[Tex/LaTex] Beamer navigation bar dresden theme

beamernavigation

I am using the dresden theme for a presentation. However, I have too many subsection in a section part of the presentation. The slides I have in a subsection are represented by circles that will highlight when I'm on the current slide. But they're too many and it makes the navigation bar too long. Is there a way to shorten it? Like having to columns of circles or only displaying the current subsection?
I have a row of circles for each slides in each subsection. But 7 subsection makes the rows of circles too long.

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Dresden}
\usecolortheme[overlystylish]{albatross}
\setbeamertemplate{caption}[numbered]


\begin{document}

\section{Section 1}
\subsection{Subsection 1}

\begin{frame}
\end{frame}

\subsection{Subsection 2}

\begin{frame}
\end{frame}

\subsection{Subsection 3}
\begin{frame}
\end{frame}

\subsection{Subsection 4}
\begin{frame}
\end{frame}

\subsection{Subsection 5}
\begin{frame}
\end{frame}

\subsection{Subsection 6}
\begin{frame}
\end{frame}

\subsection{Subsection 7}
\begin{frame}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Thank you very much.

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Best Answer

Add the compress option:

\documentclass[compress]{beamer}

cf. here

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You don't need to declare a subsection, raising it's counter by \setcounter{subsection}{1} or \stepcounter{subsection} would be sufficient.

But as the section counter resets the subsection counter, I would do it in the preamble together with removing it from the reset:

\usepackage{remreset}% tiny package containing just the \@removefromreset command
\makeatletter
\@removefromreset{subsection}{section}
\makeatother
\setcounter{subsection}{1}

This way that counter will stay at the value 1 and the circles are shown without any \subsection.

A minimal working example demonstrating the solution:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Frankfurt}
\usepackage{remreset}
\makeatletter
\@removefromreset{subsection}{section}
\makeatother
\setcounter{subsection}{1}
\begin{document}
\section{Test}
\frame{one}
\frame{two}
\frame{three}
\end{document}

Output:

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If you uncomment the command \setcounter{subsection}{1} and compile twice, you could see the original problem of missing circles.

[Tex/LaTex] Beamer: Hide Backup Slides from Navigation Panel

Make an appendix. Example (also handles putting appendix frames under a different counter):

\documentclass{beamer}
% http://www-ljk.imag.fr/membres/Jerome.Lelong/latex/appendixnumberbeamer.sty
% Reference: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2541/beamer-frame-numbering-in-appendix
\usepackage{appendixnumberbeamer}
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% http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2173
\expandafter\def\expandafter\insertshorttitle\expandafter{%
  \insertshorttitle\hfill\insertframenumber\,/\,\inserttotalframenumber}

\newcommand{\makesection}{%
  \begin{frame}This is a slide.\end{frame}
  \subsection{First Subsection}
  \begin{frame}This is a slide.\end{frame}
  \subsection{Second Subsection}
  \begin{frame}This is a slide.\end{frame}
}
\usetheme{Berlin}
\author{The Author}
\title{The Title}
\date{2011/06/21}
\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\titlepage
\end{frame}

\section{First Section} \makesection

\section{Second Section} \makesection

\section{Third Section} \makesection

\appendix
\section{Additional Material} \makesection

\end{document}

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