This is a selection of examples from the complete
"How to" screencast. »Attempting to evaluate a text cell will produce a beep. Select this text cell and press
Shift+EnterTo find out why
Mathematica produced the beep, select :
A window pops up telling you that
Mathematica beeped because you tried to evaluate an unevaluatable cell:
Other actions that make
Mathematica beep include trying to type with a cell bracket selected or using for something that is not in the current notebook.
To choose the actions that
Mathematica will take when it encounters front end errors, open the menu.
If you are running Mac OS X, select from the menu. If you are running Windows or Linux, select :
On the
Interface tab of the
Preferences window, you can select the actions you prefer in the
Message and Warning Actions section:
