MatLab Keyboard Shortcuts

The equivalent of double-clicking. Enter performs the default action for a selection. For example. press Enter while a statement in the Command History window is selected to run that statement in the Command Window.For buttons in tools and dialog boxes. Enter executes the default button (the button with a border around it). If there is no default button. press the space bar to execute the active button(the button with a dotted outline inside it).

Advances to the next button or field in a tool or dialog box. In the Command Window. completes a statement if the tab completion preference is selected.

Use these keys on the numeric keypad to expand and collapse items in tree views. The Help browser Help Navigator pane and the Command History window use tree views. Use to expand the selected item. use - to collapse the selected item. and use * to recursively expand it. meaning open all items contained in the selected item.

Provides access to the current directory field in the toolbar (except on Macintosh platforms).

Moves to the previous open tool or group of tabbed tools in the desktop.

Moves to the previous tool within a group of tools tabbed together.In a group of documents. moves to previous document.

Moves to the previous tool or document (only for Windows and Solaris platforms).