Installation guide

Arranging the Desktop
Document Action Overview
Closing documents To close a document, click the Close box in the document’s title bar.
After closing all t he docu m ents in a tool, the tool remains open wit h no
documents in it. If you select the Close box for the tool, all documents
in that tool close.
In the Editor/Debugger, w he n you close a file that has unsaved changes, a
prompt appears asking if you want to save the document. To close a file
without s aving changes and without seeing the save prompt, use Ctrl
whenyouclickthedocument’sClosebox.Seemoredetailsonline.
Moving documents
and tools out
of the desktop
(undocking)
To undock all documents in a tool from the desktop, click the Undock
button
in the tool’s title bar. The tool and its docum ents move outside of
the desktop. See more details online.
To undock a document from its tool, click the Undock button
for the
document. The Undock button is either in the document’s title bar, menu
bar, or toolbar, depending on the document type and whether or not the
document is within the desktop or is in its tool outside of the desktop.
Undocked documents have entries in the Windows task bar (or the
equivalent for your platform).
Docking documents
and tools
When you dock a document, it moves to the position in the to ol that it
occupied before you u ndocked the document. To dock a document, click the
Dock button
in the document’s menu bar. See more details online.
Grouping
documents in a
tool outside the
desktop
To group all of the documents for a tool together outside of the desktop,
undock the tool from the desktop, not just the documents.
If you have already undocked all of the documents and closed the empty
tool that had contained them, select Desktop > Dock All in E ditor,for
example. This moves all the documents into the tool in the desktop. Then
undock the tool.
Saving Desktop Layouts
When y ou end a session, MATLAB saves the desktop layout. The ne xt time
you start MATLAB, the desktop is restored to the way you last had it.
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