I use the Madrid theme.
I would like to know how to remove the slide number and the total number of slides from ALL
slides in my presentation.
[Tex/LaTex] Removing slide numbers in the Madrid theme
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Related Solutions
You can set the headline beamer template to be empty locally, using \setbeamertemplate{headline}{}; if the frame has space reserved for a frame title, in addition to the modification mentioned before, you will have to move the frame title upwards for this frame, and this can be done by adding a convenient \vspace{<length>} to the frametitle template (also locally). A little example removing the navigation bar from the frame containing \maketitle and for the frames containing the ToCs generated with \AtBeginSection:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Copenhagen}
\AtBeginSection[] % Do nothing for \section*
{
\begingroup
\setbeamertemplate{headline}{}
\addtobeamertemplate{frametitle}{\vspace*{-0.9\baselineskip}}{}
\begin{frame}<beamer>
\frametitle{Summary}
\tableofcontents[currentsection]
\end{frame}
\endgroup
}
\title{The Title}
\author{The Author}
\institute{The Institute}
\begin{document}
{
\setbeamertemplate{headline}{}
\begin{frame}
\maketitle
\end{frame}
}
\section{Test Section One}
\begin{frame}{The frame title}
test one
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{The frame title}
test two
\end{frame}
\section{Test Section Two}
\begin{frame}{The frame title}
test three
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{The frame title}
test four
\end{frame}
\end{document}
The resulting document:
For an specific frame the same principle applies:
{
\setbeamertemplate{headline}{}
\addtobeamertemplate{frametitle}{\vspace*{-0.9\baselineskip}}{}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Summary}
Some text here
\end{frame}
}
A complete example, as required in a comment;
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Copenhagen}
\title{The Title}
\author{The Author}
\institute{The Institute}
\begin{document}
{
\setbeamertemplate{headline}{}
\begin{frame}
\maketitle
\end{frame}
}
{
\setbeamertemplate{headline}{}
\addtobeamertemplate{frametitle}{\vspace*{-0.9\baselineskip}}{}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Summary}
Some text here
\end{frame}
}
\section{Test Section One}
\begin{frame}{The frame title}
test one
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{The frame title}
test two
\end{frame}
\section{Test Section Two}
\begin{frame}{The frame title}
test three
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{The frame title}
test four
\end{frame}
\end{document}
bloodworks gives the simplest solution. However, if you want to retain exactly the formatting for the title page, but just not have the page number information, then you can redefine the footline template just for that frame as follows:
\documentclass {beamer}
\mode<beamer>{\usetheme{Madrid}}
\title[Test Title]{Test}
\begin{document}
\bgroup
\makeatletter
\setbeamertemplate{footline}
{
\leavevmode%
\hbox{%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{author in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{author in head/foot}\insertshortauthor\expandafter\beamer@ifempty\expandafter{\beamer@shortinstitute}{}{~~(\insertshortinstitute)}
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{title in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{title in head/foot}\insertshorttitle
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,right]{date in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{date in head/foot}\insertshortdate{}\hspace*{2em}
% \insertframenumber{} / \inserttotalframenumber\hspace*{2ex}
\hspace*{6ex}
\end{beamercolorbox}}%
\vskip0pt%
}
\makeatother
\begin{frame}
\titlepage
\end{frame}
\egroup
\setcounter{framenumber}{0}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{First test frame}
\begin{itemize}
\item Item 1
\item item 2
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame} More \end{frame}
\end{document}
The code makes a local group around the first frame via \bgroup / \endgroup and then contains a copy of the footline template from beamerouterthemeinfolines.sty with the insertion of "frame numuber / total framenumber" commented out and replaced by an appropriate amount of horisontal space.
Had not been for the " / " between these numbers you could just have set the commands \insertframenumber and \inserttotalframenumber to insert a single space each in this group.
After discussion with bloodworks, one may prefer to package the above up in to a macro \mytitleframe as below. Such a definition could then be moved to a private style file.
\documentclass{beamer}
\mode<beamer>{\usetheme{Madrid}}
\makeatletter
\def\mytitleframe{\bgroup
\setbeamertemplate{footline}
{
\leavevmode%
\hbox{%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{author in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{author in head/foot}\insertshortauthor\expandafter\beamer@ifempty\expandafter{\beamer@shortinstitute}{}{~~(\insertshortinstitute)}
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{title in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{title in head/foot}\insertshorttitle
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,right]{date in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{date in head/foot}\insertshortdate{}\hspace*{2em}
% \insertframenumber{} / \inserttotalframenumber\hspace*{2ex}
\hspace*{6ex}
\end{beamercolorbox}}%
\vskip0pt%
}
\maketitle
\egroup
\addtocounter{framenumber}{-1}
}
\makeatother
\title[Test Title]{Test}
\begin{document}
\mytitleframe
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{First test frame}
\begin{itemize}
\item Item 1
\item item 2
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame} More \end{frame}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Lockstep's answer shows you how to do this on a per-document basis. If you're likely to be using this a lot, here's how to make the change usable by other documents.
Here's a modified version of the
infolinesouter theme (which is loaded by Madrid) that removes the slide numbering.beamerouterthemenoslidenum.sty
Save this file as
beamerouterthemenoslidenum.stysomewhere where your document can find it. If this is for only one document, you could put it in the same folder as the document itself, but a more sensible place to put it would be in your localtexmffolder where it can be used by other documents too. If you do that it should ideally go in<path-to-your-local-texmf>/tex/latex/beamerThen in your document, you load the Madrid theme and then load your new outertheme: