 Hey folks, Rod here from Burn to Learn. Need ideas for showing dates in a countdown effect for your PowerPoint presentation? In this video we're going to show you how to do it. So let's create a blank session in PowerPoint. And in the top, where the home bar is, let's click on Layout and select the blank layout. Now go to Insert and click on Shapes. Select a rectangular shape and we're going to drag that shape all over our slide. Next, we change the color to black using the format bar, where the shape fill is, or shape styles. Then go back to Insert and let's click on Word Art. Type in the year, change the font color and the size of it. Next, we're going to add another rectangular shape as we previously did, but this time we're going to adjust it to our text and we change its color to white and remove the outline in shape outline to no outline. Now let's add the animation. First, we're going to change our text color to black and then type numbers from 0 to 9 by hitting the Enter key for each number. Let's duplicate these numbers three times, selecting and clicking Shift plus Control and dragging it. In the last column, we're going to add extra numbers. Let's go to Animations and apply Motion Path and drag up the numbers until number 8. Repeat the same steps with the other number lines, but let's add a delay of 5 seconds or so. And there you have it. Wonderful, right? Want more tips to rock your PowerPoint presentations? Like this video and subscribe to our channel.