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Notebook Basics
From simple calculations to full publishable documents and sophisticated dynamic interfaces, everything you 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, automatic code annotation, a complete high-level programmatic interface—and in all, thousands of carefully organized functions and options.
Shift+Enter do a computation
    
F1 get information or help
    
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
Subscript (Ctrl+_)  ▪ Special Character  ▪ Convert to StandardForm  ▪ Why the Coloring?  ▪ ...
Alt+7 text cell (with default stylesheet) (FormatStyle...)
Alt+4 section-heading cell (with default stylesheet)
Alt+Enter create a new cell of the same style
Format  ▪ Stylesheet  ▪ ...
Graphics Operations
drag rotate a 3D graphic
Ctrl+D open graphics drawing tools (GraphicsShow Drawing Tools)
Global Notebook Operations
Save AsHTML, etc.  ▪ Notebook History  ▪ Check Spelling  ▪ Send To
    
FileNew  ▪ Save  ▪ Print  ▪ Exit  ▪ ...
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