MATLAB: Is it possible to embed and view PDFs or Word Documents in a GUI, either created using GUIDE or otherwise

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I have a GUIDE-created GUI that I would like to display results, which are in Word Document form, directly inside the GUI. Is this possible in R2017b?

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One option is to open a web browser to display the file:
https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/web.html
If I understand correctly this would have to be a separate window.
On Windows, another option would be to use Activex to talk to Word to tell it to display the document. I think this would need to be a different window.
A third approach is to arrange to have the document print to image and read the image and display it. This could be part of a window but it would not have any controls that you would normally see in a viewer.
Finally, there is the possibility that that you might be able to do this by calling on Java. Uipanel should create a Java canvas I think, and you could potentially tell an appropriate Java routine to render into that canvas. I would recommend looking at undocumentedmatlab.com for more about the lower level interface to Java.
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