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In Beamer, \begin{itemize}[<+->] causes items to appear one-by-one. However, item 1 is visible starting from the first slide itself. Is there a way to insert a pause before the first item too?

of course I can manually type

\item<2-> first
\item<3-> second

but is there a shortcut way to specify this?

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You could put an explicit \pause before the itemize environment. Would that suffice? –  Andrew Stacey Aug 15 '12 at 15:35
Hey, thanks! That works. For some reason, I thought pause was only allowed before \item –  Neha Karanjkar Aug 15 '12 at 16:50
If you write the comment as an answer ill accept –  Neha Karanjkar Aug 15 '12 at 16:51
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Simply write \pause before the itemize environment. This will achieve the effect you want.

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