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Cell ► Cell Properties ► Initialization Cell

Initialization Cell
makes a cell auto-evaluate whenever the notebook is opened and the kernel is launched.

When a cell is an initialization cell, a vertical tick mark (|) appears in the cell bracket.

Initialization Cell toggles the option InitializationCell between True and False on the selected cell objects.

The option InitializationCellEvaluation, set at the notebook level, determines when the initialization cells in a notebook are evaluated.

The option InitializationCellWarning determines whether you get a dialog box confirming that you want to evaluate the initialization cells, at the time determined by InitializationCellEvaluation.

You can evaluate the initialization cells manually at any time by choosing Evaluation ► Evaluate Initialization Cells.