RE: new user question about creating a new cell
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg34664] RE: [mg34640] new user question about creating a new cell
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 04:26:53 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
When you have a horizontal I and click, you should obtain a horizontal line that indicates the selection point in the notebook. When you start typing you obtain an Input cell because that is the default new cell type. However, you can obtain other types of cells by telling Mathematica which cell type you want. You can do this in several ways. 1) Use the menu item Format\Style and select the cell type, for example Text. Then start typing and you will have a Text cell. (If you, however, click in the notebook again before you start typing, you will be back to an Input cell.) 2) You will see in the Style menu that many of the cell types have a Alt key definition. For example, Text uses Alt-7. So you can click to produce the horizontal line, type Alt-7, and then start typing to obtain a Text cell. 3) You can put a ToolBar at the top of your notebook. Use the menu item Format\Show ToolBar. The ToolBar has a drop down menu of cell types. So, after you click to obtain the horizontal line, select the cell type from the drop down menu and then start typing. David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ > From: rad0 [mailto:rad0 at mindspring.com] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > > > Hello, > > Just reading thru the getting started book, and in the 'Notebooks > and Cells' > section, > page 16, it says to move the pointer until it becomes a horizontal I beam, > click, and > a cell insertion bar will appear. > > This doesn't happen on my machine. It turns into a horizontal I beam, but > nothing > happens when I click. > > The only way I can create a new cell is to just begin typing. > This creates > a cell of the > input style. Then you can select the cell and turn it into anything you > want, but it doesn't > seem to work the way the book describes, via clicking. > > So, ---do I have someting set somewhere to keep the horizontal I beam from > creating > a new cell, or what? > > Thanks > >