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I'm looking for the most versatile option to insert a footnote in beamer with no number.

Thanks so much, Asaf

Asaf
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You could define your own command that yields an unnumbered footnote as shown in the following MWE:

\documentclass{beamer}
\newcommand\unfootnote[1]{%
  \begingroup
  \renewcommand\thefootnote{}\footnote{#1}%
  \addtocounter{footnote}{-1}%
  \endgroup
}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
Some text\unfootnote{An unnumbered footnote} \footnote{a numbered footnote}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

enter image description here

leandriis
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  • Thank you @leandriis. I tried your code but the footnotes do not appear. When I change to \footnote[frame]{a numbered footnote}, a numbered footnote shows; but I don't know how to change the \unfootnote command definition accordingly. Thank you! – Asaf Jan 04 '18 at 09:31
  • I have edited my answer to include an image of the output. As you can see, the footnotes are printed as expected. Do you encouter the problem with the MWE or with your actual document? Also, why do you need the [frame] option? According to the beamer documentation, it is the default behaviour. – leandriis Jan 04 '18 at 09:48
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The footnote number can be removed with a slight adjustment of beamers footnote template:

\documentclass{beamer}

\setbeamertemplate{footnote}{%
  \parindent 1em\noindent%
  \raggedright
  \insertfootnotetext\par%
}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}

text \footnotetext{A test footnote in the first column}

\end{frame}

\end{document}

enter image description here

samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz
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