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Re: deleting a title or subtitle in a notebook

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• Subject: [mg73746] Re: deleting a title or subtitle in a notebook
• From: grzz_76 at hotmail.com
• Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:48:22 -0500 (EST)
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There is no cell selector (those blue square brackets that are on the
right side of each cell) for a Title cell - at least, not in my
notebook. Also, if I put my cursor in the title cell and hit the
delete button, nothing happens. Right-clicking on the cell to get the
context menu, I see options cut and copy are grayed out, but paste,
style, etc are not.

I right-click in the cell and chose Option Inspector. The Cell Option
is grayed out (as is Notebook and Global Options).

Thanks.


On Feb 26, 6:19 am, Murray Eisenberg <mur... at math.umass.edu> wrote:
> Are you saying that when, with the notebook open in the Front End, you
> select the bracket for a cell -- whatever style the cell might be -- and
> use Delete, the cell does not get deleted?
>
> Even if, by accident, you changed the cell's properties to Not Editable
> (in the Cell menu), Mathematica would still let you delete it.
>
> Could you have changed the cell's properties using the Option Inspector
> by any chance?  That allows you to mark the cell as not Deletable.  To
> check on this, select the cell.  Open the Option Inspector (from Cell
> menu, select Option Inspector).  Expand the section "Cell Options" in
> the Option Inspector's large lower window.  Under the Cell Options
> category, expand the "General Properties" section.   The fourth entry in
> the expanded list will be Deletable.  See whether that is set at its
> default value of True; if not, change it to True.  Click the Apply
> button and close the Option Inspector.  YOu should now be able to delete
> the cell.
>
> grzz... at hotmail.com wrote:
> > How do you delete a cell that was converted to a title or subtitle in
> > a Mathematica notebook? I'm astonished how difficult it is to find the
> > answer to this seemingly simple task!! I've tried changing the style,
> > using the Delete button, but nothing seems to work!
>
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