# Formatting julia code in Pluto notebook cells?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/formatting-julia-code-in-pluto-notebook-cells/97135
**Category:** Pluto
**Created:** [April 5, 2023, 8:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/formatting-julia-code-in-pluto-notebook-cells/97135 "2023-04-05T20:40:53Z")
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### Author:  [@rud-lucien](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rud-lucien)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2023, 8:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/formatting-julia-code-in-pluto-notebook-cells/97135/1 "2023-04-05T20:40:53Z")
Hi,
I have recently started using Pluto notebooks and am really enjoying it! I am having lots of fun actually! I love the reactive aspect of this notebook and also love the fact that I can bypass it when I want to by taking advantage of the scoping permitted with let blocks ☺. Any who…
I was just wondering if there is a way to format the Julia code within a Pluto notebook cell? I have searched around online and haven’t found anything regarding this subject (at least not obvious to me anyways). I tend to write pretty poorly formatted code on the fly and was hoping to take advantage of some sort of automated formatter that adheres to a style guide for Julia. I apologize if this is perceived as a dumb question.
Cheers,
RL
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### Author:  [@mkitti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkitti)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/formatting-julia-code-in-pluto-notebook-cells/97135/2 "2023-04-05T20:42:27Z")
Could you just run JuliaFormatter on the notebook file itself? The notebook is just a normal Julia script.
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### Author:  [@rud-lucien](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rud-lucien)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2023, 8:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/formatting-julia-code-in-pluto-notebook-cells/97135/3 "2023-04-05T20:50:16Z")
Great suggestion…I actually didn’t think about trying that. It wasn’t really the solution I was envisioning in my head, but I tried it and it worked! Thanks for the suggestion.