Installation guide

4 Help for Using MAT LAB
Example Using Boolean Operators in Search. Type
plot* tools NOT time series
to find all pages that contain the words plot or its variations and tools,but
not the phrase
time series.
More About Search
Thesearetheguidelinessearchuses:
• Insignificant words (a, an, the, of) a re ignored.
• Search is not case sensitive.
• Search only finds letters and digits, but not symbols. To find a symbol,
look for the word (for example,
plus instea d of +), use the Index,or
see O perators and Special Characters in the MATLAB Functions — By
Category. Another option is to search the P DF documentation, which
supports searching for symbols — instructions to access the PDF file are
included in “Printing the PDF Versi on of Documentation” on page 4-42.
• Search find words in comments o r cod e for M-file and Model types demos.
It finds comments in the M-file help for M-GUI demos. It does not search
video demos.
• Ifyousearchforafunctionthatisused in multiple products (called an
overloaded function), the reference pages for all those products are listed.
Use the Product column in Search Results to determine the reference
page you want.
Get Fewer Results
If there a re too many results for the search to be useful, try the following.
Problem Tr y These Suggestions
Too many products Select File > Preferences > Help and enable the product filter for
specified prod u cts. For det ai ls, see “Product Filter” on page 4-37.
Order results by product — click the Product column in Search
Results. If you cannot see the column, make the pane wider.
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