MATLAB: How to have the MATLAB Notebook document open the most recent version of MATLAB installed on the computer

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When I have two versions of MATLAB installed on my system, and I try to open an MATLAB Notebook document created in the older of the two versions, the older version of MATLAB is instantiated.

Best Answer

To have a particular version of MATLAB start when you open a MATLAB Notebook document, execute the command
notebook('-setup')
in the version of MATLAB that you wish to use.
If this does not resolve the issue, then follow the steps outlined below:
1. In Windows, search for all files named m-book.dot
2. Except for the m-book.dot file located in $MATLABROOT\notebook\pc (where $MATLABROOT is the MATLAB root directory on your machine, as returned by typing "matlabroot" in the command prompt), delete all other occurrences of m-book.dot. Note: since there may be more than one version of MATLAB installed on your machine, ensure that you do not delete the m-book.dot file from any of the MATLAB installation directories, as you will then need to reinstall MATLAB to recover the m-book.dot files.
3. Start the version of MATLAB that you want to open when you double-click on a MATLAB Notebook document file.
4. Execute the following command:
notebook('-setup')
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