Re: deleting a title or subtitle in a notebook
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- Subject: [mg73821] [mg73821] Re: deleting a title or subtitle in a notebook
- From: grzz_76 at hotmail.com
- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 06:09:50 -0500 (EST)
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Thank you for all the suggestions. The one suggested by Andrzej Kozlowski does work, as do many of the other options (including changing the Style back to the default one to reveal the brackets.) So, my next question is, why does this action require all of these intermediate steps? It seems that deleting a Title or subtitle cell should be as easy (1-step) as deleting any of the others (in other words, why aren't those brackets revealed in the Title/Subtitle cells?) Thanks for all who responded. On Feb 28, 4:02 am, Andrzej Kozlowski <a... at mimuw.edu.pl> wrote: > I suggested a much simpler (in my opinion) approach: just clicking > anywhere in the cell that does not display a bracket and choosing > Show Expression form the Format menu. The bracket will then appear. I > have been using this mehtod for years. I am curious that this > suggestion is being ignored; is there anything wrong with it? > > Andrzej Kozlowski > > On 27 Feb 2007, at 11:45, Murray Eisenberg wrote: > > > In considering my response further, another possibility occurred to > > me: > > You are using a notebook StyleSheet in which Title and Subtitle > > cells do > > not display their cell brackets at all. > > > In that case, you could temporarily change the Style Sheet back to a > > default style that does show those brackets, delete the cell, and then > > restore the Style Sheet you want. Of course do this ONLY if you are > > using a saved, separate Style Sheet rather than an imported copy that > > you have modified. > > > Murray Eisenberg 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! > > > -- > > Murray Eisenberg mur... at math.umass.edu > > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. > > Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) > > University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) > > 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 > > Amherst, MA 01003-9305