Countdown Timer Slide Master

Oct 19, 2020

I swear I had this working last week. I have a simple running countdown timer that I would like visible on every slide. When I went back into the course today, the timer pauses when you advance to a new slide. I'm sure it's something simple.

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Ned Whiteley

Hi Anna,

I'm not sure what your particular problem is, but I noticed that your timer seems overly complicated, with three motion paths and eight variables, and so have attached an example of a basic countdown timer that uses just a single motion path and two variables. This can be set up in a Master Slide and will work over multiple slides without pausing.

In order to get the leading zero when the minutes and seconds are in single figures, I have simply set up a change of state for the text boxes containing the variable references.

If you have any queries, just get back to me here.

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