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Raymond PENTIER Posted messages 58209 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   -
Hello,

I am in the process of preparing a wedding animation! This animation will be a reproduction of the TV game show Les Z'amours, more precisely, the final phase of the show where couples must have 7 correct answers. At that moment, we see yellow and red hearts appear as correct and incorrect answers occur. At the same time, there is a 45-second countdown.

To do this, I made a PowerPoint slide where I detached the yellow hearts, which I can make appear one after another with a click each. Then for the countdown, I couldn't find an animated GIF that was representative enough of the show, so I created 45 shapes where I wrote "45", "44", "43", etc., which I scroll one after another at 1-second intervals.

My problem now is that my 45 figures of my countdown are linked; so when the countdown is launched and I want to add a yellow heart at the same time, when I click, the heart is added but my countdown resets to zero. It’s a pity because the effect is perfect.

Could someone help me to allow the countdown to continue to run while clicks to add hearts occur?

If it’s not clear, I can send the file, it will probably be easier.

Thank you very much for your attention and help, because the wedding is in 7 days!!

Marc

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    la_schtroumpfette Posted messages 1 Status Member 3
     
    Hello,
    It is complicated to insert a countdown on an entire PowerPoint because it will reset at each slide change.

    Personally, I tried in vain to create a customized PowerPoint on the theme of love, and I finally turned to the site http://jeux-ppt.com. This site allows you to obtain customized PowerPoints (via an online form) on the theme of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" or the finale of the "z'amours".

    For the animation of a wedding, the best is to do the real game with 3 different couples (it practically requires nothing: a host, earplugs and boards) and to use the PowerPoint animation from the site mentioned above to do the finale (with the married couples, of course!).
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    1. Raymond PENTIER Posted messages 58209 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   17 480
       
      But that will be for the next wedding!
      Because the one it was about was celebrated a year, one month and three weeks ago...
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  2. Raymond PENTIER Posted messages 58209 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   17 480
     
    Yes, the best is to send the file (hoping there is no sound!).
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    That’s good, retirement! Especially in the Caribbean ... :-)
    ☻ Raymond ♂
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    1. Marcnico7661
       
      Thank you very much for your reply, Raymond! No, there is no sound! By the way, sorry, this is my first time using a forum! How can I send it to you? I don't have access to your email and I can't attach it to the message..
      Thank you for your attention
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    2. Raymond PENTIER Posted messages 58209 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   17 480
       
      But yes, you can attach it to the message:
      You create a link with https://www.cjoint.com/ and paste this link into your message.
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    3. Marcnico7661
       
      Here is the link! Thank you very much for your availability.
      http://cjoint.com/?3GeqyjfBKcV
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    4. christophe1987 Posted messages 2 Status Member
       
      hi,
      could you send me your file/folder? i want to do the same thing at a wedding. it would be very helpful. thank you
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  3. m@rina Posted messages 27465 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   11 562
     
    Good evening,

    The simplest thing, compared to what you’ve already done, is to trigger the heart animation via a trigger; so you don’t have a linear series of animations.

    For that, you draw a shape and certainly identify an existing one.

    For the heart animations, you choose the Triggers option, and in the dropdown list you select the pre-chosen shape that will serve to trigger the animation.

    Example:

    https://www.cjoint.com/?BGfa3WIeldf

    You start the slideshow and click on the rectangle to make the ellipse appear.

    m@rina
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    If you want to be helped effectively, make sure you’re on the right forum,... and specify the software you’re using and its version. We lack clairvoyants!
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    1. Marcnico7661
       
      Thank you Marina!

      This is exactly what I needed! It’s a real thorn removed, because I’ve been looking for a long time and since I’m not a pro at PPT, especially 2010, it’s SUPER!

      Have a good day, and thanks again.

      Marc
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  4. thebikounette
     
    Hello Marcnico7661,
    I’m working on an animation for my brother’s wedding in the game Zamours, I was looking for a countdown and I came across your post.
    Did you manage to do what you wanted? Did the game go well?
    Could you please send me your file?
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  6. christophe1987 Posted messages 2 Status Member
     
    Hi,

    Could you send me the file you used for the wedding?
    I’m going to do the same thing; it could give me some ideas.

    thanks
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