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Dick W - 28 Feb 2007 20:28 GMT

I have created a series of Power Point shows that are narrated and sequenced.
The customer now wants to have not only a listing of each program and how
many slides are in the program, but the overall viewing duration of each
program, i.e. 25 slides, 12 min 15 sec running time.

Other than running each of the programs and timing them in real time, is
there any tool within Power Point that can automatically tell me what the
running time is for each program?

Thanks in advance.

Dick W

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John Wilson - 28 Feb 2007 22:34 GMT

You would need to use vba code. There are some examples out there but most
I've seen add up the transition times which is not a lot of use if you also
have animations. If you email me I'll send you a "work in progress" which
does a pretty fair job and accounts for animations, delays and transition
times. It will be on the website when its really tested.

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Shyam Pillai - 28 Feb 2007 23:46 GMT

If it is a narration based presentation then PowerPoint stores the time on
each slide in the slide transition. You just need to add it up. Otherwise
you would need to do some additional computing.

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