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SelectionEvaluateCreateCell

SelectionEvaluateCreateCell[notebook]
takes the current selection in a notebook and creates a new cell containing the result obtained by evaluating the contents of the selection using the kernel.

sets the current selection after the evaluation to be as specified by sel.

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The first argument of SelectionEvaluateCreateCell is a NotebookObject.

Possible settings for sel are as in NotebookWrite.

The default for sel is .

SelectionEvaluateCreateCell[notebook, All] sets the current selection to be the cell corresponding to the result from the evaluation.

SelectionEvaluateCreateCell performs the same underlying operation as typing Shift+Enter in the front end. It does not, however, have side effects such as incrementing $Line.