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TextCell

TextCell
gives a text cell that can appear in a Mathematica notebook.
TextCell
gives a text cell with the specified style.
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  • Text cells are formatted like text, with appropriate spacing and line breaking.
  • CellPrint inserts a text cell into your current notebook.
  • Typical possible styles for text cells include , , "Text", etc.
  • TextCell[Row[{expr1, expr2, ...}]] generates a text cell containing a concatenation of the , which need not be only strings.
  • TextCell can have any of the many options of Cell, including:
Backgroundthe color of the background for the cell
CellBaselinealignment relative to surrounding text
CellFramewhether to draw a frame around the cell
CellTagstags for the cell
Editablewhether to allow the contents of the cell to be edited
FontSizethe default size of text in the cell
TextAlignmenthow to align text in the cell
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Basic Examples   (2)
This represents a cell that contains text:
This turns the cell expression into an actual cell in the current notebook:
This represents a cell that contains text:
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This turns the cell expression into an actual cell in the current notebook:
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abcde
 
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Scope   (3)
Text cells can contain a mixture of simple text and Mathematica expressions:
Text cells can contain styled text:
Use different default styles:
Properties & Relations   (2)
TextCell and ExpressionCell format contents differently:
If the argument to TextCell is not a string or a Row, it will produce an expression cell:
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