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When I write my notebooks I usually use English in the text cells. However, in some cases, I need to write in Russian or German. Then the German or Russian text appears underlined. Please find below ...
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There's an option in the options inspector to display a timestamp upon evaluation of a cell: Notebook Options → Evaluation Options → EvaluationCompletionAction → AddTimeStamp. That causes the date and ...
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This is more of a community question than an answerable problem. If it's out of bounds I'll be happy to withdraw it. But, one year out, I'm curious as to other WL users' experiences with the ...
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I'm trying a notebook in 14.3.0 for the first time and trying to select cells for deletion, etc. But whenever I move my cursor to the cell bracket, the scroll bar expands and blocks the pointer from ...
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I would like to invisibly open a notebook, return the notebook object, use it in subsequent intermediate evaluations within the active overall evaluation, and then close the notebook object at the end ...
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Tested in $Version (* "14.3.0 for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) (July 8, 2025)" *) The issue can be reproduced in the following manner. First, execute the ...
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If I have a notebook (in this case its a .wl file, idk if that matters) that I close some cell groups in, and then I close that and open it later, typically the same cells are opened/closed as when I ...
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I have some code, currently in a notebook, which should produce some output in the same directory as the notebook, for which I am using NotebookDirectory[]. I would ...
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I lost three days of work because Mathematica doesn't save notebooks to the hard drive unless you change their names. All multiple saving of the notebooks were purely virtual, and when Mathematica ...
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I’m using Section and Subsection styles in a Mathematica Notebook to organize code. I want to control whether Input cells under ...
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Is there a way to quickly print all of the plots (and nothing else) in a notebook?
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How can one set the default tab-width for code cells and the default cells in a .wl notebook. At the moment, the default is 4. Note: I know this is a basic question, but neither Google, Stack Exchange,...
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I would like user-assigned symbols to be colored dark blue instead of black, to distinguish them from built-in symbols. Is this possible? I wasn't able to find any option available for this in the ...
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I am using mathematica 12.3.1.0 Linux x86 (64bit) When I am writing some script on mathematica notebook, at some random points, the undo function stop tracking of what I have been doing. For example, ...
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Hello I am pretty new to Mathematica, using v 14.1, I usually use it primarily for writing as notes for future reminding how I did certain problems to remind me of understanding it if I had forgotten, ...
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I have a notebook with many sections, subsections and subsubsections. I want to evaluate the notebook or a section but would like to have certain subsections or subsubsections not evaluate. How do I ...
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When I am working in a very long notebook, the mouse wheel scrolls much faster than it does in a short notebook. This is very annoying because scrolling around gets more and more difficult the longer ...
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I work on Linux OpenSuse Leap 15.6 with Mathematica Apps V12 and V14.2 installed on separate partitions. Scrolling of Mathematica Notebooks in V12 and V14 behave differently. Scrolling in V12 is ...
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I inadvertently pushed a button(s) and the word Confidential appeared at the top of my notebook window. Then I noticed that I could hide or display the code. I really like this feature but I don't ...
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Update 2 It seems that it has been fixed in V. 14.2.1. Update As what Domen mentions in the comment, as well as I have tested it, it seems highly relevant to the option "Code caption language&...
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I have 14.2 and I chose macOS stylesheet option from writing assistant. Now the yellow color is not applied anymore in 14.2 The white part of the notebook should be yellow. Does anyone has this issue?
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The Mathematica notebook highlights all instances of a symbol while typing. I found a description of this feature on the "Summary of New and Improved Features in 14.1" (link) with: ...
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I would like to specify that the next output cell created has the specified CellTag. I want only that cell to have that tag. Ideally I want that tag in addition to ...
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I'd like to create a keyboard shortcut, say Ctrl+H, that replaces some text XYZ with ...
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I already pay many dollars to openai and other llm vendors every month and I have a separate key for each service. Is there a way to make a side-docked "Assistant Notebook" that does the ...
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While working with a notebook an additional blue bar popped up: Don't know how it happens. My Question: How could I remove this "blue bar"? Thanks!
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I'm running Mathematica 13 on Linux, both at home and at work. I brought a notebook I was working on at home to work, but when I opened it the commands were completely out of place - characters seem ...
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In an attempt to have a truly dark theme for Mathematica, I am using one of the dark themes, a custom CSS (inspired by this answer) and only a few WindowElements (...
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I have a directory with ".nb" files (currently 503 of them), and I know that I've been modifying one of them on week 45 of 2023. I'm looking for code that will list .nb files that have a ...
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Assume there are several notebooks opened. I want to ClearAll["Global`*"] when I close any notebook(by clicking the close button of the window). The code below is my attempt although it does ...
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I would like to minimize my palettes sometimes. This was the closest that I could find, but it's not quite the same. Also, the WindowFloating options is deprecated ...
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I know I can Style all content of a cell using: ...
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I have a External language session of "SQL-JDBC" created and connected to the External language cell: ...
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The code below produces a button that toggles the right cell bracket margin of the current notebook between 0 and 150. ...
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I am new to Mathematica, and I am using Mathematica v12.3. I am writing some math notes which include text and some equations. I know that in a text cell I can press CTRL+( and start typing some ...
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I am having an issue that is seriously impacting my ability to fluently write code in wolframnotebook 14.1. Whenever my cursor is just behind an opening bracket/parenthesis/brace, it automatically ...
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This feature comes from one book Introduction to Machine Learning. Its notebook edition provides the following interactive features without open new window: But it cannot view and edit the source ...
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I wrote a useful LLMTool that works well with LLMSynthesize, but now I want to chat with it using the full chatbook interface. Is there a way to add that tool to the current notebook's ...
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After performing some operations on cells in a notebook (with NotebookWrite and NotebookDelete) I need to restore the cursor's position within a particular cell. How can this be done? I've found that <...
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I would like to evaluate a section several times for different values of some variables. I can evaluate it once with a simple command, but not in a loop. To evaluate it only once, this code works <...
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Here's a handy "monitored map" function: ...
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I need to prepare a Mathematica notebook for presentation, in which I want to use several different colors in order to highlight some key symbols. To make the presentation accesible to color deficient ...
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This default setting can cause subtle and difficult to find problems, such as inconsistent or incorrect answers when symbols, variables or functions in different notebooks have the same name. I speak ...
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At one point in the past I believed that a style sheet colocated with a notebook would not require a path. For example, if my notebook resided in the same directory as this style sheet, the style ...
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I like the formatting for Code and would like to use it for all my input. However, I want to be able to have both Initialization and non-initialization cells and I'...
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Can I get Manipulateto allow me, once the plot appears, to hover my mouse over the plot and scroll my mouse wheel to vary the parameter $a$? Currently I need to ...
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I'm used to pressing Ctrl+Shift+I (or N if I want a shorter form) to reformat my input cells in a nicer way after editing them, e.g., to remove unnecessary parentheses, add or remove spaces as needed, ...
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I tried to write a function to "Evaluate in Place", as I've shown in: How to get the output of evaluating in place and append the output to the place. But now I have encountered a new ...
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I am trying to use MMA for some engineering calculations, and the text cell contains both descriptive text and mathematical formulas. The example is as follows: ...
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I would like to do a kind of versioned TabView for several runs of the same code. I would like some help in fixing this prototype code: ...
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