I wish PowerPoint had a way to put down estimated times for each slide and then sum up the values to tell you how long your presentation is going to run. I do know about the rehearse timings feature, but that is not what I am talking about since I have to run the whole slide show for the estimated time. I am doing an all day presentation at ApacheCon and need to match up my slides with specific breaks that are coordinated by the conference. My current solution is to keep a separate Excel spread sheet containing three columns:

1. Slide Number
2. Time expected for each slide
3. wall clock time, expressed as the function =TIME(HOUR($D1),MINUTE($D1),0) + TIME(0,$B2,0)

This approach, while working, is a bit clunky as I always have to go back and forth between PowerPoint and Excel.  So, if you know a better way of doing this, please let me know.

By the way, it is not too late to sign up for my all day Lucene training at ApacheCon Europe. If you want to get up to speed on Lucene in a hurry and are going to be in Amsterdam on May 1st (or want to be in Amsterdam on May 1st) then sign on up! The more the merrier.

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