Presentation Point is a Belgian company who specializes in marketing software solutions that add functionality to PowerPoint. Presentation Point makes life of professional presenters easier and more productive.
The first product they marketed Datapoint for example shows real-time data on a information screen. Many new products have followed, some of them free like ShowPoint and PlanPoint.
With a little effort from you, the company offers this free add-in that does exactly what its name suggests, create a slide announcing a pause.
Update (november 2024):
Unfortunately the company has decided to only offer paid software on their website. So the following link has become redundant.
What are the possibilities of this new add-in?
- Automatically adjusted date and time.
- Automatically adjustable countdown timer.
- Weather and temperature indication.
- Adding quotes of the day
After installing you will see a new group on the Insert tab 'Breakpoint'.
Every click on a button inserts a text box on the slide. Like all PPT text boxes, you can format them yourself according to your own wishes.
This is how the options look for the Date and Clock buttons in this sample slide, you can choose the short/long date or the short/long time:
Attention! For the weather icon and the temperature you need to make sure that your location is shared in the Windows settings. The add-in uses the GPS coordinates for this. So if necessary go to Windows button - Settings - Privacy - Location if the button doesn't seem to work.
