Notebook Formatting & Styling

Wolfram Language notebooks include all the usual features of a top-quality word-processing system, plus many additional special capabilities. In all, there are over a thousand formatting and styling options, all accessible both from menus and at a programmatic level. Wolfram Language notebooks have an underlying symbolic structure that allows full markup, cascading stylesheets, and the ability to immediately restyle a document. Notebooks can be optimized not only for interactive use, but also for export to web and print media.

(MenuGrayLink[Format ▶, paclet:guide/FormatMenu]) — main menu for formatting

(OrangeLink[Cell Styling », paclet:guide/CellStylingOptions])

(MenuGrayLink[Format, paclet:guide/FormatMenu]) ▶ (MenuGrayLink[Style, paclet:ref/menuitem/Style]) — pick a style for a cell, using the current stylesheet

(Key1[alt, n]) — pick a cell style (1: title, 2: subtitle, 4: section, 7: text, 9: input, ...)

(Key1[alt, enter]) — create a new cell of the same style

(OrangeLink[Text Styling », paclet:guide/TextStyling])

(OrangeLink[Math Typesetting », paclet:guide/MathematicalTypesetting])

(Key2[shift, ctrl, t]) — convert to traditional form

(Key1[ctrl, (]), (Key1[ctrl, )]) — start, end inline math within text

(OrangeLink[Graphics Styling », paclet:guide/GraphicsStylingInNotebooks])

Drag — resize a graphic that appears anywhere

(MenuGrayLink[Drawing Tools, paclet:ref/menuitem/DrawingTools]) — change properties of a graphic

(OrangeLink[Stylesheets & Customization », paclet:guide/Stylesheets])

(MenuGrayLink[New, paclet:ref/menuitem/New]) ▶ (MenuGrayLink[Styled Notebook, paclet:ref/menuitem/StyledNotebook]) — create a notebook of a particular style

(MenuGrayLink[Format, paclet:guide/FormatMenu]) ▶ (MenuGrayLink[Stylesheet, paclet:ref/menuitem/Stylesheet]) — pick a stylesheet for a notebook

Creating Styled Output

(RefLink[Style, paclet:ref/Style]) — specify style options for any expression, including graphics

(OrangeLink[Creating Layouts », paclet:guide/LayoutAndTables])

(OrangeLink[Dynamic Styling », paclet:guide/DynamicGraphicsElements])

Page Layout & Printing

Low-Level Styling Control

(MenuGrayLink[Option Inspector, paclet:ref/menuitem/OptionInspector]) — access to formatting & styling options

(MenuGrayLink[Show Expression, paclet:ref/menuitem/ShowExpression]) — toggle any cell to underlying symbolic expression form