Animation on multiple slides

[Esben]

Hi,

I would like to create some kind of stop watch in my PP presentation in
order to ensure that the presentation I do will take no longer than 10
minutes. I have created a rectangle and animated it in such a way that the
rectangle will slowly grow in length from left to right growing to full
length when the 10 minutes have passed.

My problem is that I want the animated rectangle to continue on the next
slide also. For instance if I turn to the next slide after 6 min I would like
the rectangle to continue from 6 min and so on......

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks!

 

[Sandy Johnson]

This isn't an answer to what you specifically requested, but you could set
your slides to automatically advance after a specific amount of time totally
10 minutes.

 

[David Marcovitz]

Hi,

I would like to create some kind of stop watch in my PP presentation in
order to ensure that the presentation I do will take no longer than 10
minutes. I have created a rectangle and animated it in such a way that the
rectangle will slowly grow in length from left to right growing to full
length when the 10 minutes have passed.

My problem is that I want the animated rectangle to continue on the next
slide also. For instance if I turn to the next slide after 6 min I would like
the rectangle to continue from 6 min and so on......

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks!

I can only think of two options for this (neither of which is likely to
be what you want to hear). One option is VBA. Something like this could
be coded in VBA. Have you done any coding? The other option (I even
hesitate to mention this) is to do everything on one slide. It would be
ugly and hard to manage, but with a lot of work, you could use
animations to make it look like multiple slides so the audience would
never know the difference (except you'd probably have less hair...from
pulling your hair out trying to get this to work).

--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

 

[John Wilson]

Animations won't play across slides.

There are some AddIns that show a timer and also some standalone programs
that can show a timer over the presentation (TimeLeft springs to mind but
there are others)

The only way I know to get a growing bar across slides is to have a small
video which can play across slides. Sounds an unlikely solution but we have a
free sample that may do exactly what you need and the file size is tiny!

http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/PowerPoint timer vid.html

 

[Esben]

Ok - thank you all for your help.

I suspected that the only way besides a standalone program was VbA code.

Thank you for the link, I will try that.

rgds, Esben

 

[jpforestier]

I use an animation on each slide (a very discret animation) that I program
(very easily) for X or Y seconds showing changing colors (from green to red)
so I know when I've to change my slide during a conference