How to start a new document from Home

Steps

1. Click the Home tab at the left of the tab bar, or choose File › Home in the Main menu.

2. Pick a start card. Each opens a new document in its own tab:

   Card	What you get
   Blank drawing	An empty canvas
   Document pages	A printable page, for figures and handouts
   From a template	Schemes and layouts ready to fill
   Animate a mechanism or process	Curved arrows and steps, played as a film
   Interactive problem set	Problems students answer, graded automatically
   Practice arrow-pushing	Mechanism problems with hints, checked as you go. See practice for yourself

   

3. Chose From a template? The Templates page lists reaction schemes, mechanisms and layouts by kind. Click one to start from it, or search with Search templates.

   

4. To get back to older work, look under Recent on Home, or use All files, Starred and Shared with me in the list at the left. Search documents at the top of that list finds a document by name.

Other ways in

• Ctrl+N (New document) starts a new document from anywhere in the desktop app. In a browser, use File › New document.
• Open a file or a picture opens a file from your computer, such as a ChemDraw or MOL file.
• Join a class is for students whose teacher gave them a class code.
• The box at the top of Home takes a request in plain words, for example "Reaction scheme for aspirin synthesis". It opens a new document named after your request and hands the request to the AI assistant, which needs an arbastro account. The chips under the box, such as Draw a mechanism or Just draw, are ready-made starts.