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When you launch InDesign CS4 for the first time, you're screen is going to look something like this. This is the Welcome Screen. Alright, it will look a little bit differently for the simple reason that you're not going to have the same document available to you that I have here. So let's start over here in the left-hand side. Open a recent document. These are the most recent documents I have had open. Or I can go in and open an existing document. Here I come into the Operating System Dialog Box and I can just go through and navigate to the file that I want to open. If you don't want to open an existing document but I want to open a new document, you can go to Create New. Here you've got a choice; create a new document. That's a simple document. That's the one you're going to use most of the time; a new book. A book is a way of having a series of documents associated with each other and we get into that a little bit later on in the tutorial. It's one of the advanced features and is perfect for long documents. A library is a series of items that you use over and over again. For example, a series of logos or photographs that you always use. You can create a library and it makes access to them very easy. And you can open from template. I'm just going to click in this one because this is going to open Adobe Bridge. Again, that's something we do look at a little bit later. I already had it opened. That's why it opened so fast. It'll probably take a little bit longer the first time you do it. And here are some built-in templates that you can use that InDesign packages with the program. You want to open a brochure, you can double click in the brochures and here you can pick in one of these templates, blow it up so that you can see what it looks like; good idea starters if you want to use them. I'm just going to minimize these for the time being and I'm going to take a look at some of these other options. InDesign Exchange and User Groups and all the other items down at the bottom are online so you do need an Internet connection in order to access these. I'll go to User Groups. It opens up the browser and connects to the InDesign User Group Page and there you can look for a user group in your area and check out some of the different resources that are available to you, maybe upcoming meetings or you can go over and see what podcasts are available to you. Let me just go back to InDesign quickly and here you can see InDesign partners, plug-ins, InDesign Exchange for ideas. Getting Started and New Features are similar web-based features here and if we go here you can see all the new productivity enhancements and then the text and table improvements. Of course, we're going to be getting involved in these as we go through this tutorial. Down here you can go to Adobe Bridge Home and find out latest tips and podcasts again. So this is the basic Welcome Screen that you'll see when you come in. Now, things like Open Recent and Create New are also available from the File Menu. Here we have Open Recent and here we have ten documents. There are only eight here, so this contains a few more and if you want a new document, you've got a New Document, Book, Library, Document from Template. They're in a different order but they're basically the same thing. If you don't want to see this when you start, just turn this off here. Don't show this again. And let me just open a new document, click in OK and then when I close this document out like that, the Welcome Screen doesn't show up. However, if I want it back again, I can go to the Help Menu, Welcome Screen, turn this Off. That way if I create a new document like this, turn it Off, the Welcome Screen comes back up there for me. So that's the basics of the Welcome Screen and in the next movie we're going to take a look at the InDesign interface.