Adding An Appendix to Beamer

I'm preparing for some bigger presentations (Comps, Conferences, Thesis etc ...) and I decided that I wanted to have some appendix slides to answer those tricky questions that come up after the presentation is over.

Beamer claims to have a \appendix function, but it didn't seem to have much effect. My slides present the slide number and total number of slides in the bottom-right, and I don't want the appendix adding to that total.

I found a solution with the appendixnumberbeamer package. With this attached, the \appendix function will reset the page numbering, results in appendices that don't effect the number of slides.

I'm not going to make a sample, you can figure it out

Creating Columns in Articles

I was going to write a blog about this subject, but I found someone else blog that already does it. Rather than be a jerk and steal his (or her) content, I'll just link to it.

http://texblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/11/creating-two-columns-in-article-report-or-book/

The only thing I would add is that, for anybody that uses the \textwidth variable, it still refers to the width of the page, and not the width of the column, so use \columnwidth instead.