Comments on: PowerPoint Countdown Timer

By: Aldrian

Aldrian — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:19:48 +0000

this is cool! thank you. i can use this for our mini-concert.

By: LibraryTeacher

LibraryTeacher — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:16:55 +0000

Very cool! I thought my students would like it but I was surprised at how much it motivated them to stay on task, then come back together to whole group at the end!

By: Jessica Pyne

Jessica Pyne — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:35:03 +0000

Hi Stuart,

I don’t know where you got your 20-second statistic from, as I’m afraid it’s really not that simple! It’s easy to cut down whole minutes but as you’ve discovered, cutting it down to seconds involves a lot of editing. I’ll ask our designers to provide a guide and email it on to you, but I don’t know how easy to follow it will be. If you really want a 30 second timer now our Digital PowerPoint Timer has 10, 20 and 30 second versions available.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:08:06 +0000

Hi there,

I was wondering how it is possible to change the timer to 30 seconds when dealing as in depth as to work with the animations. I was told by a co-worker that someone we know previously grabbed the timer and in 20 seconds changed it to 30. I’ve done all the research possible even as far as to try changing the animations to make it work. I’m stuck; I have no idea. I understand that you stated before you do not have a 30 second version, but is there a way I can change this timer even if it’s time consuming?

Thank you for your time,
Stuart

By: Margaret

Margaret — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:20:26 +0000

This is awesome! Definitely will help me out running a “Flash Mentoring Event” at work, timed at 9 minutes each session.

I have one issue though. It seems to stop after one minute. I tried your recommendation above, but it doesn’t seem to work. Any suggestions? My event is tomorrow!

By: Jessica Pyne

Jessica Pyne — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:10:32 +0000

Hi Arlene – We’d very much like there to be a 30 second version of this timer available, but unfortunately our designers just haven’t had the time to develop this. I promise that as soon as they have a spare moment, this is our next priority – but I can’t tell you when that spare moment will be!

By: Arlene

Arlene — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:51:31 +0000

Any chance the 30 second timer is available for the previous not digital edition? :-)

By: Jessica Pyne

Jessica Pyne — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:21:01 +0000

Glad we could help, Regnick! Hope your countdown went well.

By: Regnick

Regnick — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:38:49 +0000

Awesome…..i really loved it and cant wait to use it as i count down the end of 2011…if i didnt get such a timer ma bosses where going to fire me….Thanx alot guys …we can share my next months salary..lol

By: Jessica Pyne

Jessica Pyne — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:05:02 +0000

Hi Dianne, download the file by clicking on the relevant link and simply start the slides in slideshow mode – they will run as a presentation. Starting from different slides will give you a different length of countdown. If you want to insert the slides within a presentation, simply copy and paste the countdown slides in place within your presentation.

By: dianne

dianne — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:29:26 +0000

Hello,

Sorry to be such a doofus, but how the heck do I get this to work? I would love to have a timer to training powerpoint I am working on for someone.

Thank you!!

By: Dinuwan

Dinuwan — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:57:55 +0000

Fantaastic………….

By: Jessica Pyne

Jessica Pyne — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:25:38 +0000

Glad we could help, Anect.

By: Anect Rivas

Anect Rivas — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:07:29 +0000

SUPER handy

By: Jessica Pyne

Jessica Pyne — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:50:50 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Ian. Unfortunately there is no easy way to edit the file to do this, but you could pause the slideshow at the relevant point and then continue to play it when required. Hope your conference goes well!

By: Ian Maclaren

Ian Maclaren — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:05:09 +0000

Absolutely brilliant idea and timer. Is there an easy way to make a countdown at half minute intervals as I have a conference where the time allocated to each speaker is 7mins 30 sec.

Thanks for your brilliant support

Ian

By: Jessica Pyne

Jessica Pyne — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:02:26 +0000

Hi Mark – Unfortunately, this would be pretty complicated, and there’s no simple way to do it. We do actually have a request in with the design team to produce a version of this timer for exactly that, but as they are constantly busy with client work we can’t promise that this will be ready soon! I’ll be posting it up as soon as it is, so keep checking back – but for now, I’m afraid that we can only offer you the full size version.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:16:49 +0000

I’d love to use this timer in conjunction with a discussion question. How would I alter the slides so that I can make the timer smaller, to allow for more of the screen to be dedicated to text?

Thanks you!

By: Jessica Pyne

Jessica Pyne — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:50:18 +0000

Hi Lisa, have you checked your slide transition settings? You may have it set so that you have to click to advance the slide. If this isn’t the case, can you reply with a little more information? What version of PowerPoint are you using? Are you on a PC or a Mac? As I mentioned above, it might be worth trying the file on a different computer, or downloading it again. Let me know if you’re still having problems, and we’ll see what we can do.

By: Jessica Pyne

Jessica Pyne — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:39:09 +0000

Glad to have proved so useful, Kate! Hope your fundraiser goes well.