How to Create a Countdown Timer Effect in Kingsoft Presentation

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Under Insert tab

   In the text box, type the numbers from 9 down to
   0.
   
   Set font size as 40 and apply a desired font style.Hold Ctrl and drag the text box to make 3 additional copies in the same slide.
   
   Select all four text boxes and click Drawing Tool tab > Align > Align Top.
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   Step 2: click Text Box to insert a vertical text box to your slideshow.

   In the second text box, delete the numbers 9, 8, 7,
   6.
   
   In the fourth text box, delete all the numbers but
   0. , Then select the third and fourth text boxes and click Drawing Tool > Align > Align Left. , This Line Spacing option line-spacing-countdown can be found under Home tab > Paragraph group. , Then go to Drawing Tool tab > Rotate > Rotate Left to rotate all the text boxes 90 degrees left. , In the Custom Animation task pane on the right, click Add Effect.
   
   Choose Flash Once as Entrance effect. , Then select the top two text boxes and set Exit effect as Disappear. , For Text Box 22, choose After Previous for Start. ,,, Now the 60-second countdown timer is successfully added.
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   Step 3: Click the first text box on the left

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   Step 4: select all the numbers and replace them with 6.

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   Step 5: Select the 1st and 2nd text boxes

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   Step 6: click Drawing Tool > Align > Align Right.

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   Step 7: Select all the text boxes

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   Step 8: and set line spacing as 0.

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   Step 9: Select all the text boxes and adjust the height to make the numbers overlapped like the following.

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    Step 10: Select the four text boxes and right click to select Custom Animation.

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    Step 11: As the 60 seconds countdown is started from 6 and 0

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    Step 12: we need to drag the text box 17 and 14 to the top.

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    Step 13: Select Text Box 20 and set Start as When Click.

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    Step 14: Select Text Box 22 and right click to select Effect Options:In the pop-up dialog

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    Step 15: set the Effect and Timing as follows:

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    Step 16: Similar to above

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    Step 17: select Text Box 21

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    Step 18: and right click to bring up the Effect Options dialog box.In the pop-up dialog

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    Step 19: set the Effect and Timing as follows

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    Step 20: Press OK to finish.

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