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Grouping (Tabbing) Tools Together

You can group tools so that they occupy the same location in the MATLAB desktop, and then access the individual tools via tabs:

To group (also called "to tab") tools together,

  1. Drag the title bar of one tool in the desktop on top of another tool in the desktop.
  1. The outline of the tool you are dragging overlies the target tool, and the bottom of the outline includes a tab.

    Image of Command History being dragged on top of Command Window.

  1. Release the mouse.
  1. Both tools occupy the same space and labeled tabs appear at the bottom of that space.

    Image of Command Window and Command History tabbed together.

To view a tabbed tool, click the tool's tab. The tool moves to the foreground and becomes the currently active window.

When you click the Close box  for a tool that is part of a group of tools tabbed together, that tool closes. You cannot close all the tabbed tools at one time; instead close each tool individually.

Right-click a tab and use the context menu to close or undock the tool.


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