# Saving and Opening Design Files

Learn how you can save and open design file using the Spread Designer. Learn more in documentation.

## Content



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
*   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

For more information on the save and open options from the **File** menu, refer to [File Menu](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-asp/overview/spweb-devguide/spweb-spdesigner/spweb-SDInterface/spweb-SDMenus/spweb-SDMenu-File).

For details of what is exported to the BIFF-compatible file, refer to the [Import and Export Reference](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-asp/overview/spweb-importexportref).

For more tasks within Spread Designer, return to [Using the Spread Designer](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-asp/overview/spweb-devguide/spweb-spdesigner/spweb-SDUse).

## See Also

[Managing File Operations](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-asp/overview/spweb-devguide/spweb-fileops)