# Code prettier should be explicit or fixed.

**URL:** <https://talk.observablehq.com/t/code-prettier-should-be-explicit-or-fixed/4785>\
**Category:** Feedback\
**Created:** [March 15, 2021, 11:08am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/code-prettier-should-be-explicit-or-fixed/4785 "2021-03-15T11:08:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![somethingelseentire](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/somethingelseentire/32/3912_2.png) [@somethingelseentire](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/somethingelseentire)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 11:08am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/code-prettier-should-be-explicit-or-fixed/4785/1 "2021-03-15T11:08:10Z")

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Hey,

I’m constantly struggling with getting prettier to format my cells,  
it would be great if the feature could be made more reliable (hasn’t happened for a couple years now), or simply be made explicit via a shortcut.

Hitting reevaluate repeatedly in the hopes of something changing is a mind numbing waste of time.

Cheers!

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**Author:** ![anjana](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/anjana/32/6090_2.png) [@anjana](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/anjana)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 11:18pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/code-prettier-should-be-explicit-or-fixed/4785/2 "2021-03-15T23:18:02Z")

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Hi @somethingelseentire, thanks for using Observable & for your feedback!

We recently started collecting bug reports & feature requests in this Github repo: [GitHub - observablehq/feedback](https://github.com/observablehq/feedback) - if you’d like to report the bug(s) you’re seeing with Prettier and/or suggestions for how you’d like this feature to behave, please feel free to open an issue there!

Meanwhile, as you’re probably aware, you can disable auto-formatting in your user settings ([https://observablehq.com/settings](https://observablehq.com/settings)) if Prettier is proving more of an annoyance than a help in your notebooks.

Thanks again & hope that helps!