How to insert a clock into PowerPoint

To increase the richness of content on PowerPoint slides, there are also details available on this tool that you can insert into content, for slide shows. To insert a clock on a PowerPoint slide, users will use the built-in clock with a variety of formats, displaying different times or downloading clocks at the external website. The clock inserted on the slide always automatically updates the time when you slide. The following article will show you how to insert a clock into a PowerPoint slide.

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Instructions on how to insert a clock on PowerPoint

Step 1:

Click on Insert and then click on the Date & Time icon to insert the clock into the slide.

Step 2:

Display the Header and Footer interface, select the Date and time item and then click on Update automatically to update the time automatically when inserting the slide show. Clicking on the drop-down arrow icon will display the format, displaying the time and date and moment for you to choose to insert the slide content.

After selecting the type of clock you want to use, click Apply to All to insert the clock on all existing slides on PowerPoint, or Apply to insert into the current slide only.

Step 3:

As a result you will see the time inserted in the slide as shown below.

If you insert a time on a separate slide, you can adjust the font, font color, font size if desired.

Step 4:

The provided clock on PowerPoint is just the basic, digital clock. If the user wants to add other clock styles to the slide, go to the page below to download the clock image for the slide. There are many different types of watches on the page for us to choose the type of watch we want to use.

1. http://flash-clocks.com/flash-clocks-gallery.html

If the page interface shown below, then you need to run Flash on Chrome for the site.

Switch to Allow mode to run Flash on this site.

Step 5:

Click on a clock type and then click on the HTML Tag Code to get the clock code.

Step 6:

Display HTML embed code. Here users copy the link from http to swf and paste it into the browser address bar and press Enter.

Then you need to save the clock file as a flash file to your computer.

Step 7:

To insert the downloaded clock image into the slide just drag the slide interface on PowerPoint. Next adjust the size and position of the clock display on the slide. The clock frame will be black as shown below.

When we show a slide, the clock image is displayed as below. Time automatically updates according to the time set on the computer.

The type of clock available for PowerPoint insertion is very simple, so users can download additional models of external flash clocks and insert them into the slide. With the insert clock image will not display when you slide to normal mode but must show the new slide show.

I wish you all success!