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I notice that the \textit and \textsl behave much alike in Beamer. The following MWE produces the image:
\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{}
\textsl{Welcome to my world!}
\textit{Welcome to my world!}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
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How can these two can be made different, as they are in Article class:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\textsl{Welcome to my world!}
\textit{Welcome to my world!}
\end{document}
belowskip=0pt of caption package seems to do the job. Also, the table environment is adding whitespace between text and the table. You can use \captionof command instead.
\documentclass[xcolor=svgnames]{beamer}
\usetheme{Stockton}
\usepackage{epsfig} %for figures
\usepackage{xcolor} %for color
\definecolor{hughesblue}{rgb}{.9,.9,1} %A blue I like to use for highlighting, matches Hughes Hallet's book
%\logo{\includegraphics[height=2cm]{Seal_Cream.pdf}} % comment out this line if you do not have the pacific-seal file}
\title[Short Title \hspace{4em}\insertframenumber/
\inserttotalframenumber]{~ \\ Long Title: A Sample Using \\ Stockton Beamer Theme \\~}
\author[short author name or speaker]{Sarah Merz, The University of the Pacific }
\date{January, 2010}
\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup{skip=0pt,belowskip=0pt}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\maketitle
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{INPUT SELECTION}
\begin{itemize}
\item The load is influenced by many factors.:
\end{itemize}
%\begin{table}[!htbp]
\captionof{table}{Factors that may influence electricity demand\label{table:1}}
%\captionof{table}{Factors that may influence electricity demand}
%\label{table:1}
\resizebox{\linewidth}{!}{%
\begin{tabular}{|l|p{15cm}|}\hline
Calendar data & hour of the day, day of the week, holidays, 'bridge days', daylight saving time, school holidays\\\hline
Meteorological data & temperature, humidity, cloud cover, luminosity, earth's position in the eclipse, sun's altitude, wind speed, solar radiation, climate change\\\hline
Economic data & GDP, per capita GDP, consumer price index, average salary earnings, production plans of companies, electricity price, industrial expansion\\\hline
Demographic data & number of households, population growth, local area development\\\hline
\end{tabular}}
%\end{table}
\begin{itemize}
\item The importance of horizon:
\begin{itemize}
\item For very short-term forecast (up to 6 hours) $\longrightarrow$ inputs based on past load values
\end{itemize}
\item Engineering judgment or human experience as well as some statistical/graphical analysis
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
You do need to tell beamer what you want to appear in each frame of the handout version. You can use \onslide specifications to do this so that you do not need to modify the existing overlay specifications at all. (I'm not sure this is what you want - probably not.)
The following code modifies your MWE so that, in presentation mode, there would actually be 10 slides within the frame. These are then placed on slides 1 or 2 of the handout. This is a waste of code: if you only want to show slide 5 and slide 10, you do not need two \againframe but only one. But, anyway, with the two:
\documentclass[handout]{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}<1-| handout:0>[label=foo]{My only frame}
\begin{enumerate}[<+->]% or whatever you like for presentation mode
\onslide<1-| handout:1-2>
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\onslide<1-| handout:2>
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\end{enumerate}
\end{frame}
\againframe<0| handout:1>{foo}
\againframe<0| handout:2>{foo}
\end{document}
More efficiently with only one repeat:
\documentclass[handout]{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}<1-| handout:1>[label=foo]{My only frame}
\begin{enumerate}[<+->]% or whatever you like for presentation mode
\onslide<1-| handout:1-2>
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\onslide<1-| handout:2>
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\end{enumerate}
\end{frame}
\againframe<0| handout:2>{foo}
\end{document}
I'm not sure how this could apply to article mode since then there are no frames or slides.
Best Answer
If choosing another
fontthemeyou will see, that beamer makes a difference betweentextslandtextit.