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Excalidraw: Starting out and Creating a Room

When Starting to out to use Excalidraw your going to want to enter the program you can enter the program at Hugo Cloud and click a icon that looks like sword in a rock.

 

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FromUpon Thereclicking this icon, you shouldwill getbe taken to a page that looks like this.the following:

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On this pagepage, yourlocate gonna want toand click on the button"Create thatRoom" saysbutton. createThis room.action will Then you'll seeprompt a popup window to appear in the middlecenter of your screen, labeled "Create a Room."

Inside the screenpopup, thatyou will be labeled createnotice a room. In the middle of the popup there will betext box that says New room with the default label "New Room" and the words "Room Name" above Room Name.it. In thethis boxbox, indelete "New Room" and enter the middledesired you'llname wantfor to delete new room then type whatever you'll want to call theyour room.

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From there inWithin the middlesame popup, just below the room name you'llve seechosen, a box thatyou will be labeled whatever you called your room. In that there'sfind three ovaloval-shaped youoptions:

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On the same box as those three ovals. There is chain with the words public board link that if you copy it.that you can paste that and send it to anyone you want to join that may not have a Hugo Help account.

On the left of the screen you'll see create a room and another icon that has your room on it there you can create another room and swap between which one room you'll want to go to you simply just have to click on the room you want to be on.