How do I get a figure to open in the currently used Matlab window?

I have the issue of Matlab opening again whenever I open a .fig or .m file outside of the Matlab program. I have had three Matlab prompts running when I was trying to open two .fig files to compare with a plot that I had finished. As a note, I am running MATLAB 7.11.0 (R2010b).

[Walter Roberson]

To confirm: you want to be able to click on .fig and .m files in Windows Explorer, and have those files open inside the existing MATLAB session if there is an existing session?

If so then I know people have asked about that before, but I do not recall the solution.

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

To avoid the problem, open your files from Matlab