Notebook Basics
From simple calculations to full publishable documents and sophisticated dynamic interfaces, everything you can do with the Wolfram System's standard interactive interface is done in a notebook. Carefully designed to leverage familiar word-processing metaphors, Wolfram System 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.
— choose how to enter input (Wolfram Language, free-form, text, etc.)
(
at beginning of input) — use free-form linguistics to generate Wolfram System 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 »
Selecting and Typing »
triple-click — select a function and its arguments
Subscript (
) ▪ Special Character ▪ Convert to StandardForm ▪ Why the Coloring? ▪ ...
Styling & Formatting »
— text cell (with default stylesheet) (Format ▶ Style ▶ ...)
— section-heading cell (with default stylesheet)
— create a new cell of the same style
Graphics Operations
— toggle canvas (Graphics ▶ Convert To/From Canvas)
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 ▪ New Canvas ▪ Option Inspector ▪ ...