NotebookClose
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NotebookClose
Details and Options

- NotebookClose will make a notebook disappear from your screen, and will invalidate all notebook objects that refer to that notebook.
- If the option setting Interactive->True is given, the front end will prompt the user to decide whether to close the notebook without saving if it would have normally done so in response to a user action to close the notebook.
Examples
open allclose allBasic Examples (1)Summary of the most common use cases
Applications (1)Sample problems that can be solved with this function
Properties & Relations (1)Properties of the function, and connections to other functions
Use NotebookSave when you want to save changes before closing a notebook:
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NotebookOpen opens the notebook from the file:
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Wolfram Research (1996), NotebookClose, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NotebookClose.html (updated 2012).
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Wolfram Research (1996), NotebookClose, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NotebookClose.html (updated 2012).
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Wolfram Research (1996), NotebookClose, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NotebookClose.html (updated 2012).
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Wolfram Research (1996), NotebookClose, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NotebookClose.html (updated 2012).
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Wolfram Language. 1996. "NotebookClose." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2012. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NotebookClose.html.
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Wolfram Language. 1996. "NotebookClose." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2012. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NotebookClose.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1996). NotebookClose. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NotebookClose.html
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Wolfram Language. (1996). NotebookClose. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NotebookClose.html
BibTeX
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@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_notebookclose, author="Wolfram Research", title="{NotebookClose}", year="2012", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NotebookClose.html}", note=[Accessed: 08-July-2025
]}
BibLaTeX
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@online{reference.wolfram_2025_notebookclose, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={NotebookClose}, year={2012}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/NotebookClose.html}, note=[Accessed: 08-July-2025
]}