Once you’ve analyzed and plotted your data or results, the next step is often to add the plot to a report or a paper as a document. In many cases you will need to add explanation and annotations to… read more >>

If you are using MATLAB with a lot of toolboxes and blocksets, there is a lot of documentation available to you in the Help browser. That’s almost always a good thing, but if you’re… read more >>

The various desktop tools that contain documents (the Editor, Array Editor, Figures container, etc) display one document at a time by default. Tiling allows you to see more than one document at a… read more >>

I’ll occasionally contribute to this blog to focus on the data-related tools in the MATLAB Desktop. We provide a lot of tools to help you import, organize, visualize, and explore your data in… read more >>

In the new R2007b version of MATLAB, we’ve improved an existing feature called Help on Selection. Have you ever forgotten the arguments to a function as you’re typing in the Command… read more >>

When you have multiple documents (M-Files in the Editor, variables in the Array Editor, docked Figures, etc) open within a MATLAB desktop tool there is an activation button corresponding to each… read more >>

Despite the lack-luster title of this entry, I assure you that this new feature will be well worth the read, as it addresses one of our most common user requests!
In R2007b, you’ll notice a… read more >>

If you are tired of printing black and white files from the Editor, try setting some pretty printing options. To print the Editor or the Command Window with full color and headers, select the File… read more >>

After you have been writing M-code for a while you gather lots of M-files possibly scattered over many directories. Finding that one piece of text that you are looking for without exactly knowing… read more >>

I recently had a customer ask me how to make his mex files have correct syntax highlighting. He had a file type that was not specified in our default preferences. This is very easy to fix using… read more >>