Notes on the Maple Worksheet Interface

© 2000 Seattle Central Community College. Reproduced with permission

Creating a new command line

There are several ways to do this.
a quick keystroke : Ctrl-J ,
or click on the button: [> in the toolbar at the top of the screen ,
or use the Menu: Insert / Execution Group > After Cursor

Creating a new text region

The easiest way to do this is to first create a new command line as described above and then convert it to a text region.
To convert to a text region do any one of the following:
a quick keystroke : Ctrl-T
or click on the button: T in the toolbar at the top of the screen.
or use the Menu : Insert / Text Input

Semicolon vs. Colon

End a command line with a semicolon (;) to execute the line and display the result as blue output or a graph. Alternatively suppress the display of output by ending the line with a colon (:).

Opening and closing sections

Click on + button to open a section. The button changes to - . Click on - to close a section.
Quick close with space bar : To close a section if the button has scrolled off the screen without having to scroll back up to find it, click on section line at left to make it a double line then press Space Bar.

Moving through a worksheet

Use the vertical scrollbar on the right or up/down arrow keys. If you press [Enter] when you are on a command line Maple executes the line and then the cursor automatically moves to the next command line.

How to remove all output from the worksheet

Use the Menu: Edit / Remove Output > From Worksheet

Expanding or Collapsing all Sections

Use Menu: View / Expand All Sections (or Collapse All Sections)

Creating a New File/ Saving a File / Opening an Existing File

Use Menu : File / New , Open , Save , Save As (standard Windows file management)

Cutting and pasting

Standard Windows editing: cut, copy and paste available from Menu : Edit / Copy or Paste

or use buttons on Toolbar.

Using the Help system

To get quick help on a particular command: click on the command and press the F1 key . A Help page for that command will appear. To close the Help page when you are done reading it use the Menu : File , Close Help Topic
Maple's Help system is quite elaborate. To learn more about it from the Menu choose: Help / Using Help

Execution groups with more than one command

To include more than one command in a single execution group use:

SHIFT - ENTER instead of ENTER at the end of each command line.

Instead of executing one command at at time:

> a:=4;

> b:=7;

> c:=8;

>

We can execute three commands at once:

> a:=4;
b:=7;
c:=8;

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