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The Help browser is an HTML browser integrated with the MATLAB® desktop. Use the Help browser to search and view documentation and demonstrations for MATLAB and all other installed MathWorks™ products. MATLAB automatically installs the documentation and demos for a product when you install that product.
To open the Help browser, click the Help button
in the desktop toolbar,
type helpbrowser in the Command
Window, or use the Help menu in any tool.
There are two panes:
The Help Navigator, on the left, for finding information, includes a Search for field, and Contents, Index, Search Results, and Demos tabs. For more information, see Finding Information with the Help Browser.
The display pane, on the right, for viewing documentation and demos.
To adjust the relative width of the two panes, drag the separator bar between them. You can also change the font in either of the panes — see Help Fonts and Colors Preferences.
Once you find the documentation you want, you can close the Help Navigator pane so there is more screen
space to view the information itself. This is shown in the following
figure. To close the Help Navigator pane, click the Close box
in the pane's upper right corner. To open the Help Navigator pane from the display pane, click the Help
Navigator button
on the toolbar. Alternatively, use
the View menu.
The Help browser and help functions provide access to the following types of information for all installed MathWorks products. The icons shown here appear in the Help browser contents listing to help you quickly identify documentation by type.
You can access all product documentation on the MathWorks Web site at http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/helpdesk.html. These are some uses for the Web site version of the documentation:
Access documentation for the most current version. If you do not see the information you are looking for in the Help browser and know you are not running the most current version of MATLAB, the most current version of the documentation, which is on the Web site, might include more information. Note, though, that the documentation on the Web site might refer to features that are not part of your earlier-version product.
Access documentation for a prior version of some products (Release 13 with Service Pack 2). Note that the release notes on this page include release notes for multiple prior versions. For example, you can find information about MATLAB Version 6.0 (Release 12) new features and changes.
Access documentation via your system Web browser, such as when you are not running MATLAB or if you prefer your system Web browser.
To determine the URL for a page in the Help browser, see View the Page Location
PDF documentation is available only on the Web site.
You cannot read MATLAB documentation files from the installation media for MATLAB. You also cannot use a Web browser to read the documentation files installed with MATLAB because the files are compressed JAR files.
You can add your own HTML help files so that they appear in the Help browser. For details, see Adding Your Own Toolboxes to the Development Environment in the HTML documentation (in the Help browser, or on the Web site).
The MathWorks documentation is available in English. Japanese versions of MATLAB include documentation that has been translated into Japanese. For more information, go to http://www.cybernet.co.jp/matlab.
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