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<td><h1>First Steps Tutorial</h1>
<p>A short tutorial showing you the basic usage of KeePass.</p></td>
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<p>This short tutorial shows you how to use KeePass. It describes only the
basic usage, advanced features are covered on separate pages.</p>
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<p><b>Creating a new database</b></p>
<p>The very first step is creating a new password database. KeePass will store all
your passwords in such a database. To create one, click 'File' → 'New...'
in the main menu or click the leftmost toolbar button.
A window will appear, which prompts you for a master password and/or key file.
The database will be encrypted with the password you enter here. The password
you enter here will be the only password you will ever have to remember from now
on. It should be long and built up of mixed characters. Keep in mind that when
someone gets your database file and guesses the password, he could access all
passwords you stored in the database.</p>
<p>For this tutorial, we just use a password, not a key file.
Click into the password edit field and enter a password of your choice.
The password edit control is not limited in length, so feel free to even enter
a whole sentence (just keep in mind that you need to remember it).</p>
After clicking [OK], a second dialog appears. In this dialog you can configure
some generic database properties. For now, just leave everything as it is and
click [OK].
<p>Now you see the main window. On the left, you see the entry groups. On the
right, you see the actual password entries. The password entries are
grouped together into the password groups you see on the left. So, depending
on which group on the left you selected, it shows you the entries in this group
in the right view. KeePass has created a few default groups for you, but you
are free to delete them and create your own ones.</p>
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<p><b>Adding an entry</b></p>
<p>Time to store your very first password in the KeePass database! Right-click
into the right password entry view and choose 'Add Entry...'. A window
will pop up. In this window you can now edit your entry: enter a title for
it, a user name, a URL, the password, etc. If you do not need some of the
fields, just leave them empty. When you are done, click [OK].</p>
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<p><b>Using entries</b></p>
<p>Your new entry is displayed in the
<a href="usingpws.html#mainlist">main entry list</a> now.
There are various ways how you can use it.</p>
<p>For example, you can copy the user name of the entry into the clipboard.
In order to invoke the 'Copy User Name' command, double-click onto the
user name cell in the main entry list.
Alternatively, the command can be invoked via the main menu,
the context menu, the toolbar button, or by pressing
<kbd><kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>B</kbd></kbd>.
When the user name is in the clipboard, you can paste it into the
target window.</p>
<p>Copying passwords and other fields works analogously.</p>
<p>Alternatively, you can drag&drop fields into other windows.
For details, see <a href="usingpws.html#dragdrop">Drag&Drop</a>.</p>
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<p><b>Saving the database</b></p>
<p>It is time to save your database. Click onto the 'Save' toolbar button
(which has a disk icon).<!-- As you are saving the database the
first time, you now have to specify a location
where you want the database file to be stored. --></p>
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<p><b>More</b></p>
<p>That is it! You have made the first steps in using KeePass!
You can now have a look at the more advanced features of KeePass.</p>
<p><a href="keys.html">Passwords and Key Files</a>: In the tutorial above,
we have encrypted the database using a password. However, KeePass also supports
key files, i.e. you can lock your database using a file (which you can carry
around on your USB stick for instance).
It even supports combining those two methods for maximum security.</p>
<p><a href="tans.html">TAN Entries</a>: TAN entries are one-time passwords. Many
banks are using TANs for better security. KeePass supports TAN entries, by
making them expire automatically when using them.</p>
<p><a href="autotype.html">Auto-Type</a>: The auto-typing functionality is a very
powerful feature. In the tutorial above, you have copied the user name and password
of an entry to the clipboard. Wouldn't it be nice if KeePass would just type
those strings for you into other windows? Wouldn't it be nice if you could define
whole sequences of keypresses that KeePass should type for you? That is exactly
what the auto-type feature does: it sends simulated keypresses for you to
other windows!</p>
<p><a href="autourl.html">URL Field</a>: The URL field supports URLs
of course. In the tutorial, you have learned that you can enter simple URLs into
this field and KeePass will open the browser window for you. However, the URL field
can do more! It actually supports many different protocols (not just <code>http</code>)
and supports executing
Windows command lines through the <code>cmd://</code> virtual protocol. The
field also features a powerful substitution engine, replacing codes
by other fields (user name, password, ...) of this entry.</p>
<p><a href="cmdline.html">Command Line Parameters</a>: You can open .kdb(x) files by
passing the file name to the KeePass executable file. However, did you know that you can
also send the password for the database and key file location over the command line?
You can also use the command line to preselect a key file for you.</p>
<p><a href="../v2/plugins.html">Plugins</a>:
KeePass features a powerful plugin architecture.
If you miss some functionality, have a look at the plugins page to see if there
are other people that have already written plugins for this. Many plugins exist
to import/export data from/to other file formats.</p>
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