Working with NotebooksMathematica CalcCenter notebooks integrate text, equations, and graphics in a convenient, platform-independent format. You can send them via email or post them on the web. Each notebook consists of a series of cells. Cells come in a variety of styles such as Title, Section, Input, and Text. By adjusting the styles of cells, you can control the structure of your document in a flexible way. To create a new cell:1. Move the pointer until it becomes a horizontal I-beam.2. Click and a cell insertion bar will appear; start typing. By default, new cells are created in the Input style.To create a new cell to hold ordinary text:1. Click in the notebook to get a cell insertion bar.2. Choose Edit Style Text , --or-- use the keyboard shortcut  7 or  7 on Macintosh.3. When you start typing, a text cell bracket appears.To change the style of a cell:1. Click the cell bracket. The bracket is highlighted. 2. Select a style from the Style submenu. The cell will immediately reflect the change.To close a group of cells:Double-click the outermost cell bracket of the group. When a group is closed, only the first cell in the group is displayed and the group bracket has a triangular flag at the bottom. To open a group of cells:Double-click a closed group's cell bracket. To print a notebook:Choose File Print. The notebook styles will be automatically optimized for printing. To change the overall look of a notebook:1. Choose Edit Change Style Sheet.2. Choose a style sheet from the Change Style Sheet submenus. All cells in the notebook will change appearance, based on the definitions in the new style sheet.Mathematica CalcCenter comes with a collection of color and black-and-white style sheets. T I P
For colleagues without Mathematica CalcCenter, a free read-only viewer for notebooks, , is available from Wolfram Research. It can be downloaded from www.wolfram.com/mathreader.
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