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Notebook Basics
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.
Reference
Shift+Enter — do a computation
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at beginning of input) — use free-form linguistics to generate Mathematica output
right-click — get a context-specific menu
Cell Groups and Outlining »
double-click a group bracket — open or close a cell group
double-click cell brackets — close all other cells in a group
Managing Computations »
Ctrl+L — copy input from above
Selecting and Typing »
triple-click — select a function and its arguments
Subscript (Ctrl+_) ▪ Special Character ▪ Convert to StandardForm ▪ Why the Coloring? ▪ ...
Styling & Formatting »
Alt+7 — text cell (with default stylesheet) (Format ► Style ► ...)
Alt+4 — section-heading cell (with default stylesheet)
Alt+Enter — create a new cell of the same style
Graphics Operations
Ctrl+D — open graphics drawing tools (Graphics ► Drawing Tools)
Global Notebook Operations
Save As ► HTML, etc. ▪ Notebook History ▪ Check Spelling ▪ Send To
Notebook Environment Customization »
Preferences ▪ Option Inspector ▪ ...
Menu Items »
File ► New ▪ Save ▪ Print ▪ Exit ▪ ...
Insert ► Table/Matrix ▪ Drawing Tools ▪ Option Inspector ▪ ...
