current time display in slide show

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Using PowerPoint 2002, a part of Office XP professional.
All 3 service packs are applied. Is there any way to
display current time during slide show? I have added date
and time by selecting Update automatically in slide tab of
Header and Footer but it does not count during slide show,
although each time I start the show, it is updated. I am
looking for the way to display counting current time in
slide show.

Thank you for your help.
 
Thank you, Sonia,
The first link has exactly what I was looking for.
However, It seems that it does not stay with the
presentation even I hit save before running the slide
show. Could I be doing something wrong?
 
[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

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, however, if you are using the PowerPoint Viewer to
display/distribute 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

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I haven't used it, but it's an add-in to PowerPoint so you may have to
install it on the system where the presentation is being played.
You would need to write to Tushar to get more details.
 
OK, Thank you, Sonia.
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I haven't used it, but it's an add-in to PowerPoint so you may have to
install it on the system where the presentation is being played.
You would need to write to Tushar to get more details.




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