User Guide

In text, pressing Enter inserts a line break.
You can use the basic algebraic operators, such as and , with most
expressions, including polynomials—see Polynomial Algebra (page 126)—and
matrices and vectors—see Linear Algebra (page 135).
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1.5 Editing Expressions and Updat-
ing Output
One important feature of Maple is that your documents are live. That is, you
can edit expressions and quickly recalculate results.
To update one computation:
1. Edit the expression.
2. Press Ctrl + = (Command + =, for Macintosh) or Enter.
The result is updated.
To update a group of computations:
1. Edit the expressions.
2. Select all edited expressions and the results to recalculate.
3. Click the Execute toolbar icon .
All selected results are updated.
To update all output in a Maple document:
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