Maple Features
 Palettes
Maple provides more than 20 palettes containing more than 1000 symbols. Palettes can be used to enter mathematical expressions in your calculations and explanatory text, apply unit information to a quantity, create matrices, and include buttons, dials, and sliders in your document.
Palettes can be expanded, collapsed, reordered, and removed.
Palettes include:
- Expression palette with fill-in-the-blank templates for common mathematical objects, including integrals:
 , sums:  , derivatives:  , and square roots: 
- Common symbols, including π, ∑, and ∞
- Matrix palette for easy matrix and vector creation; enter your values in a template, randomly generate entries, or create identity, zero-, or one-filled matrices, for sizes up to 1000x1000
- Units palettes for SI and FPS (US imperial)
- Relations, such as ≠, ?, and many more
- Operators, including ±, ÷, and ^
- Over 70 different arrows are available
- Negation symbols
- Alphabetical palettes, including Greek, Cyrillic, Script, Fraktur, and other characters
- Interactive embedded components, including buttons, sliders, dials, and gauges
- Handwriting recognition palette, where you can sketch the symbol you need and ask Maple to find it
- Favorites palette for grouping frequently used expressions, symbols, and other palette selections together in one convenient location
Watch a Demonstration
Palettes are used throughout the Maple demonstration movies. In particular, see:
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