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Count up a number on a Power Point slide

Hi,

for my fathers birthday I want to make presentation containing a slide where with a centered number which counts up from 1 to a 70.
I think one must do this with a VBA procedure?
But I have no idea how to do and how to insert it in my presentation because I very seldom do things with power point.

Any hints or links to tutorials?

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Brian Mulder

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JugglerW

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Thanks but I forgot to say that I have only Power Point 2000 available but the link uses 2002 or 2003 animation features.
Second problem is You can give no less that a second between to stages but this would be too long for me.
Any other hints?

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Brian Mulder

the solution in the link from jjafferr waould help if you're looking at a presentation with less then a second between slides

if you need a hand in trying to implement the code just post a comment

JugglerW

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I've got it running and it works as I expect but I have to start the macro by hand (Extras, Macros, ...).
How can I start it automatically with the presentation?

Brian Mulder

In PPT2000, you could create an eventhandler

There is an article in the PPT FAQ
http:/www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq
which explains this in greater detail

Brian Mulder

sorry for that link
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00004.htm

JugglerW

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Thank you both,

pretty complex stuff to do a simple countdown :-)
Ithink I'll get it to work now.

JugglerW

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@bruintje: Just saw I've selected the wrong answer from you as the assisted. Should have been you last, but think doesn't matter, points are the same :-)