you make changes to the format your table they now update on the fly.

You can now also click on our table and then from the Table Design tab directly apply one of your saved styles to your table.

Chart/Table Editor Enhancements

Within both the Chart and Table editors you can now view your charts as they will appear in the slide by using the zoom button. The view can be made bigger or smaller as required for closer inspection of elements.

Additionally, if your presentation has a dark theme applied to it, it can be difficult to see details whilst editing, especially if you are using white text. Now you can choose an alternative background colour in the chart or table editor view to help you see the detail.

Training and Support

We believe the majority of our users will quickly adapt to the new menu icons and will have no problems in continuing to create wonderful reports in mTABView. However, we would like to offer all users the opportunity to have a refresher training session so we can show you all the new features that have been added to this version or just to remind you how easy and time saving using mTABView can be. Please contact the support team to arrange a mutually convenient time for training.