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Hello,
PowerPoint does not have the ability to display a dynamically updating date
and/or time during slide show. Although there are various add-in's and
workarounds available (
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00081.htm), many
of them will not work if you are using the PowerPoint Viewer to display
your slide show.
If it is important to you (or anyone else reading this message) that
PowerPoint provide an out-of-the-box capability for easily displaying
current (dynamically updating) time and/or date in various formats
(including such things as a countdown timer, analog clock, etc.) during
slide show (without having to resort to VBA or add-ins, so that the
solution will also work in the Viewer), please send your feedback (in YOUR
OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.
IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions)
John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows
For FAQ's, highlights and top issues, visit the Microsoft PowerPoint
support center at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=ppt
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbhowto
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