Is it possible to suppress 'Out[xxx]=' without suppressing 'In[xxx]:='?

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While I have not exhaustively searched Help/Documentation Center for an answer to my question, I have put forth a yeoman’s effort without any success.

Does anyone know if it is possible to suppress “Out=” on an on-going basis within a notebook without also suppressing “In:=” and if it is, could you please tell me how?

Thanks!

Jim

2

Switching both (in and out) off is easy: In the Option Inspector (under Format) choose “Global Preferences”. Then go to:

Cell Options->CellLabels->Show Cell Labels

and untick the box.

I just noticed that you want to selectively suppress the Out without suppressing the In; that’s more complicated.

M.

3

This page is interesting. It shows how to supress the In[]/Out[] commands only in a print-out of the document:

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/1135/removing-in-out-labels-before-printing

M.

4

Marco,

First, thank you for your very prompt and informative reply.

Your suggestion is very helpful since I would prefer both off instead of both on.

Regarding the more complicated objective of suppressing ‘Out=’ without suppressing ‘In:=’, can you give me any direction so I may chase the answer down?

Thanks, again!

Sincerely,

Jim

5

One approach is to create a new stylesheet… or to edit the private stylesheet for the notebook.

For an example of the latter, choose the Format>Edit Stylesheet menu item.
Then in the “Chooose a Style” dropdown menu choose “Output”.
Then select the cell bracket of the Output that has been placed in the private stylesheet and choose the Cell>ShowExpression menu item.
In the displayed cell expression change it to

Cell[StyleData["Output"],ShowCellLabel->False]

Then unselect the Cell>ShowExpression menu item and close the private stylesheet.

The result is that your Output cells will no longer have the Out cell lables.