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Adding how to open a project when a project is already openend
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ahus1 committed Nov 13, 2022
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A project is usually either a single folder on the local disk, or a remote Git repository.
While a project can xref:features/advanced/multimodule.adoc[consist of multiple local folders], this is an advanced case which is possible but not recommended for users new to IntelliJ.

This dialog shows the startup screen when IntelliJ is started for the first time.

image::technical-writing/intellij-first-start.png[]

In this dialog, the user has the following options:

New Project:: Choose a name and a local folder where to create the project.
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This view will then contain a list of previously opened projects.
The buttons for a new project, to open a folder and to get sources from VCS are in the upper row (smaller, and still with the same name as before).

The same options are also available when a project is open from the menu via menu:File[New,Project...], menu:Project from Existing Sources...[] and menu:Project from Version Control...[].

== Further reading

Continue to xref:./editor-the-file-asciidoc-file.adoc[] for the next step of this series.

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