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This utility is a PowerPoint® add-in written in Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Application (VBA) that allows you to speed up or slow down the speed of a presentation or set its end at a specific date/time on the clock. It manages and assists advancing slides, displaying a countdown of the time set for each slide, automatically advancing to the next one when it expires or, if you resume or advance a slide manually, it takes advantage of the time saved and proportionally distributes it in the times set for the following slides, increasing them. Similarly, reducing the time lost if you pause. Speeding up a presentation can be very different from speeding up a video. For example, you can speed up a presentation not by speaking faster as in a sped-up video, but by not reporting some texts and even skipping entire slides that are less important for the time available or for a specific audience, or even for a quick review of an ongoing project or an old one to remember. It may also not be simply a fixed proportional reduction in all slides, but rather, dynamically taking advantage of the time gained in previous slides in the following slides, always within the time available or until a time set on the clock to end the presentation. Following items in this page: Features:- Create a stopwatch in count down on each slide to advance to the next slide when the countdown expires. - The time for each slide is captured from the slide transition's AdvanceTime property, if it is set, or if it is entered directly by the user in a form displayed already with an initial suggestions for each slide.. - The same form (See the first one in the pictures below) allows you to (de)accelerate the speed of the presentation or pin its end to a date/time on the clock with proportional and dynamic distribution of remaining time on the following slides. - Only the amount of time in seconds set in the AdvanceTime property is important. The AdvanceOnTime and AdvanceMode properties that enable it are ignored, because the automatic advance of the slides will be done by the stopwatch and not by PowerPoint and in proportional times according to the desired acceleration. - By default, changes made in the form in the slide times are only useful for the special slide show that will be played from the form when you press its Start button. They do not affect the slide's AdvanceTime property, but if you check the "Consolidate the change here in slide property" option, they will be consolidated into the slide's property and will be available for the immediate slide show and, if the file is saved, for any future ones. This can be useful to define and save in the project the optimal (Normal) durations of the slides and of your presentation. if you check "Hidden SlideShow property" option soon below, the Hidden SlideShow property can also be set for the immediate slide show and future ones. - In the form, by default, the start of the slide show is from the first slide, but it can start from any slide selected in the list box with question or without question, just double-clicking on the slide row. - The form has a textbox with the projected duration of the presentation in seconds, which is the sum of the times eventually defined in the transition AdvanceTime property of each slide in the active presentation. If this property is not set, a default time will be used and shown in another text box which you can change and then press "Relist" button to recalculate the projected duration. You can still change the project duration of the presentation by changing each slide transition duration by selecting in a list box. There is another textbox, perhaps the main one on the form, where you can enter a desired presentation duration, also in seconds, but which you can view and adjust in hours, minutes and seconds in textboxes and controls just below. - In this text box, perhaps the main one in the form, if the desired presentation duration you entered is different from the projected duration calculated above in the form, an acceleration factor other than 1 is automatically calculated, but you can also directly enter an acceleration factor to show all slides at fast, normal or slow speed or take one of the most popular accelerations listed in a combobox. You can also set the presentation end time to the clock and, as long as you do not press the "Start" button, the acceleration factor will automatically increase, proportionally reducing the time available for each slide. However, if during the presentation you anticipate the end of a slide (Resume) or skip slides, the time saved will be distributed proportionally among the remaining slides to keep the end at the pinned time. - If it pinned to end the presentation at a clock time, in addition to the serial stopwatches counting down to the advance of the slides, a parallel stopwatch counting down to the pinned time can be shown in the opposite corner of the screen. - The countdown on a slide can be resumed by the "Resume" button on the timer, which ends the countdown early but performs any events that were scheduled to occur when it expired, such as advancing to the next slide. Additionally, the countdown on a slide can also be simply abandoned, ignored, if a manual advance occurs, such as clicking the mouse on the slide. In this case, another countdown on the next slide is immediately started to continue the automatic advances in series. The time saved in both situations is immediately and automatically distributed proportionally to the following slides. Download:The download required to test the examples listed below for PowerPoint is the same as the COM add-in available on the ‘Popup Stopwatch for Microsoft Excel’ homepage. Note! The add-in for 64-bit versions is not yet available. Tested in Excel 2000, 2002(XP), 2003, 2007, 2010 (32-bit), 2013 (32-bit), 2016 (32-bit), and 2019 (32-bit) in MSI-based and Click-To-Run installations of Office 365™ cloud-based services.
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How to Customize:The PPAccelerator.ppa distributed on this homepage is a signed and compiled file, so it cannot be modified, but its source code and compiler is PowerPointStopwatch_Ex7.ppt also distributed on this site on the homepage of the Popup Stopwatch for Microsoft PowerPoint as one of its examples. You can download it, open it in PowerPoint, set the desired initial options, compile it to ppa and rename it to PPAccelerator.ppa or similar. For example, the stopwatch interface when showing the slide countdown in the upper left corner of the screen comes configured with everything transparent except the font and the display background, but if you prefer it to start completely transparent and only become visible when you move the mouse closer or press the Ctrl key on the keyboard, see the step-by-step guide on how to make this initial customization:
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Download the zipped PowerPointStopwatch_Ex7.ppt
here; All the options in the two Stopwatch for Excel forms that appear at the end of the picture above with the initial PPAccelerator setting can be changed in the same way. The arguments of the fStopwatch() function support all these options and here has a very detailed description that helps you configure each one. While the timer is running or paused, you can show these forms and change any of the available options. To show the "Skin Settings" form, the easiest way is to right-click on the display and, in the menu that appears, activate the "Skin Settings..." command. To show the "Countdown" form, hover your mouse over the top left corner of the display, click on the » control to show all the stopwatch controls, and then click on the "CntDown" button. Note that when showing the controls, a red M control appears just below the mouse, which, if clicked, also show the Menu, the same as right-clicking on the display.
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