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I am preparint a presentation in beamer using the theme "beamerthemeshadow". In all slides, next to the superior border, a list appears always with section and subsection name, highlighted depending on the part of the presentation I am. It worked fine, but I observe now, in some part I added 5 subsubsections, and now the "box" (what is the right name for this?) grew a lot, so now it takes half slide! I do not udnerstand this since subsubsections do not appear on this object. Can you tell me how do I solve this? Thanks

P.D. And how can one shorten the name of the subsections and sections as they appear on this "box"?

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have you already tried things like \subsection[short for toc]{long for slide}? – Martin H Jul 6 '11 at 12:49
@martin H I'd suggest adding that as an answer. – Seamus Jul 6 '11 at 13:26
yes, that works! but my main question is the problem with the box size when having around 8 subsubsectios – flow Jul 6 '11 at 13:49

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In beamer you can use the function of providing short names for the table of contents. This works in regular document classes as well.

In you case using 

\subsection[short version for toc]{long version}

should give a smaller toc-box.

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I still get the same error, although the titles are shorter now – flow Jul 6 '11 at 13:57
you should provide a minimal working example. otherwise there is too much guesswork involved – Martin H Jul 6 '11 at 16:26
In that case: \subsubsection[short version for toc]{long version} short version does not appear (I get the long version). \ How could I fix this problem? – user11394 Feb 2 '12 at 15:54
@ConstantineDelisTsardounis I converted your answer, which actually is a question, to a comment. – Stefan Kottwitz♦ Feb 2 '12 at 16:27

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