Agenda – Overview
The Agenda Master turns a list of agenda items into a table of contents and optionally divider slides before each section — in a single step, as real, editable PowerPoint objects, not an image. If the order changes, you can refresh the agenda at any time without rebuilding everything.
The Agenda Master is a docked task pane that stays open at the edge. Use the tab bar at the top to switch between Presentation, Agenda items, Layout, Configuration and Preset. Open it via the Agenda button in the PPPTools ribbon.
Pro feature
The Agenda Master is available from the Pro license tier.
An agenda in three steps
- Enter items — on the Agenda items tab, type one item per line. Indenting turns an item into a sub-item.
- Choose the look — on the Layout tab, set which columns are visible, in which order, whether the table of contents appears as a table or a list, and whether divider slides are created.
- Generate — click ✨ Generate at the bottom. PPPTools creates the table of contents and the divider slides.
Adjustable any time
If you later move slides or change the order, ⟳ Refresh brings numbers, time slots and labels back in sync. More under Refresh & Import.
The five tabs
| Tab | Content |
|---|---|
| Presentation | Two areas: Global — for the whole deck (shared look: format template, ToC variant and accent color) and Agenda — this scope (header data such as title, presenter, project, date, start time, classification, status, audience — usable as placeholders). |
| Agenda items | The main work area: one item per line, with an expandable detail area. See Entering agenda items. |
| Layout | Visible columns and their order, divider fields, divider slides and the table-of-contents style. See Layout & Display. |
| Configuration | Collapsible groups: duration calculation, numbering (including continuation across scopes), section management, hyperlinks & navigation and title management. |
| Preset | Save whole agendas under a name and load them again, plus 🚀 Generate sample deck for an instantly populated starting point. See Presets & sample deck. |
Format templates live in their own designer
Designing and managing format templates is no longer a tab of the Agenda Master but a separate task pane, "PPPTools: Agenda Templates" (button 🎨 Agenda Templates in the ribbon group Tools). Inside the Agenda Master you only choose which template the deck uses (the Presentation tab). See Format templates.
Several agendas in one deck
A deck can contain several separate agendas — for example one per workshop day or per module. Each such agenda is a scope with its own items and header data; the shared look stays the same across all scopes. How to create, switch and continue numbering across scopes is described under Agenda scopes.
Concept: real objects, invisible markers
Everything the Agenda Master creates is an ordinary PowerPoint object — text frames, tables and shapes that you keep editing freely. So that PPPTools can find and refresh these objects later, it marks them with invisible markers (tags). You don't see these markers on the slide; they don't disturb printing or export.
The format template relies on the same markers: from a designed sample slide, PPPTools reads how the table of contents and dividers should look, and applies that look to every new agenda.
Header-data placeholders
In slide titles and text you can use placeholders such as [[TITLE]], [[PRESENTER]], [[PROJECT]], [[DATE]], [[STARTTIME]], [[CLASSIFICATION]], [[STATUS]] and [[AUDIENCE]]. On generation they are replaced with the values from the Presentation tab. For item-related titles there are additionally [[NR]] and [[THEMA]] — more under Title management.