How to add url to footer in Beamer

Question

I'm new to LaTeX and am having trouble adding a url to the footer.

I currently have this:

\documentclass[]{beamer}

\usepackage{beamerthemebars} 

\title{Title}
\author{Author}
\institute{Institute}
\date{\today}   

\begin{document}

So far all of that information appear correctly on each page, but I wanted to make the Institute a link to a url, any ideas?

Thanks Marco but I tried that it comes up with the error: ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}. — Jack, Apr 20 '13 at 09:09

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 20 '13 at 09:12

5

Marcos example:

\documentclass[]{beamer}
\usepackage{beamerthemebars} 

\title{Title}
\author{Author}
\institute{\href{http://www.mit.edu}{Institute}}
\date{\today}   

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}

Alternative: \institute{Institute \url{http://www.mit.edu}}

answered Apr 20 '13 at 09:12

Awesome that worked like a charm, thanks for your help!! – Jack Apr 20 '13 at 09:20

Claudio Fiandrino · Answer 2 · 2013-05-28T09:04:03.170

I'd do something different with respect to Herbert's answer:

in the title page I'd insert both name and link;
in the footer I'd insert just the link.

This is perfectly doable thanks to the syntax:

\institute[things in footer line]{things in title page}

Thus:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{lmodern} % used to remove font warnings as per:
% http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/58087/13304
\usepackage{beamerthemebars} 

\title{Title}
\author{Author}
\institute[\href{http://tex.stackexchange.com/}{TeX.SX}]{TeX.SX \\ \href{http://tex.stackexchange.com/}{http://tex.stackexchange.com/}}
\date{\today}   

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\titlepage
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{Title}
text
\end{frame}

\end{document}

The result:

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How to add url to footer in Beamer

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