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Some tips and shortcuts you can use in Fabric notebooks
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I would like to be able to duplicate a cell, is that a shortcut today?
Hi Mike, nice meeting you at FabCon. I don't think there is a way to duplicate a cell. Curious about the use case? Why not cntrl+a, cntrl+c?
Sandeep Pawar Yes, that is typically what I do , but in other notebooks particularly Databricks, you can just copy a cell, Seems like an easy ask. A simpler button press to just copy would be best.
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Notebooks in Fabric offer a rich development experience with many hidden tricks and features. Below are some of them that I have discovered which can be helpful during development.
You can change the layout to side-by-side or standard. Side by side will split the layout vertically.
If you want cells to be excluded from execution, you call click on the snowflake ❄️ in cell options. This is very helpful during development when you don't want certain cells to be executed again when the entire notebook is re-run.
Similar to freeze cells but for creating read-only markdown cells, just select the 🔒lock icon in the cell options.
Just drag and drop the image from your PC to the markdown cell, it will automatically be embedded and uploaded to the lakehouse.
To replace a text from the entire notebook, Edit > Find and Replace. You can also use the regex patterns for complex find operations
Local (cell level) find and replace
Just highlight the word, right click > Change All Occurrences > start typing
If you need to do regex-based replacements, right click cell > Command Palette > Type Replace > Use Regex pattern
Highlight the text > right click > lower
Grab the blue bar on the left and drag and drop
Alt + click wherever you want to insert the cursor
Shift + Alt to make box selections and edits
Currently you can't pin a cell to bookmark it, but as a hack you can add a comment to a highlighted code and then just click on the comment itself to quickly jump to that cell/comment. Really handy during development to leave yourself some notes.
Select the cell options (three ellipses), and choose merge or split cells
If you know any more, please let me know!