Development Environment

Viewing the Contents Listing in the Help Browser

To list the titles and table of contents for all product documentation, click the Contents tab in the Help Navigator pane.

In the Contents listing, you can:

• Click the + to the left of an item to expand the listing for the item.
• Click the - to the left of an item, or double-click the item to collapse the listings for that item.
• Select an item to show the first page of that document or section in the display pane.
• Double-click an item to expand the listing for that item and show the first page of that document or section in the display pane.
• Use the down and up arrow keys to move through the list of items.

The Contents listing shows documentation for all products installed on your system, or only shows documentation for specified products if you have the Product filter set to Selected.

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 points to the key documentation for that product and provides links to:

• An index of documentation examples for that product
• The PDF version of the documentation, which is suitable for printing

Product Pages

After expanding the listing for a product in the Contents pane, the last entry is Product Page (Web). This allows you to link to the MathWorks Web site for latest information about that product.

Contents Pane Is Synchronized with Display Pane

By default, the topic highlighted in the Contents pane always matches the title of the page appearing in the display pane. The Contents listing is said to be synchronized with the displayed document. This feature is useful if you access documentation with a method other than the Contents pane, for example, using a link in a page in the display pane. With synchronization, you always know what book and section the displayed page is part of.

You can turn off synchronization. To do so, use preferences - see General - Synchronizing the Contents Pane with the Displayed Page.

Note that synchronization only applies to the Contents pane. The page shown in the display pane does not necessarily correspond to the selection in the Search, Index, or Favorites tabs.

Using the Product Filter

Finding Documentation Using the Index