M-Books - A Guide to MATLAB for Beginners and Experienced Users - page 93

In other instances, you may not notice any prompt for Word information
during installation. This can mean that your computer found the Word
executable and template information and set up the associations automat-
ically; or it can mean that it ignored the M-book configuration completely.
In either eventuality, it is best, after installation, to type notebook -setup
from the Command Window. Follow the ensuing instructions, which will be
essentially the same as in the first possibility described in the last paragraph.

Starting M-Books

The most common way to start up the M-book interface is to type notebook
at the Command Window prompt. This is the only way to start the M-book
interface if it is your first foray into the venue. After you type notebook ,
you will see Microsoft Word launchand a blank Word document will fill your
screen. We will refer to this document as an M-book. The difference between a
blank M-book and a normal Word document is only apparent if you peruse the
menu bar. There you will see an entry that is not present in a normal Word
document — namely, the Notebook menu. Click on it and examine the menu
items that appear. We will describe each of them and their functions in our
discussion below. If this is not your first experience with M-books, and you
have already saved an M-book, say under the name Problem1.doc , then you
can open it by typing notebook Problem1.doc at the Command Window
prompt. Even though you may not see it, the MATLAB Command Window is
alive, but it is hidden behind the M-book.
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On some systems, you may see a DOS command window appear after
typing notebook , but before the M-book appears. We recommend
that you close that window before working in the M-book.

For M-books to work properly, you need to have “Macros Enabled” in your
Word installation. If an M-book opens as a regular Word document, without
M-book functionality, it probably means that macros have been disabled. To
enable them, first close the document (without saving changes), then go to
Tools : Macro : Security... from the Word menu bar, and reset your security
level to Medium or Low. Then reopen the M-book.

An alternate, and on some systems (especially networked systems) a
preferable, launchmethod is first to open a previously saved M-book —
either directly through File : Open... in Word or by double-clicking on the
file name in Windows Explorer. Word recognizes that the document is an
M-book, so automatically launches MATLAB if it is not already running. A