[Tex/LaTex] How to exclude certain slides from handout

beamer

I have a made a quite standard beamer (3.12) presentation. To make my long academic presentation a bit more interesting I have inserted some (really, only two or three) slides with "random" pictures like lolcats to keep it a bit humorous.

Now I want these slides to be a surprise, so they should not be visible on the handout. How can I prevent these slides to be included on my \documentclass[handout]{beamer} version?

Best Answer

You can add <handout:0> to the frame you want to hide, e.g.,

\documentclass[handout]{beamer}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
Hello.
\end{frame}

% this frame won't be included in the handout mode
\begin{frame}<handout:0>
I am a lolcat!
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Update: As Andrew suggested in the comment, you can use beamer:0 as well to hide it from the presentation. :) Besides, I agree with Andrew, please try to avoid lolcats at all costs, specially for academic purposes.

lolcat

Too risky.

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