A Utilities Palette
By:  Ted Ersek; (email address) ted.ersek@navy.mil 

Version: 1.0  October 1999
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The Utilities palette has six buttons. The three upper buttons 
on the palette are related to page breaks and are enhanced 
versions of buttons Rolf Mertig once sent to the MathGroup.  An 
explanation of what each button does is provided below.

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TIP
Put the (Utilities.nb) notebook in the folder
  SystemFiles/FrontEnd/Palettes
that way the palette can be accessed with the menu selection
  File --> Palettes

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First some definitions:

-- Input Notebook -- 
The current notebook into which keyboard input in the front end 
will be directed.


-- Insertion Point --
The place in the input notebook where keyboard input is inserted.


-- PageBreak Cell --
A cell with a red cell bracket that does essentially nothing but 
force a page break.


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THE BUTTONS ON THE PALETTE

Insert a PageBreak
If the insertion point is between cells, then a PageBreak 
cell is inserted at the insertion point. If the insertion 
point is within a cell, then a PageBreak cell is inserted after 
the cell where the insertion point is located.  After 
inserting a PageBreak cell the insertion point is immediately 
after the new PageBreak cell.


Next PageBreak
Selects the next PageBreak cell in the input notebook. If no 
PageBreaks cells are found after searching to the end of the 
notebook, then the first PageBreak cell in the notebook is 
selected. When the input notebook has no PageBreak cells, the 
button does nothing.


Previous PageBreak
Selects the previous PageBreak cell in the input notebook. If 
no PageBreaks cells are found after searching to the beginning 
of the notebook, then the last PageBreak cell in the notebook 
is selected. When the input notebook has no PageBreak cells, 
the button does nothing.


Delete Messages
Delete all messages in the input notebook and the Messages 
notebook.


Delete Graphics
Delete all graphics in the input notebook.


Delete Graphics and Graphic Output Cells
Delete all graphics in the input notebook.  Also delete all 
StandardForm and TraditionalForm graphic output cells in the 
same notebook. The output cells deleted include -Graphics-, 
-SurfaceGraphics-, -DensityGraphics-, -ContourGraphics-, 
-Graphics3D- and -Sound-.  This button is slow when used on 
a large notebook.