odometer or counter in presentation

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Peter

We would like to add something that would look like a car odometer to our Powerpoint presentation. We would like it to count up at about 2000 "miles" per second. Anybody know of something that might be able to do this for us?
 
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Ute Simon

Peter said:
We would like to add something that would look like a car odometer to our
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Powerpoint presentation. We would like it to count up at about 2000 "miles"
per second. Anybody know of something that might be able to do this for us?

Hi Peter,

which PowerPoint version are you using? For PPT 2002/2003 I could think of
some animation tricks to fake an odometer. But 2000 "miles" per second is
quite fast, I'm not sure whether you'll be able to accomplish this speed.

And what's the maximum you want it to count up to? Do you want it to count
on one slide or count across several slides (which would be much more
difficult to achieve)?

Please holler back with some more details.

Kind regards,
Ute
 
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Peter

Thank you Ute
We are using Powerpoint 2000. We would like this odometer to be part of each slide of our presentation, just running continuously off in the corner of each slide. It would have to reach about 2,000,000 miles. Perhaps if an odometer looking thing is too difficult, how about a counter that would update every few seconds?
 
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Ute Simon

Peter said:
We are using Powerpoint 2000. We would like this odometer to be part of
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each slide of our presentation, just running continuously off in the corner
of each slide. It would have to reach about 2,000,000 miles. Perhaps if an
odometer looking thing is too difficult, how about a counter that would
update every few seconds?

Hi Peter,

a question posted frequently to this newsgroup regards "countdown timers" -
IMHO your question is a reverse version of that. I'd recommend a Google
groups search for this. Maybe you find something you can modify. The first
address which comes to my mind ist http://www.tushar-mehta.com/, who offers
a slide show timer for PowerPoint. But I have never used such thing myself
and cannot say anything detailed about it.

Is your "odometer" going to be dependant on time or on number of slides? If
the latter, you could place a odometer picture on your slides faking a "fast
movement" by animation and displaying "real" numbers from time to time.

Kind regards,
Ute
 
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