is it possible to create a countdown?

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Dan Hicks

Hello,

My boss came in today asking for a countdown to appear before a
presentation so people would know exactly when it was to start by
looking up at the screen. Is there a way to create a countdown in
powerpoint, or at least a way to display the current time?

Thanks, any ideas are much appreciated.
 
Easy to accomplish. Create a series of new slides, one for each minute. Add
an image of clock, big digital clock numbers or other graphic. Go into slide
transitions and set each to auto advance after 60 seconds.

To make things run smooth I would recommend creating a welcome slide (name
of conference, logo, etc.), when ready to give a 5 minute countdown,
manually advance to slide #2 which is the beginning of the countdown
autoadvancing slides.

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Hello,

PowerPoint does not have the ability to display a counter, 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 a
counter, current (dynamically updating) time and/or date in various formats
(including such things as a countdown/up timer, analog clock, odometer,
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

It's VERY important that, for EACH wish, you describe in detail, WHY it is
important TO YOU that your product suggestion be implemented. A good wish
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working around a specific limitation of the current product, etc. Remember
that 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 so that we can FEEL YOUR PAIN.

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
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