Make a game timer with PowerPoint

Choose PowerPoint 2003, using the "appearance" in the custom animation, set the time delay of each object to 1 seconds to achieve, the following I introduce the production process in detail.
Enter title
Open PowerPoint 2003, select empty presentation, format with title only, and enter the "English speaking Game timing system" font setting in the title text box bold. As we play the slide, we need to use a simple macro command, so we need to reduce the security of the macro to facilitate our use. Click Tools/Macros/security, and then drop security level to low.
The production of dynamic time display
We want to realize real-time dynamic display time after the start of the timer, here is the countdown (the remaining time). This is accomplished by: Insert a text box on the slide, the contents of the text box are 1, 2, 3, and so on, and then animate the text boxes with the appearance effect inside the custom animation, with each object appearing 1 seconds after the previous object appears.
In this case, because the time of the timer is 30 seconds, should need 30 text boxes, but the first text box delay time is 0 seconds, so we want to insert a total of 31 text boxes, the first text box has no dwell time, the contents of these text boxes are 30, 29 ... 2, 1, 0, that is, the first text box content is "30", the last text box content is "0", so that the input can be used in the next animation settings, set all the text box alignment is horizontal center, vertical center. Here's an example of how to set up a custom animation effect for a text box to illustrate the steps:

1. Select the text box where you want to set the custom animation.

2. Open the menu slide Show/Custom animation, and in the Custom Animation dialog box that pops up, we click Add Effect/Enter/appear to set the animation effect for this object to appear.

3. In the pop-up dialog box, click the Drop-down button to the right of the object you want to set, and select the effect Options command.

      4. When you click the effect Options command, the Show dialog box pops up, in which we click the Effects tab to set the animation to be hidden after next click, no sound, whole batch send. Then select the Timing tab and set the start to "after" and the delay to "1 seconds."

      Set the Custom animation for all text boxes individually by following these steps: Play as appears, and the effect after the animation: all text (except text 31) is "Next click Hide",
       Text 31 is "do not darken". The starting mode is: All text (except Text 1) is deferred to 1 seconds for the previous animation,
      1 is "click" for Start, and the delay is 0 seconds, and the text box is in the order of "Text 1", "Text 2" until " Text 31 ". Shape 2 to shape 32, as shown in the figure.
     Finally, we insert two decorative text boxes, the input is "end of distance and", "second", adjust the position, so that the dynamic time display part of the production completed. The
     progress bar production
     progress bar helps us to see the time we've spent. This example is shown as a percentage, where the progress bar is implemented with a rectangle, and every 2 seconds the progress bar is transformed (that is, a rectangle appears every 2 seconds), so we need 15 rectangular blocks.
     make a rectangular block on the slide and then copy the other, the size of the rectangle. We have the proper grasp, set the Rectangle property to: Fill the color "blue", "Wireless Bar", and then arrange the rectangles as shown in Figure 2 of the style, To achieve the effect of the progress bar shown in Figure 1, we insert a larger rectangle below the progress bar, and then set the color to be darker, stacking the order to "bottom".
     below set the animation of the rectangles in the progress bar, we open the menu slide Show/Custom animation in the pop-up Custom Animation dialog box, we set each rectangle individually: The animation sequence inserts a rectangle after two text, In this example, the text 1 corresponds to the shape 2 in the custom animation, and so on, because the first text box stays at 0, so the first rectangle is behind the third text box, the second rectangle is after the 5th, and so on, and the first rectangle in this example corresponds to the rectangle 33 in the custom animation. So in the Custom Animation dialog box, adjust the animation order to "Shape 4" under "Rectangle"
    "Shape 6" under "Rectangle 34" until "shape 32" below is "Rectangle 47", all of the rectangles are started animation by: "Start"The mode is "before", "delay" is 1 seconds, and all rectangles have the effect: "appear", "Animate does not darken".
     Finally, we modify the progress bar, add the indicator number "0, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%" below it, and then "distribute" the numbers horizontally, and the progress bar section is finished.
     button Making
     finally we make the "Start Timer" button, open the Menu "View/Toolbar/Control Toolbox", click the Button tool, Then drag a button on the slide, right-click the button, open the Properties dialog box, set the "caption" property to "start timing", close the dialog box, return to the slide page, double-click the button, and enter the following code in the Code window that appears:
              Private Sub CommandButton1_Click ()
              ActivePresentation.SlideShowSettings.Run
              SlideShowWindows (index:=1). View.next
             End Sub
      Our production complete, to check the results, press the "F5" show the slide, and then click the "Start Timing" button, the time to start, the effect as shown in the picture.
Tip: During playback, you first need to verify that the macro security level for PowerPoint is low, or you will not be able to invoke the timing feature.