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  97. <h1>For the Impatient<a class="headerlink" href="#for-the-impatient" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
  98. <p>When you first launch the Crown Editor and no projects exist, Crown
  99. automatically generates a temporary project and opens it. This lets you
  100. explore the graphical interface immediately without any extra steps.</p>
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  103. a feel for its features, or close the temporary project and create a new one
  104. yourself, for example, starting from a featureful template.</p>
  105. <p>To close the temporary project, choose <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">File</span></code> -&gt; <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Close</span> <span class="pre">Project</span></code>:</p>
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  109. List), or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Close</span> <span class="pre">without</span> <span class="pre">Saving</span></code> to discard it. After closing the temporary
  110. project, Crown opens the Projects List, where you can <a class="reference internal" href="create_new_project.html#create-new-project"><span class="std std-ref">create a new
  111. project</span></a>.</p>
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  113. <p>Tip: If you plan to continue working on what you created during this session,
  114. save the temporary project before closing. If you were just experimenting,
  115. discarding it is fine; you can always start a new project from a template
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