There is a sound effect at the end of each timer – this is the ‘Laser’ sound effect within PowerPoint – this could easily be removed or replaced with your own sound effect. ![]() You would need to change the custom animation settings for this. The timers are preset to start on the click of the mouse, this could be changed to start automatically on going to that slide, or on the click of a button. Timers can be resized, or formatted – just make sure you highlight all of the items at the same time (by using same method as above). You can now ‘copy’ – go into your presentation and paste. To use a timer, all you need to do is enter the editing mode of PowerPoint - copy desired timer into your presentation, each timer is made up of many components, so when copying – you need to use the mouse to select all the components to do this – click and hold the mouse, top left of the timer, then whilst holding mouse button down, drag the mouse to bottom right of timer and release – everything within the region should be selected. There are timers for 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes and 20 minutes. If appropriate a timer can be introduced, to ‘time’ how long is available for them to complete the activity. The idea behind this, is one way to make a PowerPoint presentation to a large audience, slightly more interactive, is to set the students a question, activity, calculation etc. Clicking again will forward the timer to the end of its sequence. To see the timers in action, click the mouse to move forward a slide, then click again to start timer. How to create a Countdown Timer in PowerPoint Open PowerPoint. The progress bar should appear to grow from the left side of the screen for 30 seconds and then stop.2 Countdown Timers The following slides contain a series of ‘timers’ that can be used in PowerPoint 2003, they may also work in earlier versions of PowerPoint. Countdown Timers for PowerPoint The ability to easily add countdown timers of different time durations into a PowerPoint presentation. A Countdown timer is a design element that is used to countdown to a particular event. When you’re done, try it out by going to Slideshow Mode and playing From Current Slide. Here’s what your settings should look like: In the Timing group, set the Duration to the number of seconds you want the progress bar to run, for example, 30 seconds. On the Animations tab, in the Animation group, select Fly In.Ĭlick Effect Options, and select From Left. Right-click the bar, and select Format Shape > Shape Options > Fill > Solid fill. On the slide, click where you want the progress bar, and draw a rectangle with its edge against the left border of the slide. ![]() On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click Shapes, and select a rectangle. Top of Page How to create a progress bar timerĪnother effective way to add a countdown timer is to emulate the appearance of a progress bar. You can use any interval, but it’s a good idea to set the same delay for each object in the sequence. Note: You can just as easily animate shapes to appear or disappear using the different entrance and exit animations in PowerPoint. Again in the Timing group, set the timing details to: Start: After Previous, Duration: Auto, and Delay: 01:00. Now, in the Animation Pane, select the rest of the rectangles one at a time, from 4 to 1. Select Rectangle 5, and in the Animations > Timing group, leave the settings Start: On Click and Duration. You want the other boxes to then each wait one second before disappearing automatically, one by one. ![]() You want only the first rectangle with the number 5 to start on a click, and you want it to stay on screen for one second before it disappears. Look at the number to the right, which shows the text in the rectangle. The numbering of the rectangles can be a little confusing because PowerPoint is accounting for other objects on the slide. Select the rest of the rectangles 4, 3, 2, 1 in order, and apply the same exit animation, Disappear, to each, one at a time.Ĭlick Animations > Animation Pane to show the Animation Pane. Here, you can select the animation you want, for example Disappear. On the Animations tab, in the Advanced Animation group, click Add Animation, and go down to Exit. You can copy and paste to duplicate and then edit the new boxes.Ĭlick inside the text rectangle with the number. To create text boxes, on the Insert tab, in Text group, click Text box, and draw the text box on your slide. Tip: Create the boxes in order from highest to lowest so it’s easier to animate them in order.
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