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Re: Outline navigator?

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In effect, yes -- provided that you structure your notebook into 
sections, subsections, etc. (which is easy). By default, this then 
creates cell "groups". For example, the entire notebook is a cell group; 
each section is a subgroup of that; each subsection of a section is a 
subgroup of it section group; etc.

Then you can simply "collapse" all cell groups or any particular cell 
groups to just their headings. And open any or all such with a click.

So what you have, in effect, is an outline. But that outline is actually 
directly embedded with the body content of that outline.

There is also a way to cause sections or subsections, etc., to be 
automatically numbered in sequence (and the numbers will automatically 
adjust if, e.g., you insert a new section between two existing sections).

Of course you can, if you wish, create a separate outline at the 
beginning (or end, or anywhere) in a notebook. But then you need to 
insert in-notebook hyperlinks to the corresponding sections, etc., of 
the notebook.

One special case: If you choose the SlideShow option for a notebook, 
then a provided palette allows you to create with a click a Table of 
Contents in a separate window from the notebook itself, and you can 
automatically move to a slide from the corresponding entry in that list 
of slides.

 From your questions, it sounds like you are either not yet a 
Mathematica user or else are a new user. Then I recommend you go through 
some of the Tutorials about notebooks -- included in the Documentation 
Center if you have Mathematica or, if you don't, the same thing on line at:

   http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/Mathematica.html

And I recommend the on-line tutorial (and other) screencasts at:

   http://www.wolfram.com/broadcast/

Especially, e.g., the Tutorial "Presenting in Notebooks" there.

On 4/16/2011 7:31 AM, mailcwc@gmail.com wrote:
> Does Mathematica have a outline navigator that collect all title,
> subtitle, subsubtitle into a tree structure and let user easily jump
> from one cell to another cell in a notebook?
>

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Re: Outline navigator? Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu> - 2011-04-17 11:55 +0000

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