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How to center the tikzpicture? As this now, it seems to start from the left margin.

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Here is my code:

\documentclass{beamer}

% choose theme (warning, to use the UniBern theme you need to copy the files beamerthemeUniBern.sty and ublogo.pdf in the same directory) \usetheme{theme1}

% packages

\usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{hyperref} % allows clickable urls \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{listings} % show code \usepackage{dsfont} % show code \usepackage{fontawesome} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{snakes} \usetikzlibrary{positioning} \newlength\yearposx \makeatletter \def\blfootnote{\gdef@thefnmark{}@footnotetext} \makeatother

\definecolor{lightgrey}{RGB}{245,245,245}

% slide numbering \setbeamertemplate{sidebar right}{} \setbeamertemplate{footline}{% \hfill\usebeamertemplate***{navigation symbols} \hspace{1cm}\insertframenumber{}/\inserttotalframenumber}

% define title page

% begin document \begin{document}

\frame{ \frametitle{a} %till 2000

\scalebox{0.7}{ \begin{tikzpicture}[ node distance=1.5 cm and 0.8cm, ar/.style={->,>=latex,thick}, mynode/.style={ draw, line width=1pt, text width=3cm, minimum height= 1 cm, align=center } ]

\node[mynode,text width=3cm, fill=lightgrey] (c1) at (0,0) {Diagnosed}; \node[mynode,text width=3.5cm, fill=lightgrey, below=1cm of c1] (c2) {blablabla \[1cm]$ $}; \node[mynode,text width=3.5cm, fill=lightgrey, below=1cm of c2] (c3) {blablabla \[1cm]$ $};

\node[align=center,text width=3cm,left=2cm of c2] (c2_3) {First-line \ blbla}; \node[align=center,text width=3cm,left=2cm of c3] (c3_3) {Second-line \ blbla}; \node[draw,align=center,text width=18cm,below left =1cm and -11cm of c3] (text1) {\textbf{aaa}: Very long long long text 1 \hspace{0.5cm} \textbf{aaa}: Very long long long text 2\hspace{0.5cm} \textbf{aaa}: Very long long long text 3};

\draw[->,thick] (c1) -- (c2); \draw[->,thick] (c2) -- (c3); \end{tikzpicture}} } \end{document}

Here is the theme:

\RequirePackage{calc}
\RequirePackage{etoolbox}

\mode<presentation>

\newdimen\beamer@ubBorderHeight \newdimen\beamer@ubTitleHeight \newdimen\beamer@ubFooterHeight \newdimen\beamer@ubOverlap

\beamer@ubOverlap=0.2pt \beamer@ubBorderHeight=0.015\paperheight \beamer@ubTitleHeight=0.125\paperheight \beamer@ubFooterHeight=0.032\paperheight

\definecolor{ubRed}{HTML}{E6002E} \definecolor{ubGrey}{RGB}{255,255,255}

\ProcessOptionsBeamer

\setbeamercolor{normal text}{fg=black} \setbeamercolor{alerted text}{fg=ubRed} \setbeamercolor{itemize item}{fg=ubRed} \setbeamercolor{itemize subitem}{fg=ubRed} \setbeamercolor{example text}{fg=black} \setbeamercolor{structure}{fg=black} \setbeamercolor{date in title page}{fg=black}

% set fonts \RequirePackage[scaled]{helvet} \renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault}

\usefonttheme[onlymath]{serif} \RequirePackage{iftex} \ifPDFTeX \RequirePackage[T1]{fontenc} \RequirePackage[utf8]{inputenc} \fi

\setbeamerfont{structure}{series=\bfseries} \setbeamerfont{title}{size={18}{22}} \setbeamercolor{title}{bg=ubRed} \setbeamerfont{subtitle}{size={18}{22}} \setbeamerfont{author}{size={10}{12},series=\bfseries} \setbeamerfont{institute}{size={10}{12}} \setbeamerfont{frametitle}{size={18}{22}} \setbeamercolor{frametitle}{fg=ubRed} \setbeamerfont{framesubtitle}{size={18}{22}} \setbeamercolor{framesubtitle}{fg=black} \setbeamerfont{date}{size={8}{10}} \setbeamerfont{headline}{size={8}{10}} \beamertemplatenavigationsymbolsempty

\defbeamertemplate{title page}{uni bern}{% % list trick from https://texfaq.org/FAQ-chngmargonfly \begin{list}{}{ \setlength{\listparindent}{\parindent}% \setlength{\itemindent}{\parindent}% \setlength{\parsep}{\parskip}% \setlength{\leftmargin}{0pt}% \setlength{\rightmargin}{0pt}} \item[] \vspace{\stretch{2}} {\usebeamerfont{title}\color{ubRed}\inserttitle\par} % no idea why usebeamercolor{title} does not work here {\usebeamerfont{subtitle}\insertsubtitle\par} \vspace{\stretch{1}} {\usebeamerfont{author}\insertauthor\par} {\usebeamerfont{date}\insertdate\par} \vspace*{\stretch{2}} \end{list} % \end{minipage} }

\defbeamertemplate*{background canvas}{uni bern}{% \begin{minipage}[t]{\paperwidth+10pt} \setlength{\baselineskip}{0pt} \setlength{\lineskip}{-\beamer@ubOverlap} \setlength{\parskip}{0pt} \ifnumgreater{\c@framenumber}{1}{}{}

\ifnumgreater{\c@framenumber}{2}{ \ifdefempty{\insertframesubtitle}{ \rule{0pt}{6ex+\beamer@ubTitleHeight}\ \color{ubGrey}\rule{\paperwidth}{\paperheight-\beamer@ubTitleHeight-\beamer@ubFooterHeight-6ex} }{ \rule{0pt}{6ex+2\beamer@ubTitleHeight}\
\color{ubGrey}\rule{\paperwidth}{\paperheight-2\beamer@ubTitleHeight-\beamer@ubFooterHeight-6ex}
} }{} \end{minipage} }

\defbeamertemplate*{headline}{uni bern}{% \ifnumgreater{\c@framenumber}{2}{ \vspace{3.5ex} \hspace{4.5ex}\inserttitle }{} }

\defbeamertemplate{frametitle}{uni bern}{ \begin{minipage}[b]{\textwidth} \vspace{0.5ex} \raggedright \vspace{3.5ex} {\insertframetitle\par} {\usebeamerfont{framesubtitle}\usebeamercolor{framesubtitle}\insertframesubtitle} \end{minipage} }

% set bullets

\defbeamertemplate{itemize item}{uni bern}{$\bullet$} \defbeamertemplate{itemize subitem}{uni bern}{$\bullet$} \setbeamersize{text margin left=4ex} \setbeamersize{text margin right=4ex}

\mode<all>

David Carlisle
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If you want to center something that exceeds the \textwidth (and therefore will not be centered but left-aligned), it usually helps to pretend that the something has width zero.

\begin{center}
\makebox[0pt]{%
   something%
}
\end{center}

Make sure that there are no spurious spaces, since these would bring the something out of center.

enter image description here

\documentclass{beamer}

% choose theme (warning, to use the UniBern theme you need to copy the files beamerthemeUniBern.sty and ublogo.pdf in the same directory) \usetheme{theme1}

% packages

\usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{hyperref} % allows clickable urls \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{listings} % show code \usepackage{dsfont} % show code \usepackage{fontawesome} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{snakes} \usetikzlibrary{positioning} \newlength\yearposx \makeatletter \def\blfootnote{\gdef@thefnmark{}@footnotetext} \makeatother

\definecolor{lightgrey}{RGB}{245,245,245}

% slide numbering \setbeamertemplate{sidebar right}{} \setbeamertemplate{footline}{% \hfill\usebeamertemplate***{navigation symbols} \hspace{1cm}\insertframenumber{}/\inserttotalframenumber}

% define title page

% begin document \begin{document}

\frame{ \frametitle{a} %till 2000

\begin{center}
  \makebox[0pt]{%

\scalebox{0.7}{% \begin{tikzpicture}[ node distance=1.5 cm and 0.8cm, ar/.style={->,>=latex,thick}, mynode/.style={ draw, line width=1pt, text width=3cm, minimum height= 1 cm, align=center } ]

\node[mynode,text width=3cm, fill=lightgrey] (c1) at (0,0) {Diagnosed}; \node[mynode,text width=3.5cm, fill=lightgrey, below=1cm of c1] (c2) {blablabla \[1cm]$ $}; \node[mynode,text width=3.5cm, fill=lightgrey, below=1cm of c2] (c3) {blablabla \[1cm]$ $};

\node[align=center,text width=3cm,left=2cm of c2] (c2_3) {First-line \ blbla}; \node[align=center,text width=3cm,left=2cm of c3] (c3_3) {Second-line \ blbla}; \node[draw,align=center,text width=18cm,below left =1cm and -11cm of c3] (text1) {\textbf{aaa}: Very long long long text 1 \hspace{0.5cm} \textbf{aaa}: Very long long long text 2\hspace{0.5cm} \textbf{aaa}: Very long long long text 3};

\draw[->,thick] (c1) -- (c2); \draw[->,thick] (c2) -- (c3); \end{tikzpicture}}} \end{center} } \end{document}

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