# Distinguish currently executing cell from cells queued for execution?

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**Category:** Notebook\
**Tags:** how-to\
**Created:** [September 12, 2023, 9:34am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/distinguish-currently-executing-cell-from-cells-queued-for-execution/21385 "2023-09-12T09:34:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 9:34am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/distinguish-currently-executing-cell-from-cells-queued-for-execution/21385/1 "2023-09-12T09:34:39Z")

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Hi,  
how do I distinguish the currently executing cell from other cells queued for execution.  
All of them just have [\*] in their box so if they aren’t in top to bottom order I can’t tell which one is executing right now unless I remembered the order.

Thanks for your answer

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**Author:** ![krassowski](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/krassowski/32/1685_2.png) [@krassowski](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/krassowski)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 7:48pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/distinguish-currently-executing-cell-from-cells-queued-for-execution/21385/2 "2023-09-12T19:48:19Z")

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[`jupyterlab-execute-time`](https://github.com/deshaw/jupyterlab-execute-time) might be one way of doing this.