When you have finished working on a design, you can save the design to a file as any of several file types:

• Spread XML
• Excel (BIFF) XLS
• Excel 2007 XLSX
• ODF Document
• Text file

From the File menu, select Save or Save As New and specify a file name, the file type, and the location of the file.

To open an existing file, from the File menu, select Open and select the file from the File dialog, or Open Recent and select the name from the recent files list.

For saving Spread Designer to an XML file, the Spread element contains these elements

• Data
• Presentation
• Settings
• Style

See Also

For more information on the save and open options from the File menu, refer to File Menu.

For details of what is exported to the BIFF-compatible file, refer to the Spread for ASP.NET Import and Export Reference.

If you are using Spread Designer as a stand-alone application, you can save your work to a file before closing Spread Designer. To best preserve all the settings you have created in Spread Designer, save to a Spread XML file when using Spread Designer stand alone.

For information on saving and loading files in general, refer to Managing File Operations.

For more tasks within Spread Designer, return to Using the Spread Designer.