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There are few things more boring than waiting for a presentation to begin. As a result, the energy and motivation in the presentation room can die by the time you’re making your presentation, causing it to have much less of an impact than you would like.

To help avoid this, you can insert a digital timer into your PowerPoint slide to let the audience know exactly how long it will be before you begin. You could set the timer for 8 minutes, 10 minutes or any amount of time you wish. Just try not to make the audience wait too long, or they’ll be too bored to even listen to you by the time you begin. There isn’t a specific automated way to create a PowerPoint stopwatch or countdown timer in PowerPoint, so it isn’t straightforward.

However, you can display a number on a PowerPoint slide and set the time before the next slide is displayed, making it possible to create a makeshift timer. How to Create a PowerPoint Stopwatch Launch PowerPoint The first step is to launch Microsoft PowerPoint.

Once you’ve done that, create a new presentation. Create New Slide At the very top of the window, you will find a button labeled Home. Click on it and then select the option labeled New Slide. Keep clicking it until you feel like you have enough slides for the countdown timer you want to make. Each slide should ideally correspond to a minute. So if you’re counting down from 10, you will need 10 slides.

Select First Slide On the left, you will see a pane showing the slides you have created in order. Select the first one. Click on Insert Button At the top of the PowerPoint window, you will see a button labeled Insert. Insert Text Box Now we need to insert a text box in the slide we have just selected.

Click on the option labeled Text Box in order to begin the process of inserting a text box. Position Text Box Click just once on your slide and the text box will be inserted. Next, you can click and drag the text box in order to position it in the center of the slide.

Select Font Size You now need to select a font size. Click on the drop-down box labeled Font Size at the top of the window. Select a large font size for maximum visibility. You can then type into the text box the number you would like to start the countdown from. Copy Text Box to Clipboard Select the text box you inserted and press the shortcut “Ctrl-C” on your keyboard to copy the text box to your clipboard. Pick Next Slide From the left pane, select the next slide. Paste Text Box in Next Slide Press “Ctrl-V” on your keyboard to paste the text box into the next slide.

Change Number in Text Box Click on the inside of the text box and select the number you had entered. Change it to the next number in the countdown. Rinse and Repeat Do this for all the other countdown slides, inserting one number per slide.

Pick Transition Select any slide from the left pane and press the shortcut “Ctrl-A” on your keyboard to select all the slides. Click on the button labeled Transitions at the top. In the Advance Slide section, uncheck the “On Mouse Click” checkbox. Instead, check the “After' checkbox and select the amount of time to pass until the display of the next display.

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Play Timer To play the presentation, press F5 on your keyboard.