[texhax] tip: beamer page X of Y in footer

Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCHM) rjf2 at cdc.gov
Thu Aug 31 17:35:03 CEST 2006


this statements turns off the default beamer footer 

\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}%disables usefoottemplate

if you want to have page -- or slide -- X of Y
in the footer
with this theme:
\usepackage{beamerthemesplit}% contents list in header not
usefoottemplate

use the short author statement

\author[R.J. Fehd \thepage\ of \pageref{lastPage}]
       {Ronald J. Fehd,
        Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
        Atlanta, GA, USA}%

with this label in your last slide:

\label{lastPage}\end{frame}
\end{document}\endinput

Ron Fehd  the SAS macro maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2 at cdc dot gov
          and aspiring beamer maven



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