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SelectedNotebook

Usage

• SelectedNotebook[ ] gives the currently selected notebook in the front end.


Notes

• SelectedNotebook returns a NotebookObject.
• The currently selected notebook will normally have its title bar highlighted.
• The currently selected notebook is the one to which notebook-oriented menu commands in the front end will be directed. Textual commands are however directed to the input notebook.
• A palette window can be a currently selected notebook but cannot normally be an input notebook.
• See Section 2.11.3.
• See also: SetSelectedNotebook, Notebooks, InputNotebook, EvaluationNotebook, ButtonNotebook.
• New in Version 3.


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