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Questions tagged [cells]

Questions about cells and functionality related to cell structures, or the notebook cell hierachy which serves to organize the information in a Mathematica notebooks. This includes questions related to properties and options for cells that determine the overall look and behavior of the notebook.

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How to generate an input cell?

For example I have a block of code Module[{}, a=1;b=2;...] I want to have a function called gencode, so when I run gencode, it will generate an input cell which contains this block of code just like I type them by hand. How to write this gencode?
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How to implement specific cell grouping behavior?

Here's the situation in my Mathematica Notebook: I'd like the bottom cell to be grouped with the cells above it. Here are those same cells toggled into code: Cell["How to get new text cells to group right?", "ItemNumbered", …
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shorcut key of Cell->Cell Properties->Open

Is there a shortcut key to control the Open property of cell? Thanks!
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Is there a way to convert Wolfram Language expression to string?

Is there a way to convert a Wolfram Language expression / code into a string expression? For example, Convert the following including its indentations (very important), If[Length[$ScriptCommandLine]==1, Print["No expressions were given to…
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How to assign a tag to a cell

I want to assign each cell in my current notebook a tag so that I can rerun cells with specific tags later in the notebook (Using a method similar to this answer). My questions are How do I assign cells in my current notebook tags? How do I view…
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Column and CellLabel

Is it possible to add a CellLabel over multiple lines? When trying the code SetOptions[ NotebookSelect[mb], CellLabel-> Column@{"line 1", "line 2"} ] with a Cell selected in the mb Notebook, nothing shows up. What's the solution for this? Thanks…
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Is it possible to frame a group of cells?

Is it possible to put a frame around a group of cells (e.g. a numbered list)? My problem is, that if I select the cell group and then click frame on the writing assistant, then it puts a frame around each cell in stead of one frame around all the…
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Unique CellID in-between notebooks

Documentation says that CellID is guaranteed to be unique for a given notebook. I've noticed that CellID are fairly high numbers and although probabilistically speaking the odds of coincidence are low, how can I modify its behaviour to have a…
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How to get the CellID of a cell

I can count how many cells there are in a notebook up to and including the one whose ID i need, and then evaluate Cells[EvaluationNotebook[]][[number, 1]]. How to do this simpler? And how to get a list of cell IDs when a number of cells are…
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Setting WholeCellGroupOpener only for some cells

If I set the value of "WholeCellGroupOpener" to True, the cell with "Input" CellStyle can be folded with a mouse click. I wonder if there is a way that we can set "WholeCellGroupOpener" only for cells that have "Section" or "Chapter" CellStyle, and…
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hidden newline in long cell entries

I need to store long strings from mathematica to a text file. Unfortunately, mathematica provides long cell entries (input/output) after approx the 70th position with a hidden backslash and a new line character: / NL or hex: 5C 0A For example,…
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How to hide a cell with multiple output?

i'm working on a presentation using a Mathematica notebook. I'd like to hide the code i wrote. I found this answer and red this guide. After 7 years from that first answer that hacky method is still the way to go? What i am trying to do, to be clear…
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How to create inline math with CellPrint within Text cell?

I can create a text cell with text like this: CellPrint@Cell[ "this is a function call: f[x,y]", "Text" ] This produces: this is a function call: f[x,y] But I want f[x,y] to be in inline math form within the text cell, like below:
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How to read the data from output cells?

I have results of some calculation as a number of output cells in the saved .nb file. Since these results are obtained before (not during this run of Mathematica), I cannot use % to access previous output. They are many so I cannot do this…
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Do ShowGroupOpener and TitleGrouping suffice to control cell grouping?

[ Running Mathematica 9.0.1.0 under Ms Win XP Ver 5.1.2600 ] Here I group toghter ;-) some relate questions about cell grouping, because I presume that they all pertain to the same cell options (or strictly siblings), but I can't figure out what…
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