Beamer is a powerful and flexible LaTeX class to create great looking presentations. This article outlines the basis steps to making a Beamer slideshow: creating the title page, adding a logo, highlighting important points, making a table of contents and adding effects to the slideshow. Open this beamer document in Overleaf. After compilation, a two-page PDF file will be produced. The first page is the titlepage, and the second one contains sample content.
This page may contain information about the author, institution, event, logo, and so on. See the title page section for a more complete example. It is worth noting that in beamer the basic container is a frame.
A frame is not exactly equivalent to a slide, one frame may contain more than one slides. For example, a frame with several bullet points can be set up to produce a new slide to reveal each consecutive bullet point. The Beamer class offers some useful features to bring your presentation to life and make it more attractive.
The most important ones are listed below. There are some more options for the title page than the ones presented in the introduction. The next example is a complete one, most of the commands are optional. Open an example of the beamer package in Overleaf. The distribution of each element in the title page depends on the theme, see the Themes subsection for more information.
Here is a description of each command:. Usually when you have a long presentation, it's convenient to divide it into sections or even subsections. In this case, you can add a table of contents at the beginning of the document. Here is an example:. As you see, is simple. It's also possible to put the table of contents at the beginning of each section and highlight the title of the current section. Just add the code below to the preamble of your L a T e X document:. It was mentioned that a frame is not equivalent to a slide , and the next example will illustrate why, by adding some effects to the slideshow.
