Countdown Timer in Powerpoint
Monday, September 29th, 2008I found myself struggling to create a simple, efficient countdown timer in PowerPoint and finally found a solution to share with you.
My situation is for a training course. I want to give the students 5 minutes to work on an exercise. Rather than making separate slides and have each one run for 60 seconds, I wanted to consolidate text (or graphics) on one slide and display each for the appropriate amount of time. The catch to all this is I want the “5″ to go away when the “4″ appears. Having this all one on slide makes it easy to reuse the slide for other exercises later in the training, rather than copying six (one for each minute and one to say “TIME!”) several times.
