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I like using the Beamer Goettingen theme as it has a nice sidebar. I would like to remove this from occasional slides, so the text can go all the way across. However, while the [plain] option removes the side bar, the text still wraps as if the side bar were there (minimal worked example below). How do I get text to wrap across slide?

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Goettingen}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usecolortheme{seahorse}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[plain]{title}

\lipsum

\end{frame}

\end{document}
Nick Riches
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  • You can use geometry package for that. The idea is to use a \newgeometry before \begin{frame} and use \restoregeometry right after \end{frame}. Take a look at geometry docs. – cacamailg May 09 '13 at 12:01

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\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Goettingen}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usecolortheme{seahorse}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}{title}

\lipsum

\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[plain]{title}
\advance\textwidth2cm
\hsize\textwidth
\columnwidth\textwidth
\lipsum

\end{frame}

\end{document}
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David Carlisle
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  • Could you briefly explain the three specific lines, advance, hsize and column width? Thanks!! – Matifou Apr 13 '18 at 06:51
  • @Matifou it is better to ask a question rather than comment on 5 year old answers but iin latex those lines should have been \addtolength\textwidth{2cm} \setlength\hsize{\textwidth} \setlength\columnwidth{\textwidth} it just makes all three of those lengths be 2cm more than they were – David Carlisle Apr 13 '18 at 07:44
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Based on David's answer, you can do the following. I also suggest you to remove the navigation symbols because with this approach there is a problem in the specialframe.

\documentclass[c]{beamer}
\usetheme{Goettingen}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usecolortheme{seahorse}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{} % removes navigation symbols

\newenvironment{specialframe}
{
    \begingroup
    \advance\textwidth2cm % see beamerthemeGoettingen.sty for the number
    \hsize\textwidth
    \columnwidth\textwidth
    \begin{frame}[plain]
}
{
    \end{frame}
    \endgroup
}

\begin{document}

\begin{specialframe}
\frametitle{This is a special frame}

\lipsum[1]

\end{specialframe}

\begin{frame}{No special frame}

\lipsum[2]

\end{frame}

\end{document}
cacamailg
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  • How would you adapt that code if instead the sidebar was on the left (as in theme Berkeley)? Thanks! – Matifou Apr 13 '18 at 06:25
  • Maybe replacing \advance\textwidth2cm with \advance\leftskip-0.3cm or something. But I didn't had the time to check. – cacamailg Apr 13 '18 at 16:29