Add blurb in documentation for

Author: ArBridgeman

doc/user_guide/features/formatting_code/index.rst

@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ experience across projects.
 Nox sessions
 ++++++++++++
 
+.. note::
+    To prevent Python files from being formatted, you can do one of the following:
+        * For a single file, use a comment in the files as described in :ref:`this table <prevent_auto_format>`.
+        * If it is a directory (i.e. ``.workspace``), then you can exclude it by
+          adding it to the ``add_to_excluded_python_paths`` in the project's ``Config``
+          defined in the ``noxconfig.py``.
+
 For autoformatting, the following tools are used:
 
 * `black <https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/the_black_code_style/index.html>`__ -

doc/user_guide/features/formatting_code/troubleshooting.rst

@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ you receive an error from ``project:format`` (i.e. ``isort`` or ``black``), it i
 likely that you need to update your configuration to align with
 :ref:`formatting_configuration`.
 
+.. _prevent_auto_format:
+
 The automatic formatting is doing x, but we shouldn't do that because of y
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 Usually, automatic formatting is helpful, but there are rare cases where a developer