Questions tagged [notebooks]
Questions on Notebooks (*.nb, *.ma in earlier versions), structured interactive documents produced by Mathematica that can contain text, graphics, sound, calculations, typeset expressions, and user interface elements.
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How do I switch off the spell checking in notebook text cells? [duplicate]
When I write my notebooks I usually use English in the text cells. However, in some cases, I need to write in Russian or German. Then the German or Russian text appears underlined. Please find below ...
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Is it possible to modify the evaluation timestamp format?
There's an option in the options inspector to display a timestamp upon evaluation of a cell: Notebook Options → Evaluation Options → EvaluationCompletionAction → AddTimeStamp. That causes the date and ...
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How are people using the Notebook Assistant and how useful is it?
This is more of a community question than an answerable problem. If it's out of bounds I'll be happy to withdraw it. But, one year out, I'm curious as to other WL users' experiences with the ...
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Selecting notebook cells in MMA 14.3.0
I'm trying a notebook in 14.3.0 for the first time and trying to select cells for deletion, etc. But whenever I move my cursor to the cell bracket, the scroll bar expands and blocks the pointer from ...
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How can I run cleanup code automatically at the end of an evaluation (without wrapping the code)?
I would like to invisibly open a notebook, return the notebook object, use it in subsequent intermediate evaluations within the active overall evaluation, and then close the notebook object at the end ...
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Pollution in context added by BeginPackage remains even after Exit
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$Version
(* "14.3.0 for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) (July 8, 2025)" *)
The issue can be reproduced in the following manner. First, execute the ...
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NotebookOpen opens subgroups when Visible-> False is used
If I have a notebook (in this case its a .wl file, idk if that matters) that I close some cell groups in, and then I close that and open it later, typically the same cells are opened/closed as when I ...
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Get file directory, whether notebook or script
I have some code, currently in a notebook, which should produce some output in the same directory as the notebook, for which I am using NotebookDirectory[]. I would ...
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Why are notebooks not saved on the drive when you save it [closed]
I lost three days of work because Mathematica doesn't save notebooks to the hard drive unless you change their names. All multiple saving of the notebooks were purely virtual, and when Mathematica ...
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Skip evaluation of some section
I’m using Section and Subsection styles in a Mathematica Notebook to organize code. I want to control whether Input cells under ...
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Print just the plots in a notebook [duplicate]
Is there a way to quickly print all of the plots (and nothing else) in a notebook?
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Set tab width in code cells and .wl notebooks
How can one set the default tab-width for code cells and the default cells in a .wl notebook. At the moment, the default is 4.
Note: I know this is a basic question, but neither Google, Stack Exchange,...
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Change user-assigned symbol syntax coloring
I would like user-assigned symbols to be colored dark blue instead of black, to distinguish them from built-in symbols. Is this possible? I wasn't able to find any option available for this in the ...
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Randomly disabled UNDO
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mathematica 12.3.1.0 Linux x86 (64bit)
When I am writing some script on mathematica notebook, at some random points, the undo function stop tracking of what I have been doing.
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Mouse over bubble comment or hidden comment for further explanations about an equation
Hello I am pretty new to Mathematica, using v 14.1, I usually use it primarily for writing as notes for future reminding how I did certain problems to remind me of understanding it if I had forgotten, ...
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