Clocks and timers for PowerPoint

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There's a timer for PowerPoint 2000 and above from Tushar Mehta

There's also a free AutoDateTime addin available at PowerPoint MVP Chirag Dalal's site

And a free Break Timer from PowerPoint MVP, Bill Foley

Or a way of doing the job with animation, courtesy of Geetesh Bajaj

A clever "one-slide" timer from Andrew May at Microsoft.

PowerPoint MVP John Wilson takes Andrew's method and automates it with a little VBA. The VBA is only used to create the duplicate animated shapes, and isn't required in the actual presentation, which will work even in the VBA-less Viewer.

With a bit of VBA, you can Simulate a countdown timer using Sleep API thanks to Shyam Pillai.

Countdown Clock for Windows isn't specifically for PowerPoint, but may answer some needs better than PPT-specific soutions. Inexpensive shareware (approx. US$20)

Ellen Finkelstein has another variation

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