Now, copy this image and the box and paste them onto your next slide. Set this animation to happen over 59 seconds with previous (the disappearing wheel). Line up the motion path so the image will track up and finish at the top of the box you’ve just created (try and get this as exact as possible). Now add a motion path going up (open up the effect options and make sure there is no smooth start or end). Create a thin box and align it so it sits below the picture. Now copy this picture onto your next slide. Align it with the top of the slide (if it will track up) and the bottom of the slide (if it will track down). Insert the picture on your first slide (remember this is the one that will transition manually to begin the countdown). This picture of a table of cakes works well because it begins with an abstract, soft-focus feel, because as the time ticks on the foreground comes into sharper focus. As we said earlier, a portrait picture works best, and ideally it’d be something that doesn’t have a particular area of focus.
This is your countdown done! Step 2: the pictureīut if you want to level-up your countdown here’s how to add a picture in the background. (With the fade transition, we don’t need an animation on this.)Ĭopy this animation onto each of your subsequent slides, changing the figure as you go. In this example our countdown is 15 minutes, so that’s what we put in here. In the centre of your circle add your minutes. You’ll see the default animation length is two seconds, we want to change this to 59 seconds (PowerPoint doesn’t support animations longer than 59 seconds). Navigate to your animation tab and choose wheel as an exit animation (red star). On your second slide draw (or paste in) your circle.
(Do this for all but the beginning and end slide.) Highlight all of these slides and add a fade transition to each of them (that’ll make it look nice and smooth).Īt this point deselect the option to have the slide transition On Mouse Click, and instead choose After, and type in 59.00. Duplicate (ctrl+d) as many slides as you’ll need minutes, and then add two more (these will sit at the beginning and the end as static slides). Open up PowerPoint and get yourself a blank slide.
Figures (again feel free to type your own, or use ours).A circle (you can make this yourself, or use the hand-drawn one we have in the download).