Using the Spread Designer

Spread Designer helps you design your Spread control by letting you see most of the settings you make at the time you make them, and by letting you access settings that you cannot access in Visual Studio at design time. You can use Spread Designer for many aspects of design, including customizing the appearance of your control. You can also load data into the sheets in your control, if you want to do so.

Before you use the Spread Designer, you should be familiar with the "Spread Designer Features". To understand the interface, refer to "Understanding the Spread Designer Interface".

The tasks you can do using Spread Designer are described throughout this guide in the "how-to" instructions provided. The following topics describe some specific tasks you must do in Spread Designer to work with the control and the Designer. Refer to these topics if you have questions while working through tasks described in other sections in this guide.

The following topics describe working inside the Spread Designer.

• Selecting an Item in Spread Designer
• Opening Multiple Spreadsheets in Spread Designer
• Understanding the Types of Views in Spread Designer
• Printing a Sheet in the Active View in Spread Designer
• Previewing the Printed Spreadsheet in Spread Designer
• Saving Files from Spread Designer
• Applying Changes from Spread Designer to the Control

Return to "The Spread Designer" overview.