

Off
Examples
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Scope (3)


Turn off the "Compiler" message group to prevent compiler messages from being issued:
No message is issued for an incorrect input:
The message is no longer suppressed:

Operations on symbols normally are done silently:
Use On to enable tracing of the symbol:

Properties & Relations (2)
Quiet can be used to leave messages on globally but suppress them in a particular computation:
The message is still issued by default for computations in the kernel session:

Check can be used to determine if a message was issued:

If a message is turned off, Check no longer reports message generation:
See Also
Tech Notes
Related Guides
Related Workflows
- Suppress Error Messages ▪
- Understand Error Messages
History
Introduced in 1988 (1.0) | Updated in 2008 (7.0)
Text
Wolfram Research (1988), Off, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Off.html (updated 2008).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1988. "Off." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2008. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Off.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1988). Off. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Off.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_off, author="Wolfram Research", title="{Off}", year="2008", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Off.html}", note=[Accessed: 15-August-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_off, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={Off}, year={2008}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Off.html}, note=[Accessed: 15-August-2025]}