From simple calculations to full publishable documents and sophisticated dynamic interfaces, everything you can do with
Mathematica's standard interactive interface is done in a notebook. Carefully designed to leverage familiar word-processing metaphors,
Mathematica notebooks are uniquely powerful computational documents that support live computation, arbitrary dynamic interfaces, full typeset input, image input, automatic code annotation, a complete high-level programmatic interface, and in all, thousands of carefully organized functions and options.
Shift+Enter — do a computation
— choose how to enter input (
Mathematica language, free-form, text, etc.)
(
at beginning of input) — use free-form linguistics to generate
Mathematica output
F1 — get information or help
[Right-click] — get a context-specific menu
double-click a group bracket — open or close a cell group
double-click cell brackets — close all other cells in a group
Alt+. — abort a computation
Ctrl+L — copy input from above
triple-click — select a function and its arguments
Alt+7 — text cell (with default stylesheet) ()
Alt+4 — section-heading cell (with default stylesheet)
Alt+Enter — create a new cell of the same style
drag — rotate a 3D graphic
Ctrl+D — open graphics drawing tools ()
Global Notebook Operations
