How to Create an Agenda Slide to Organize a PowerPoint Presentation

An agenda slide is especially helpful with large presentations that contain multiple sections. You can divide your presentation into mini slide shows, then create an agenda slide to manage these multiple slide shows. The agenda slide in Microsoft PowerPoint 98 and PowerPoint 2000 contains hyperlinks to the various sections (slide shows). When you click on one of the hyperlinked topics, that slide show runs, then returns to the agenda slide so you can continue your presentation.

Difficulty: Moderately challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Microsoft Powerpoint

1. Create a custom slide show for each section of your presentation. (See "How to Create a Custom Slide Show in PowerPoint.")

2. Create a new bulleted list slide. (See "How to Create a Bulleted List Slide in PowerPoint.")

3. Type in the title of this slide - "Agenda," for example.

4. Type in the names of each of the custom slide shows in the bulleted list.

5. Select the first bulleted list item.

6. Go to the Slide Show menu and select Action Settings.

7. Click on the "Hyperlink to" radio button, then choose Custom Show.

8. Select the Show and Return checkbox in the Link to Custom Show window to ensure that when the custom show ends, it returns to the Agenda slide.

9. Click OK.