Copy things from the documentation

I can no longer copy and paste text from the help browser/documentation. Is this something new in MATLAB 2013a or is it something that could be fixed?

/Tobias

Answer 1

[Tobias Pahlberg]

I have now installed MATLAB R2013b. The documentation looks ok again. But I can still not copy text from it. If I mark some text and right-click, there is no pop-up menu.

Any ideas?

[Image Analyst]

Like I said "Did you try control-insert instead of control-c or right-clicking?" I have 2013b at home and the documentation looks fine but I still need to do control-insert to copy. A pain, I know, but that's the way it is. Hopefully we won't need to do that with R2014a.

[Tobias Pahlberg]

Thanks. I had missed your post. Ctrl+Insert works :)

Answer 2

[Andreas Goser]

I tried and it works for me. Can you be more specific?

I use R2013a on Win7 64 bit, open the doc with "doc plot", used the context menu and clicked "copy"

Answer 3

[Tobias Pahlberg]

That's exactly what I'm doing. But I think that something is wrong with the settings of my documentation. Take a look at this Print screen.

[Andreas Goser]

It looks different than for me - can you give the data about OS etc. I gave?

Answer 4

[Wayne King]

Tobias, It looks like you are encountering this bug from your screen shot:

IE doc bug

As a quick workaround, if you are using MATLAB from a computer with internet access, point your help browser to the web.

In the Help browser's toolbar, click the Preferences icon, and then, under Documentation Location select Web, on mathworks.com.

[Tobias Pahlberg]

I have already tried to point the help browser to the web. It wasn't possible to copy from that either. I use Google Crome as default browser.

When I mark some text and right click I don't get a Copy alternative, the alternatives are:

Back, Forward, Find..., Print, Save as, Page source, Get page address

[Image Analyst]

Did you try control-insert instead of control-c or right-clicking?