[Tex/LaTex] How to remove author and co-authors from a navigation bar in beamer presentation

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There are 6 co-authors of my presentation. How can I remove all their names from the navigation bar and leave them on the title page?
Thanks for your help

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Probably specifying the optional short author list will do the trick:

\author[First Author]{First Author \and Second Author \and Third Author}

Edit: As discussed below, the suggested solution works for my setup and I would guess that it does so for most setups. More specifically, it works if the theme (or you yourself manually) uses \insertshortauthor to display the author list in the navigation bar (header, footer, etc.). The same goes for \insertshorttitle and \insertshortdate..

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Warsaw theme loads shadow outer theme which loads split outer theme. You can use compress option to flat navigation top bar. This way all sections and subsections will appear in a horizontal list instead of vertical.

\documentclass[compress]{beamer}

it's all you need.

If you don't want any headline would be better to use some other theme like Pittsburg, Rochester or Madrid, but you can still use Warsaw and suppress headline with

\setbeamertemplate{headline}{}

[Tex/LaTex] Separate Beamer navigation bar for some portions of presentation

Yes, you can use \part and redefine \beamer@part as implemented in the file beamerbasesection.sty to suppress the part bookmarks; the example below shows the necessary modification (basically commenting out one line):

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Warsaw}

\makeatletter
\long\def\beamer@part[#1]#2{%
  \beamer@savemode%
  \mode<all>%
  \ifbeamer@inlecture%
    \refstepcounter{part}%
    \def\beamer@partname{#2}%
    \def\beamer@partnameshort{#1}%
    \addtocontents{nav}{\protect\headcommand{\protect\partentry{#2}{\the\c@part}}}%
    \xdef\partlink{{Navigation\the\c@page}{\noexpand\beamer@partname}}%
    \xdef\partlinkshort{{Navigation\the\c@page}{\noexpand\beamer@partnameshort}}%
    \beamer@tempcount=\c@page\advance\beamer@tempcount by -1%
    \addtocontents{nav}{\protect\headcommand{%
        \protect\beamer@partpages{\the\beamer@partstartpage}{\the\beamer@tempcount}}}%
    \addtocontents{nav}{\protect\headcommand{%
        \protect\beamer@sectionpages{\the\beamer@sectionstartpage}{\the\beamer@tempcount}}}%
    \addtocontents{nav}{\protect\headcommand{%
        \protect\beamer@subsectionpages{\the\beamer@subsectionstartpage}{\the\beamer@tempcount}}}%
    \beamer@partstartpage=\c@page%
    \beamer@sectionstartpage=\c@page%
    \beamer@subsectionstartpage=\c@page%
    \setcounter{subsection}{0}%
    \def\insertsection{}%
    \def\insertsubsection{}%
    \def\insertsubsubsection{}%
    \def\insertsectionhead{}%
    \def\insertsubsectionhead{}%
    \def\insertsubsubsectionhead{}%
    \def\lastsubsection{}%
    \def\insertpart{\expandafter\hyperlink\partlink}%
    %\Hy@writebookmark{\the\c@section}{#1}{Outline\the\c@part}{1}{toc}%
    \hyper@anchorstart{Outline\the\c@part}\hyper@anchorend%
    \beamer@atbeginpart%
  \fi%
  \beamer@resumemode}%
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\part{Introduction}
\section{Outline}
\begin{frame}
test
\end{frame}

\part{Main}
\section{Models}
\begin{frame}
test
\end{frame}

\section{Power of the model}
\begin{frame}
test
\end{frame}

\section{Limitations of the model}
\begin{frame}
test
\end{frame}

\part{Conclussion}
\section{Appendix}
\begin{frame}
test
\end{frame}

\end{document}

The above modification can be made in a more concise way using the xpatch package to patch \beamer@part:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Warsaw}
\usepackage{xpatch}

\makeatletter
\xpatchcmd{\beamer@part}{\Hy@writebookmark{\the\c@section}{#1}{Outline\the\c@part}{1}{toc}}{}{}{}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\part{Introduction}
\section{Outline}
\begin{frame}
test
\end{frame}

\part{Main}
\section{Models}
\begin{frame}
test
\end{frame}

\section{Power of the model}
\begin{frame}
test
\end{frame}

\section{Limitations of the model}
\begin{frame}
test
\end{frame}

\part{Conclussion}
\section{Appendix}
\begin{frame}
test
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Here are some images for the first frame of each part:

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and the bookmarks as shown by Adobe Reader; as you can see, there are no part bookmarks:

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