Great tutorial! For those who are not familiar with VB script, copy and paste the following lines to the VB application: Public clock As Boolean Public currenttime, currentday As String Sub Pause() Dim PauseTime, Start PauseTime = 1 Start = Timer Do While Timer DoEvents Loop End Sub Sub StartClock() clock = Time Do Until clock = False On Error Resume Next currenttime = Format((Now()), "hh:mm:ss AM/PM") currenttime = Mid(currenttime, 1, Len(currenttime) - 3) ActivePresentation.Slides(SlideShowWindows(1).View.CurrentShowPosition).Shapes("shpClock").TextFrame.TextRange.Text = currenttime Pause Loop End Sub Sub OnSlideShowPageChange(ByVal objWindow As SlideShowWindow) clock = Flase ActivePresentation.Slides(SlideShowWindows(1).View.CurrentShowPosition).Shapes("shpClock").TextFrame.TextRange.Text = "--:--:--" End Sub Sub OnSlideShowPageTerminate() clock = False End Sub

@JorgePrates

3 жыл бұрын

what is currentday for ?

@JorgePrates

3 жыл бұрын

clock = Time -> clock = True clock = Flase -> clock = False

Awesome! I followed your instructions and the clock is working perfectly on my PPT presentations. :)

*OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH! I'VE BEEN TRYING THIS FOREVER!!*

Awesome tutorial - exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

I am clearly going to be the coolest teacher (biggest nerd) in the school now with my timer and my clock in slide shows! Thanks! So helpful!

@TheTechTrain

4 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you liked it ChickenFish

AMAZING! It does exactly what I wanted. I've never coded before and you made it super easy. Thank you!

@TheTechTrain

2 ай бұрын

I'm so glad it worked for you, and that you enjoyed it! 😊

I woke up today having never coded anything. I am ending my day with a clock in my teaching slides. (Canadian: We don't use the word Faff, but I know it from watching enough British youtube content. It is an excellent word and I've started adopting it). Your explanation was clear, concise, and I was able to troubleshoot and edit to my heart's content (I didn't need the seconds appearing on the slide). Thanks so much!

I have never coded anything - but I managed this, few oops moments. Thank you! Was desperately trying to show time on a PowerPoint for my students! YOU ARE AWESOME.

Thank you! This works so well for my college's information hub!

Excellent presentation - clear and at the right speed.

Incredible! Thank you so much. You are an incredible instructor :-)

@TheTechTrain

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! That's very kind of you to say so. I'm so glad you liked the video.

Huge help for my presentations. Thank you!

Thanks for the tutorial, it is clear, easy, awesome.....! You are the man.

That is just what I needed. I used to use a flash clock until they no longer supported it. This will be a lifesaver!

@TheTechTrain

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad it helped

Very very informative! Love the explanations for every piece.

Wow, thank you as a teacher with limited funds this has really made a difference! Thank YOU!!!!!!!!!!

@TheTechTrain

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad to be able to help! If you need a low budget, DIY resource, please let me know - I welcome ideas and challenges to add to the channel!

This is save my life. I was asked to put clock on ppt slides for a zoom meeting, so people from different time zone aware of time. I went through several matsclock for ppt video tutorial, but unfortunately it is not working anymore with the absence of flash player. I have no basic in writing coding, but I have to do since there is no other option than using macro. After correcting some typos that made the macro did not run, Finally, I made it. It shows in my ppt slide. Thanks The Tech Train.

Hi, Thanks for sharing the video it helped a lot to unlock my clock. I further checked on internet and managed to use (almost) continuous clock by assigning the action "MouseOver" to some major objects on my presentation slides

@RaxLakhani

3 жыл бұрын

That's a genius workaround! So, you could, for example, insert a giant transparent rectangle in the foreground of the slide and insert the mouseover action to run the macro? Any slight movement would update with current time. I guess with this solution, the step at 26:17 can be removed?

Thank you! I hardly ever log in to like or comment on YT, but this tutorial deserved both.

@TheTechTrain

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I'm very glad you enjoyed it. 😊

Very helpful tutorial - I am familiar with VB, so could have sped up a bit when discussing the program, but I appreciate that the audience is diverse and the explanations are nice and clear. Still amazed that there is no clock/timer functions as default within Powerpoint....

Absolutely brilliant, my friend: worked like a dream. Heck, there was no faff either!

@TheTechTrain

3 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you liked it joestevens66

This was so very helpful! Thank you - thank you - thank you. Your comments and instruction were very easy to follow. I manage a civic center for the community. This will look great on the screens.

@TheTechTrain

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Cool tutorial. Other than official presentations (where the template limits the experiments on the fonts, I concur with you on the challenge to find the right font for the presentations.

Thank you Sir. What you have showed me was extremely helpful and I appreciate the time you took to make this video. I will be using this as a timer in church to show real time as we go into the year 2020 and I will also be using it for other services

@TheTechTrain

4 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you like it, and I hope it works well for you for your New Year celebration. Happy 2020!

@prophetwayne9397

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sir God Bless. Iv liked, subscribed and shared your video and will definitely start following you. Your content will be extremely useful for me

@transportfan08

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheTechTrain I'm using this and I love it, *BUT* I need to add a custom countdown timer like this with NO FLASH. The videos on how to do this use youtube videos, make you pay EXTREME amounts of money for a software *subscription* OR use animations and only count down from 5 or 10. If you could make a video like this on *but a countdown timer* I would really appreciate it. Regards, Conor.

Well Done! Heck ya! (yes, we use that term...ya gotta watch the video!) You are a very talented teacher. I had one small typo so I had to debugg to find it. Purely my fault, though, your video was terrific. I'll be back!

@TheTechTrain

3 жыл бұрын

Heck, what a great comment! Thank you so much, and very glad you liked it.

Excellent tutorial, thank you!

Thank you for this solution. I is nearly complete for me. I need to work on getting the clock to activate automatically rather than click on it but I'll do that soon. With regard to faffy/faffie etc. In the US, I've used Wiggy. This is when something is a bit 'weird' in its action or implementation. Heck... well that it the polite word. Dang, and other not so polite words can be used in its place but heck works well.

Thank you so much.It is very helpful.step by step explantion very nice

Wow! Thank you very much! This was really cool to learn!

Thanks for this Awesome tutorial , I used it to add a clock to the waiting room Slide for my online class, the only tweak I made was changing the " --:--:-- " to "START"

@TheTechTrain

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

Really excellent - very clear instructions. One thing that I might add into this, would be how to recycle the same macro into other PPT files. Many thanks again,

@TheTechTrain

3 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you found it useful, thanks.

This is it ! Thank you very much.

Thank you for helping me because I need it for the PowerPoint os.👍😇

Thanks for this tip. Since I did not like when the letters in fonts have different width the output moves a bit when the clock runs. I modified this so that everyletter as well as the colon-texts were own ones. Now the placing is not changing even though showing numbers of different width. I will also make an other modification, that is to be used for short breaks. But thumbs up for this code snip.

@gaurav.anirbandutta

2 жыл бұрын

Share the code please

Thank you so much this was great!

Thank you for this! Choosing the font does take time. Hoping to see how to make a timer that you can set for a certain period of time for breaks.

Excellent teacher thank you

Thank you so much for your guidance! I don't know code, and your step by step explanation made me a winner! Thank you!

@natashaabrahams9251

3 жыл бұрын

Is there any way I could embed or copy this clock into Google Slides? Or is that a different code?

@TheTechTrain

3 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you found it useful!

@TheTechTrain

3 жыл бұрын

I'm afraid that Google Slides uses a completely different coding language, so this couldn't just be copied across. I may look at covering Google coding at some point in the future.

@natashaabrahams9251

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheTechTrain Thanks so much!

@scarpien

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheTechTrain Please do. I have the same concern. I guess in the meantime I'll create a powerpoint of my classroom scene.

Fantastic - great Job.

@TheTechTrain

Ай бұрын

Many thanks!

Thanks this tutorial video! Help me a lot.

Excellent tutorial, thanks a lot, how can I Start the clock automatically on the slide load? thanks for letting me know

thank you for teaching us. 🙂

@TheTechTrain

Ай бұрын

My pleasure 😊

Thanks very much for a very carefully put together tutorial, you are a talented teacher. I am on Mac atm (my home machine) so had to add the VB add-in from Bright Carbon to follow tutorial. No problem with code on the face of it having debugged it. But the clock will not display on mouse click. I am guessing this is to do with the proper name for system time in OSX not being the same in Windows. If anyone has any insight on how to pull system time into this code on a Mac I would be very grateful. In the meantime off for more coffee and some research.

Thank you very much, very helpful!

@TheTechTrain

3 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome, I'm so glad.

Cool and great Pedagogy!

Thank you so much! In the south US, we say "Finicky" and we say "Heck."

This was awesome! Great detail and explanation THANK YOU! Do you have a code that will do a countdown timer similar to this?

Yay! I did it!! The Timer/Clock function on the Promeathan Board at work does not show the clock or timer. With this embedded clock, the students can tell the time during their NYS ELA Regents exams. Thanks!

excellent! it works!

@TheTechTrain

2 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

Loved this video! Super helpful. I am a teacher as well, and having the time displayed on my slides is often something I desperately need. It seems like there should be a built-in live clock, or at least an ad-in, but I couldn't find one anywhere! Something I loved about this tutorial was that it wasn't just an explanation of how to do it, but also why you need every part and what each code line does. I feel like I learned a lot more than just how to insert a live clock into my slide show. I was wonder, though, is there a way to make it so that the clock is just constantly running on every slide? Having to click the text box in order to start the clock can be a little tedious. I really just want a constant live clock in the bottom corner of my slide show so that my students never have to ask me what time it is, or use that as an excuse to pull out their phones. I tried to just ad another bit of code that says to run the start clock subroutine on slide transition, but that didn't work at all. I don't know if I typed the code in wrong or if the idea just doesn't work, but I'd love to get this working. Thanks!

Dude you are the best!!! Thanks a lot !!!

@TheTechTrain

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, so glad you like it!

Hey Its Worked! The Code is working!

Amazing tutorial, thank you so much and thank you @Bruce Wan for the copy and paste! Just what I was looking for. Unfortunately it's not working for me and I dont know VBA so totally stuck! will have another look in the morning, can't figure out what i'm doing wrong. you are an amazing teacher, you're certainly in the right profession!

@sanjwij

Жыл бұрын

Hooray it's working, thank you so much! The time in underlined and I don't know how to undo that, but I'm so happy with it, will be using this for exams!

@TheTechTrain

Жыл бұрын

The time is probably underlined because you clicked on that, rather than the edge of the box it's in. Try clicking once inside the time so that you have a flashing vertical text cursor, then right click and select "Remove Hyperlink". I'm very glad it's working for you apart from that! 😊👍

Enjoyed the Tutorial very much. How would I make the time do a countdown? It's been awhile since I've used Visual Basic, so I'm relearning some of the commands. I have a project I'm working on now that my client wants a countdown timer to display while virtual meeting participants start joining the event and are waiting for it to start.

Thanks so much!!!! I appreciate it!

@TheTechTrain

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

I needed to make a timer for our toastmaster meetings - given that we are online now. Got the timer working was able to change screen color at different times. - all good. However when it came to terminate, I wanted to reset all the parameters - to no avail. Even on slide change the clock stops but I cant get it to change to --:-- Any thoughts?...

great content love this wish you have more subscribers

Great! Thanks!

thank you for the learning very helpful for those of us who don't understand about implementing ppt coding I want to ask ... what if this watch was applied singly to the LED TV? not on a computer monitor, does it have to be converted first to video? then stored on a USB Flash Disk? and immediately displayed (plug and play) Thank you very useful hopefully it becomes a blessing

Awesome! Thank you!

@TheTechTrain

4 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

Thank you so much

Got it to work great even managed to make it show date and time, however when I click to activate it leaves me with a blue spinning mouse icon ! any ideas ?

Thank you very much

Thank you for this. Can you please tell what to change in the code if I want to skip the start button?

Thanks so much. This is amazing, especially now that Microsoft have ANNOYINGLY removed flash support. One question: is there a way to change this to a 24 hour clock? UPDATE: managed to get it in 24-hour by using "Long Time" rather than hh:mm:ss in the format section. This uses you PC's time format

Great routine! Could it be possible to use an event like 'start presentation' or 'show slide x' to trigger the 'start clock' routine and a 'leave slide' event to trigger clock=false ???

Hi, Very nice tutorial, easy to follow. Worked perfectly first time. I am using the clock on one slide of a 2 slide presentation that I have running a loop continually at 30 second intervals. When I do this the clock stops when it gets back to the slide with the clock. Is there a setting I can change to fix this?

so hard but exactly what i was looking for

Would I be able to do code that rather than the clock on the computer that it would be count down?

Thanks for the code. Can you please share code to turn it on automatically with change of slide in slideshow mode. I want to use it show current time.Thanks

Hello thank you for the great video. is there a way of starting the clock automatically?

A great solution. Although you should also add a SUB for OnSlideShowTerminate otherwise VBA remains running. ANother problem is that both events OnSlideShow.... are deprecated and replaced by application events. And I get those not working....

how do i do this without clicking like automatically start on presentation

I am running a multi slide presentation on a loop. How do I have the clock current and running on each slide without me having to click on it each time?

Love this thank you :)

@TheTechTrain

3 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad!

@amandavankleeck2815

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheTechTrain I'm having issues- The code looks the same as yours, but when I put the action in, it turns the --:--:-- from a black font to a blue font, almost like it's a hyperlink? I have no idea what I did wrong.

Do you have video on how to do a break countdown clock?

Thank You

Ok i made a os with Macro and it worked!

Very helpful

This is an incredible tutorial. I would like the text box not to be clicked in the next slide even if it makes the computer slow. Is it possible to do so. I want the clock to look continuous. Clicking everytime is not a great idea. I hope you can help.

does this work with apple keynote as well?

Nice tutorial, I just wonder if is possible to create a count-down real-time clock in powerpoint. do you have any video for that? thanks

Thanks for this, Justin. Huge help! Question: Is "currentday" needed in the string?

Very useful! However when I add the action PowerPoint adds an underline to the text. Is there any way to get rid of the underline?

How do I display UTC in PowerPoint using this method? Is it possible?

Thank you very much. This is awesome educate. May I ask you one struggle I found. My live clock as I following you every step. But my clock cant play automatically. Please kindly suggest. Thank you

This is very useful now that Flash is dead. Would you be able to make a countdown timer for 1 hour via VBA code? that you can pause, resume and reset to an hour or reset to specific time? if possible?

you are awesome...terbaikk...

@TheTechTrain

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I'm very glad you liked it.

Awesome presentation. I need a countdown timer, about 5 minutes time lets say. Can you help and tell what changes are to be made in code?

Brilliant

Could you show how to put countdown timer throughout the PPt show

Comment for the algorithm, sales office managers will be a fan of yours ;)

@TheTechTrain

3 жыл бұрын

All part of the service! Glad it helped.

Great Video! Worked flawlessly. One question; what is currentday for at the top of the code. Also, I'd like to add the current date either at the top of the clock or on a different text box above the clock. Would that be possible by adding another line with a date or today function inside the Startclock code? Many thanks!!!

@TheTechTrain

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, you can do this. Just change the 'StartClock' subroutine to this: Sub StartClock() clock = True Do Until clock = False On Error Resume Next currenttime = Format((Now()), "h:mm:ss AM/PM") currentday = Weekday(Now(), vbMonday) Dim lngWeekDay As Long: lngWeekDay = currentday Dim strWeekDayName As String strWeekDayName = WeekdayName(Weekday:=lngWeekDay, Abbreviate:=False, FirstDayOfWeek:=vbMonday) currenttime = Mid(currenttime, 1, Len(currenttime) - 3) 'includes seconds 'currenttime = Mid(currenttime, 1, Len(currenttime) - 6) 'no seconds ActivePresentation.Slides(SlideShowWindows(1).View.CurrentShowPosition).Shapes("shpClock").TextFrame.TextRange.Text = strWeekDayName & vbCrLf & currenttime Pause Loop End Sub

I managed to make this work on my Mac and I'm very grateful for the help. What I really want to do, however, is have the clock on every slide in the presentation, automate the presentation and not have to "press the button" on individual slides. Could the VB be modified to auto start with the presentation and restart with each slide as it initializes?

how would modify your clock as a timer/ coundown? say if i was taking a 2 hour quiz - click start quiz timer starts.

Thank you very much for telling the things so nicely that a person like me who is unfamiliar with VBA could also run the clock in powerpoint. The problem I am facing is that whenever I change slide I need to click the clock textbox in order to run it. Else it stops on changing the slide. How to fix it.

Mr Tech Train I owe you my life

Excelente gracias :)

@TheTechTrain

4 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

@transportfan08

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheTechTrain I did every step and it did not work. When I start the slide and click on it nothing happens, outside the box it will change slides like normal so it is activated in some way

Hi. i did everything till 30:00 but the timer didn't appear.....Any idea why? Need this quite urgently....Thanks!

Hi, I followed your instructions but I only got a placeholder dashes and colons with a line underneath, where did I go wrong?