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Find Text in Displayed Pages

To find a phrase in the currently displayed page,

  1. Click the Find button . In the resulting Find dialog box, type the word or phrase you are looking for. You can type a partial word, for example, preference to find all occurrences of preference and preferences. Use the check boxes to specify options. Click Find Next.
  1. The search begins at the current cursor position and the page scrolls to the first occurrence of the phrase in the page and highlights it.

  1. To find more occurrences in that page, click Find Next or Find Previous in the Find dialog box, or use the keyboard shortcuts F3 and Shift+F3.
  1. MATLAB beeps when a search for Find Next reaches the end of the page, or when a search for Find Previous reaches the top of the page. If you have Wrap around selected, it continues searching after beeping.

You can change the selection in the Look in field to search for the specified text in other MATLAB desktop tools.

See Search Documentation with the Help Browser for instructions on looking through all the documentation instead of just one page.

Copy Information

To copy information from the display pane, such as code in an example, first select the information. Then right-click and select Copy from the context menu. You can then paste the information into another tool, such as the Command Window or Editor/Debugger, or into another application, such as a word processing application.

Evaluate a Selection

To run code examples that appear in the documentation, select the code in the display pane. Then right-click and select Evaluate Selection from the context menu. The statements execute in the Command Window.

View the Page Source (HTML)

To view the HTML source for the currently displayed page, select View -> Page Source. A read-only HTML version of the page appears in a separate window. You can copy selections from the HTML source and paste them into other tools like the Editor/Debugger or Command Window, or into other applications.


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