TextCell

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`TextCell`

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TextCell["string"]

gives a text cell that can appear in a Wolfram System notebook.

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TextCell["string","style"]

gives a text cell with the specified style.

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TextCell["string","style₁","style₂",…]

gives a text cell with multiple styles applied to it.

Details and Options

Text cells are formatted like text, with appropriate spacing and line breaking.
CellPrint[TextCell[expr]] inserts a text cell into your current notebook.
Typical possible styles for text cells include "Title", "Section", "Text", etc.
TextCell[Row[{expr₁,expr₂,…}]] generates a text cell containing a concatenation of the expr_i, which need not be only strings.
TextCell can have any of the many options of Cell, including:

	Background	the color of the background for the cell
	CellBaseline	alignment relative to surrounding text
	CellFrame	whether to draw a frame around the cell
	CellTags	tags for the cell
	Editable	whether to allow the contents of the cell to be edited
	FontSize	the default size of text in the cell
	TextAlignment	how to align text in the cell

Examples

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Basic Examples (2)Summary of the most common use cases

This represents a cell that contains text:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0j41sv2i-0v6ud

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This turns the cell expression into an actual cell in the current notebook:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0j41sv2i-c9mdcz

abcde

Create a cell with the Section style:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0j41sv2i-i7ajqk

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Scope (4)Survey of the scope of standard use cases

Text cells can contain a mixture of simple text and Wolfram Language expressions:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0j41sv2i-qly

Text cells can contain styled text:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0j41sv2i-gykt7x

Use different styles:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0j41sv2i-7f5l7

Out[1]=1

Use more than one style:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0j41sv2i-dwi3xl

Out[1]=1

Applications (1)Sample problems that can be solved with this function

Here is a simple function that produces a document as an answer using expression and text cells:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0j41sv2i-ediny0

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0j41sv2i-b5becq

Out[2]=2

Properties & Relations (2)Properties of the function, and connections to other functions

TextCell and ExpressionCell format contents differently:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0j41sv2i-dve7p7

If the argument to TextCell is not a string or a Row, it will produce an expression cell:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0j41sv2i-y2pgl

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Possible Issues (1)Common pitfalls and unexpected behavior

Certain Cell options only affect standalone cells, such as cells produced by CellPrint, and do not affect cells that occur within an output cell:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0j41sv2i-2d5gsf

Out[1]=1

In[2]:=2

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0j41sv2i-v7w19s

abcde

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