How to get rid of navigation bars in beamer

57
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How to remove the navigation bar of sections and subsections on the top of each slide generated from a beamer latex file?

By the way, in my preamble, I wrote: 

\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\usepackage{beamerthemeshadow}
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Did you try switching the two lines? – phimuemue
possible duplicate of Beamer latex question – Mark Elliot
@Mark : a duplicate of his own question! :) I guess he didn't get the answer he wanted then, and decided to try again... – Vivi
possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/3017030/… – Niall Murphy
Possible duplicate of Hiding the presentation controls in LaTeX beamer presentation – Werner

2 Answers

110
votes

I don't know whether this is what you want, but if you are talking about the navigation bar which has the symbols you can click on, this is the way to go:

\beamertemplatenavigationsymbolsempty

Funny, that is the second time you ask this....

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6
votes

The section navigation at the top of the frame is part of the headline. The easiest way to remove it is to change the headline template.

The line \setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{} is unrelated to the sections in the headline, this will remove the little symbols at the bottom right if the frame.

\documentclass{beamer}

\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\useoutertheme{shadow}

\setbeamertemplate{headline}{}

\begin{document}

\section{title}
\begin{frame}
\end{frame}

\end{document}