How to make a PowerPoint animation play again?

Question

Presentations

Hello
There is a PowerPoint presentation, it has a countdown timer that starts by pressing it (you clicked on it and it went) and if it already reaches the end, then every time you go to that slide the last digit of the timer "0" is written there.
How to make that when you enter that slide, the timer is updated?

Answer 1

Animated counters in PP are made manually, it is described here how .
Simply put - in your case there are several digits in separate objects, with animation that hides them in turn after clicking on the largest digit of the timer. To "reset" the timer, you need to do one of two things:
- if you need to reset the timer immediately after reaching zero automatically - add for all counter digits the effect of appearing after the disappearance of the last digit before zero.
- if you need to reset the timer manually, for example, by clicking on the timer, then you need to hang the appearance animation for all hidden numbers on the text box with zero.
An example of the second solution is in the screenshot below. For clarity, the counter is "disassembled" vertically.
The Animation Pane shows that after clicking on the textbox with the number "3", "3", "2", "1" are hidden in sequence. Zero remains. Also, textboxes "3", "2", "1" have the "appearance" effect, start the appearance - by clicking on the textbox with the number "0", as seen in the Appear dialog in the screenshot.