Refresh & Import
An agenda is rarely finished on the first generation — items get added, dropped or reordered. The Agenda Master keeps the table of contents and divider slides together via the invisible marks, so you can change things afterwards without rebuilding. Two buttons in the footer do this.
⟳ Refresh
⟳ Refresh takes the current order and numbering from the slides and re-labels the table of contents and dividers.
Typical case: in the slide sorter you swapped two divider slides or deleted one. A click on ⟳ Refresh, and the numbers, time slots and progress indicator on all dividers are correct again — without touching anything by hand.
What gets refreshed
Numbering, time slots, titles and progress. Your manual design changes to the slides are preserved — only the content managed (marked) by PPPTools is refreshed.
📥 Import from slides
📥 Import from slides loads an existing agenda of this presentation back into the pane. Useful when you reopen a presentation later and want to keep editing the agenda items in the pane without retyping them.
The Agenda Master recognises the previously generated slides by their marks and reconstructs the item list into the tabs.
How the marks work
On generation, PPPTools adds invisible marks (tags) to every agenda slide and the managed elements. They record which slide is which item and what role an element plays (table of contents, divider, decoration). It is exactly these marks that enable:
- finding the slides again on refresh,
- reading the items back into the pane,
- cloning the decorative elements faithfully.
The marks are invisible on the slide and affect neither printing nor export. If you delete a marked slide by hand, the corresponding item disappears on the next import.
Reordered? Refresh first
After reordering slides, always click ⟳ Refresh first before continuing — that keeps numbers and time slots consistent.