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PowerPoint, Display Time Remaining until Certain time...

I have a power point presentation, that will be presented remotely.  I want people who connect to be see a count down timer until we get started.  I.e. the presentation starts at noon my time.  I want the slide to say something in the corner like, "Starts in 3:45"  Where 3 is minutes, and 45 is seconds..

I'm fine with entering a macro/VBA Script, but its been so long since I've worked with it that I don't recall how to work with the VBA code very well.
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See this article from MS Support - the section is called Make a Countdown Timer and I've made one like this for my own presentations and just tweaked it a little to match my needs.

It seems to work well.
There's a free version of such a tool here:

http://youpresent.co.uk/free-stuff/free-powerpoint-digital-clock/

Full disclaimer - I work for the publisher.
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@Jaime,

The free download link was broken when I tried it.

@hpdvs2,

I do have a working prototype using VBA, but just sorting out a couple of issues with it.  Might be useful...

~bp
Sorry for forgetting the link in my post.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Insert-a-timer-4c3a70d3-8d59-4972-a368-8b4ffc31a606

This is a solution using only Powerpoint functions, nothing third-party.
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Worked almost too well, I tried it at 4:32 PM, but the sample was set for noon, so it didn't show anything, making me think it was broken.  Then I changed the time to end at 6:00 PM and it worked like a charm.  very nice, simple, straight forward.  

There were two other responses.  
1) was a link to a simple count down, but did not have any concept of an ending time.  I wanted to it count down till noon.  showing me the hours/minutes/seconds remaining.
2) was a response for a third party app that required special installs and the free version puts a water mark on the slide.  


Thank you.
Glad that was useful, and I learned a little in the process!  Thanks for the feedback.

~bp