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name box: The display containing the name of an item. You can move the name box by dragging it with the mouse, and you can edit an item's name by clicking the mouse over the name box. You can also apply configurations to an item's name box. Contrast with attribute display.

natural language prompts: In the Text Editor, the prompts that G2 displays below the edit area to guide you through the statement syntax and available options.

network handle: For item passing, an integer value, obtained by registering any item as a network entity.

no value condition: The condition that results when G2 cannot successfully evaluate an expression. If evaluating an expression produces a no value condition, G2 signals an error. G2 displays a no value condition as the reserved symbol none.

non-KB workspace: A workspace that G2 creates for some specific purpose, but is not saved in the KB. Text Editor workspaces, Operator Logbook pages, and temporary workspaces are examples of non-KB workspaces.

non-menu choices: Operations that G2 performs in response to user actions, including: dragging the mouse, characters entered at the keyboard, and showing, hiding, resizing, and scaling workspaces. Configurations can customize G2's behavior in response to non-menu choices.

non-standard characters: Characters that are not standard characters including: non-alphanumeric characters other than hyphens, underscores, apostrophes, and periods; permanently lowercase letters; and special characters.

normalized scale: The ratio of workspace units per pixel for a G2 process. By default, the current scale of a new workspace is this G2's normalized scale.

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