FAQs

Less Time, Less Effort, Less Complexity to manage your Project through PlanDeer

Less Time, Less Effort, Better Quality PowerPoint Presentations through JiffySlider.

PlanDeer removes the complexity associated with typical planners, by providing a calendar based, effective, efficient and user-friendly interface, that requires minimal effort to create tasks in your plan and, manage their progress. This, significantly reduces the time and effort required to manage your plan thereby enhancing your productivity.

JiffySlider provides you more than 30 accelerator functions that help in reducing the PowerPoint creation time and effort by a significant amount. The Product focuses on reducing the non-content-editing-time, by providing carefully chosen accelerator functions. If some functions can be done in 25% of the time, some can be achieved in less than 5% of the original time!

The only difference between the Trial version of PlanDeer or JiffySlider and their corresponding Licensed version is that the Trial version will have a time-limit until which you can use (without buying subscription). The time-limit is 30 days from the date of installation of the Product on your system. There is NO difference in terms of the feature or functionality between the two versions. That means, the Trial version of each Product works with all the features, just like its corresponding Licensed version, but for the time-period constraint.

PlanDeer and JiffySlider, both provide subscription model of licensing for the users. As a user, you may purchase a subscription that entails you to use the Product on “x” number of computers (Number of activations) and “y” number of years (Period of subscription) based on your needs. The subscription rate table provided in “Download Page” gives you the cost model of each subscription plan. To purchase subscriptions for longer term or for larger number of users, you may please contact the Publisher through one of the options provided in “Contact Us” page. To know more details, visit www.excelsquare.com/licenses.

(Applicable for both, PlanDeer and JiffySlider) - The following steps need to be followed when a license has to be transferred to a new computer.

In the old computer, open PlanDeer, go to “PlanDeer” menu (in case of PlanDeer) or open MS PowerPoint and go to "Jiffy" menu (in case of JiffySlider) and click on "Deactivate" menu item. Copy and note down the deactivation code that is displayed (it’s preferred that you do a copy-paste that code into notepad or similar app).

On the new computer, if a newer version of the Product is available on the Publisher website, download it [Or copy your old installer file from old computer to new computer]. Install the Product.

Then, follow the "How to Activate" section in the respective activation page (https://www.excelsquare.com/how_to_activate_plandeer or https://www.excelsquare.com/how_to_activate_jiffyslider). Add the deactivation code that you noted in the above step, to the details being sent in the email, to obtain the new activation code.

Once you receive the new activation code from the Publisher, you may activate the installation.

To use PlanDeer 10, you are required to have Microsoft Excel 2013 or 2016 or 2019 (either 32-Bit or 64-Bit) on Windows Platform, installed on your computer, before PlanDeer is installed.

To use JiffySlider, you are required to have Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 or 2016 or 2019 (either 32-Bit or 64-Bit) on  Windows Platform, installed on your computer, before JiffySlider is installed.

Fundamentally, if you are one of those, who are tasked to manage a project or maintain a list of things-to-do, either on a chit or on a computer or in your mind, then PlanDeer may be an ideal tool to serve your planning and tracking needs. PlanDeer can lead to significant productivity enhancement for all professionals, project managers, leads, small and medium entrepreneurs, students and various others who always have a Project to manage or a List-of-Things to accomplish. In fact, profession is not a constraint at all to derive the best out of this Microsoft Excel based planning and tracking tool. While the tech-savvy like PlanDeer for the way it is designed and built, the not-so-tech-savvy would also love it for the simplicity it has and the way it allows them to master it in a Jiffy.

Buying is made safe and secure by processing the payment transactions through two of the most Trusted Authorities in e-transactions in the world. You may visit https://www.excelsquare.com/security to see more details about Payment security.

PayPal and CCAvenue provide several channels (viz. PapPal Account, Debit Card, Credit Card, UPI, etc. depending on the Payment Service Provider and your region) for payment to purchase the subscription. You may choose the one that is most convenient for you to use.

If you do not find the information you are looking for, either in the Help file (in case of PlanDeer), or the User Videos at Users Corner or relevant pages in the website, you may  get in touch with us over email providing the nature of your query or by using the contact form at www.excelsquare.com/contact. We shall get back to you at the earliest.

Since PlanDeer is built upon the ubiquitous Microsoft Excel, it takes minimal amount of time for someone who has worked with Microsoft Excel even at a basic level. While PlanDeer does use a lot of advanced features of Excel, the implementation details are hidden from the user and hence, the tool expects no such advance Excel knowledge from the user. With user videos and help file being available, an Excel user can even become thoroughly familiar with PlanDeer within a matter of hours!

With User Videos available and the function icons explaining what they do, it is just a matter of few hours of using Jiffy, by the time you would start using JiffySlider effectively!

While purchasing the subscription, after you have selected the desired Purchase-Pack, you have an option to specify the “Number of Packs”. You can modify this to suit your requirements of the number of licenses/activations. For example, if you have selected the subscription pack of 5 Activations for 3 Years, and you actually need 15 licenses, then you could change the “Number of Packs” (from 1) to 3. This would give you the license to use the Product on 15 systems (15 Activations) for 3 years. If the number of licenses are substantially higher, then you may please get in touch with the Publisher at sales@excelsquare.com to obtain the pricing after bulk license discount.

No. The subscription will not get auto-renewed. The user may purchase a new subscription towards the end of period of the current subscription.

You may visit https://www.excelsquare.com/download to see the current subscription pack options available.

You may please refer to "How to Activate" section in the respective activation page: https://www.excelsquare.com/how_to_activate_plandeer - for PlanDeer, https://www.excelsquare.com/how_to_activate_jiffyslider - for JiffySlider

We do have corporate version available for both PlanDeer and JiffySlider. You may please get in touch with the Publisher at sales@excelsquare.com to obtain pricing and other details.

To avoid cancelling of subscriptions, a 30-Day trial period with all-features-enabled, is provided by the Publisher, for PlanDeer as well as JiffySlider. However, due to some unavoidable circumstance, if you need to cancel the subscription, you may do so within 10 days from the date of purchase. In case you have obtained activation codes within that time, you would need to de-activate those activations before requesting cancellation of subscription. The refund process shall be triggered once there are no active-activations from that purchase. The subscription cannot be cancelled if the cancellation request is received after 10 days of the Purchase.

This could happen if a dll is not properly loaded during installation. You may close any active Excel session/s that may be open, and try re-opening PlanDeer file. If it doesn't open, then uninstall PlanDeer and re-install afresh. Check opening PlanDeer again. If the problem persists, you may refer to this document for troubleshooting. In case the problem is still not resolved, you may please contact the Publisher.

You have to Enable Macros for PlanDeer to function. You will find "Enable Content" button which you need to select to enable the macros.

You need to enter the start date for the plan in the "FirstSteps" page. When you open the plan, a default calculated date is set as the start date. Even if you want the same date as the calculated date to be the start date, you need to overwrite that cell with that date. We recommend our users to refer to the Users’ Corner section to check out the video tutorials or refer to the Help file that is accessible through PlanDeer menu.

Across most plan sheets, the right click feature is programmatically avoided for the first and second rows due to data safety reasons. If the click is on either the first or the second row, or, if it is a larger selection and the selection includes either first row or second row or both, (for example, 5 rows from row number 2 to row number 6 are selected), the right click will not come up. If the second row's contents  (in DailyPlan) need to be erased for some reason, select the row and delete the contents (using "Delete" key on the keyboard).