Hi scrappy,
You may want to use the link below to post your question directly to the MS Powerpoint newsgroup and define there what you're hoping
to have as far as 'automatically' is concerned.
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I am doing a presentation on powerpoint 2003 and want to put a stopwach into
my slides to time an event that will be taking place on stage
can anyone advise of a download that i can use that will work automatically. >>
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Please let us know if this has helped,
Bob Buckland ?

MS Office System Products MVP
LINKS
A. Specific newsgroup/discussion group mentioned in this message:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.powerpoint
or via browser:
http://microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/?dg=microsoft.public.powerpoint
B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com