Desktop Tools and Development Environment

Finding Information with the Help Browser

Use the Help Navigator, the left pane in the Help browser, to find information. These sections describe the main features:

• Contents Listing in the Help Browser--View an expandable table of contents for the documentation.
• Index for the Help Browser--Use keywords to find information.
• Search Documentation with the Help Browser--Find documentation using full-text and other forms of search.
• Favorites--Bookmark pages you want to refer to again.

Contents Listing in the Help Browser

To list the documentation titles and tables of contents for products you installed, click the Contents tab in the Help Navigator pane. To show documentation for only some of the installed products, use the product filter.

Product Roadmap

When you select a product in the Contents pane (any entry with a book icon ), such as MATLAB or the Communications Toolbox, a roadmap of the documentation for that product appears in the display pane. The roadmap includes links to commonly used documentation sections, including

• Function and block references pages
• An index of major examples in the documentation
• The PDF version of the documentation, which is suitable for printing (this is the only direct access from MATLAB to the printable documentation)

Accessing Documentation on the Web

Navigate the Contents Listing

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