Adding breaks to an agenda

You can insert one or more breaks between topics in the agenda and distribute the breaks evenly. The predefined break types mean that standard breaks can be inserted in the agenda quickly.

Breaks cannot be inserted in an empty agenda. You must create at least one topic on the agenda before inserting a break. Also, breaks cannot be inserted after other breaks except when using the auto-distribution feature (see below).

Click Add Break .

On the drop-down list, do one of the following:

Click Break, Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner to insert a break with that name after the currently selected topic in the agenda.

Ordinary breaks have a standard duration of 10 minutes while breakfast, lunch or dinner breaks have a standard duration of 30 minutes.

Click Auto-Distribute to open a dialog and insert a number of breaks with the same duration. See below.

(Optional) Edit the break times by selecting new break times on the Start Time and End Time drop-down lists.

Using the auto-distribution feature

Enter the number of breaks to be inserted, and select the duration of each break.

(Optional) Select the Distribute breaks evenly over the meeting check box to have breaks inserted evenly between existing agenda topics. If this check box is not selected, all the breaks are inserted after the currently selected topic on the agenda.

Click OK.

Breaks are always inserted at the root level of the agenda, no matter if the agenda has subtopics or not. For example, if you insert a break after subtopic 1.2.2 on the agenda, the break will be inserted as item number 2 on the agenda. For more information on indenting and outdenting topics, see "Structuring agenda topics".

Deleting breaks

Select the break to be deleted.

Click Delete Topic .