Hi, Very new to Maple and am struggling with the basics, despite having read the manual(s). :-/ I want to enter the following expression in 2D Math: (a+b)*(b+c) and get back the following result from Maple: ab+b^2+ac+bc Instead, Maple gives me several different permutations of distributing a and b. I've tried all the "simplify" commands and none of them gives me the b^2. Ideas? Thanks in advance, n