PowerPoint Animation | Create a Counter or Timer Effect | Step-by-Step Tutorial

Use the PowerPoint animation effects for number animation, among others. The numeric data can be shown through animation to create anticipation and interest and sustain the same. You
can animate numbers, using one or more of the many PowerPoint animation effects. Be sure, however, that your number animation supports the goals of your educational or business presentation.

It assists to know how to create animation in PowerPoint because you can present numeric data, and text, in an interesting and informative way.

A reason to animate number is to create a counter- or timer-like effect. In such an effect, numbers appears and disappears rapidly giving the illusion of a counter or timer. You can set the time, based on your needs, to control the speed of number change.

The timer effect through a PowerPoint animation would be ideal for many data presentation context. Here is just one example: Say, you want to present the data pertaining to the amount of calcium in 100 grams of finger millet. To create anticipation and interest,
you can present the numeric data through a counter- or timer-like effect.

All the numbers except the last number, in the number range, you use for a PowerPoint animation for creating a counter or timer will have a Disappear effect. The last number has to be visible, so it will not have this effect.

PowerPoint allows you to apply more than one effect, for example Appear and Disappear, to the same element on a slide. Such a feature, particularly in the context of number animation, is helpful to create the desired animation.

Take a look at this tutorial, which gives the steps for animating numbers for creating a counter- or timer-like effect.