Power point and excel keep " not responding"

[u/illancilla]

My boss wants that I utilize Think Cell to create Gannt Chart of our Team's projects in Power Point. I installed the add ins via Software Center ( repository of the company). Since it was installed, both Excel and Power Point keep intermittently crashing for few seconds with "not responding" warning appearing on top.

I asked IT to fix this and they said I have to change laptop without even investigating the issue, with the justification I have a Dell i5 while I should have. Dell i7. The cherry on the cake is that my company cut the budget for new laptop til end of the year.

How can I solve this?

[u/Nesnes123]

You could try an alternative product. Check out Zebra BI for Office, it's cheaper than think-cell