Creating an agenda slide in Powerpoint? Don't do it by hand!
If you've prepared a Powerpoint presentation that's long enough to warrant your wanting to create an agenda or "table of contents" type of slide, you may be tempted to create it by hand, but don't!
If you use Powerpoint's "slide sorter" interface (View>Slide Sorter), you can pick selected slides (using control-click) and then choose the "summary slide" button on the toolbar. It will then create a slide containing the titles of the selected slides as bullets. Nifty!
And this isn't just for creating the front agenda slide, but you could use it to create intermediate agenda slides for sections within the presentation, too.
Of course, if you create the agenda or section heading slide first, then you have the opposite problem: you often find yourself creating subsequent slides using the agenda/section heading bullets as titles of the new slides. Some presentation tool in my past life (perhaps Harvard Graphics, or FreeLance, or PC Presenter) would do just that. Now, if only Powerpoint had that feature. Or perhaps it does and I don't know...
BTW, I learned of this tip at a page with lots of others:
http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointtips.htm
There's a MS web site page on this particular tip, as well:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP051928531033.aspx