How to make "outline" frame in Beamer?

Question

In a presentation, people show regularly a "outline" frame containing the table of contents where some sections are grey (have been presented) and others are highlighted (will be presented right now).

Could anyone tell me how to realize it? Do we have to copy the same frame (table of contents) every time and change the color of some titles?

Thank you very much

Gonzalo Medina · Accepted Answer

You can do this using AtBeginSection:

documentclass{beamer}
usetheme{Boadilla}

AtBeginSection[]
{
  begin{frame}<beamer>
    frametitle{Outline for section thesection}
    tableofcontents[currentsection]
  end{frame}
}

begin{document}

section{Test section one}
begin{frame} Test end{frame}
begin{frame} Test end{frame}
section{Test section two}
begin{frame} Test end{frame}
begin{frame} Test end{frame}

end{document}

Here's the frame obtained just before the frames for section two:

Sinith · Answer

To get a slide with your table of contents, use
begin{frame}
frametitle{Outline}
  tableofcontents
end{frame}

or on more recent beamer versions
begin{frame}{Outline}
  tableofcontents
end{frame}

While this does not answer exactly the original question, it ends up being useful, as lot of people might visit this thread with this specific goal.

How to make "outline" frame in Beamer?

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