Download Powerpoint Countdown Timer Template

[Eberardo Topher]

Countdownsin PowerPoint presentations can help to make your presentation more dynamic. In this blog post you will find instructions on how to quickly and easily add your own digital timer to PowerPoint. However, if you prefer predefined designs, we have prepared different templates for you to download.

Breaks are essential in presentations to allow the audience to process the information they got. When the audience is tuning out, it is often not due to the presenter, but to an overload of information. In this case, a pause is an effective way to digest the information and rebuild the attendees' attention. In order not to forget about breaks, it is advisable to include slides with a break countdown in your presentation. The countdown ensures that all your listeners will return from the break on time.

When giving presentations, you should involve your audience in your talk. An interactive presentation with exercises motivates your participants and makes them to active listeners. To avoid exceeding your time schedule, you can use a timer in your presentation. This way, your audience also keeps track of how much time is left for the exercise.

If ideas should be collected during a presentation, it is suitable to brainstorm with your audience. Especially here it's important to set the time limit for brainstorming beforehand. While your participants are brainstorming ideas, you can use a PowerPoint countdown to show the remaining time.

To learn more about your audience, you can start a presentation with a poll, for example. With SlideLizard it is possible to conduct polls and surveys during presentations. Even while the poll is running, you can see a live evaluation of the results in the speaker view. Meanwhile your audience is able to see a countdown to know how long the poll is already running. You can find more about the survey function of SlideLizard here.

Creating countdowns in PowerPoint works quite easily. With this simple bar timer, you can show your audience exactly how much time is left of the break. Follow these 4 steps to add a countdown to PowerPoint presentations.

Another possibility for a countdown would be to install so-called add-ins. Add-ins are special functions you can add to your standard PowerPoint toolbar.

We have tested various PowerPoint add-ins and summarized their advantages and disadvantages for you. Now we present to you the 3 best countdown add-ins.

We will be learning how to create a countdown timer in Microsoft PowerPoint using VBA Macros. You don't have to sit and tediously create separate text boxes for each number and animate them. Let me show you how to use PowerPoint in a smarter manner.

The following video tutorial goes into the details of the VBA Code of the Countdown Timer. It also shows how we can have the Countdown Timer span across multiple slides of the presentation. We can also trigger an action to occur when the time is up.

A conditional loop is present to update the text within the countdown shape. The condition is that the loop must continue until Now() becomes greater than time. To continue the example, as the current time ticks from 00:00:00 to 00:00:30 the loop occurs, however, once it is 00:00:31, the loop stops as the current time has become greater than our set future time.

Once the current time surpasses the future time, we can trigger a MsgBox pop-up to notify us that the countdown is over. This is possible with an if-then condition present within the Do Loop. Instead of a message box, you can also redirect the presentation to a certain slide or play a sound effect.

If you want to change the countdown value directly in Slide Show Mode without touching the VBA Code, we can add an ActiveX Element Textbox named TextBox1 in our slide. We can type the number of seconds we would want the countdown to occur within it. This input is going to be the value of the variable count. We can read the input using the following code:

In order to embed the same countdown timer throughout multiple PowerPoint Slides: if there is a timer for 30 seconds and we go to the next slide after 10 seconds, the timer in the slide should resume the countdown from 20.

We can also increase or decrease the countdown timer while in PowerPoint Slide Show Mode. This feature is commonly used by teachers playing PowerPoint Games in their classroom. For example, while playing a timed quiz game, the time limit can be decreased on click of a wrong answer. Similarly, the countdown timer can also be increased.

Initially, we need to declare the variable time above all the sub-routines. This will allow us to reference the same variable within various other sub-routines: AddTime or SubtractTime. Since we are declaring it once, we do not have to declare it once more within the sub-routines.

When the Pause Button is clicked, the timer freezes and the remaining time is calculated using the DateDiff Function. When the countdown timer is resumed, the future time is updated by adding the remaining time to Now().

The text within the shape is the difference between the current time (which keeps increasing) and time1 (constant: the time at which the code was run), and hence as the difference keeps widening, the count up occurs. The loop continues until the current time becomes greater than time2.

This free smart PowerPoint template of a countdown timer can be used on screen to count down from a 20 minute starting point. It is a useful counter for tests and races, you could use it for team building activities. If you are struggling to focus set the digital clock and have a small treat at the end.

You can add an animated on-screen timer or progress bar to make your presentation more interesting. For example, you might want to include a timed quiz at the end of a training with a countdown display. You can use the animation features in PowerPoint to create many different kinds of timers.

To create text boxes, on the Insert tab, in Text group, click Text box, and draw the text box on your slide. Then add the number. You can copy and paste to duplicate and then edit the new boxes.

Click Animations > Animation Pane to show the Animation Pane. The numbering of the rectangles can be a little confusing because PowerPoint is accounting for other objects on the slide. Look at the number to the right, which shows the text in the rectangle.

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. You want the other boxes to then each wait one second before disappearing automatically, one by one.

To insert a countdown timer in PowerPoint, you can download one of the countdown timer templates available in this category, and then open them in PowerPoint. Finally, copy and paste the shapes and make sure to preserve the animations (if applicable) in your final presentation.

Some other techniques involve adding custom animations to your slides. You can add countdown shapes and then animate each of the shapes to represent a countdown. The article animated countdown timer in PowerPoint describes how to do this in PowerPoint

I trying to help my wife, a techer, to create a game for her class. She wants to make a game using powerpoint . She wants to make the game Pyramid based on the TV Game Show Pyramid (I think the latest version of Pyramid was on in the early 2000 hosted by Donny Osmond). There are many, many aspects to this game that I'm having trouble trying to figure out how to do this on powerpoint 2010. As I said there are many but let's start off with this one: To make a stopwatch (45 seconds) and not a stand alone one but one that works interactivey with the slide(s). So firstly to make a stopwatch and then secondly to have it work interactively with the slides. And can start and stop on either a mouse click or pressing a specific key(s). Can anyone help?

It built images of 1-30 and placed them ontop of each other .. used the animation to disappear one after the other using the timing effect delay of 2 minutes. This version doesn't inlcude the starting and stopping of the clock based on user interaction. But I'm thinking that you could use a trigger to stop the clock when the user clicks on something and use a trigger to start it. This would mean placing this trigger over and over again after each of the time built images. May be a better way to do it - but not sure. Also, the PPT on the link is very very basic from a visual perspective but I thought maybe the "workings" of it might be helpful to you. Goodluck and let me know if you get the starting and stopping worked out.

Thanks for this link. I looked it over and parts of it are helpful. I pretty much now got my ppt prsentation the way I want it but for the timer. I find it hard to believe that no one out there wanted to do the same thing I want to do. I mean, I'm surfing the web and I see a whole bunch of game templates mimicking popular TV game shows, so why isn't there a template out there mimicking exactly Pyramid and I mean specifically the timer/stopwatch. I see templates (like the one you sent me) mimicking everything but. Again, I can't believe someone didn't figure out how to use the present features of PPT to make a count down/up timer that can stop - or a better way to put it, to "Pause" the clock to se how much time was taken to answer all six in the category, then press clear or reset to either put the clock back to zero and go up or i.e. 60 and go down.

I have another thought, please think this through maybe it can be done and it's easier. Let's use a countdown timer for example. let's say it's a 30 second timer. and let's say the person/team took 20 seconds to answer everything. What if at the 10 second mark the mouse is clicked right over the timer or a particular key is pressed, which makes the numbers from 9 on down still count down but it's hiding behind a coloured shape, i.e. the timer itself and it's colour. So you still have the timer working but since you can't see what's happening in the background IT LOOKS LIKE THE TIME STOPPED. Can that work and is it an easier thing to do? Do you know of anyone whose thought of that?

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