# Starting Spread Designer

Discover the various methods to initiate Spread Designer within your Visual Studio .NET project.

## Content



You can start Spread Designer from inside your Visual Studio .NET project by doing one of the following:

*   Right-click on the FpSpread component on your form and choose Spread Designer.
*   Select the component on the form, press F4 to display the **Properties** window, and select the Spread Designer verb at the bottom of the **Properties** window.

You can also run Spread Designer outside of Visual Studio .NET as a stand-alone application. To do so, run the FarPoint.SpreadDesigner.EXE from the product bin folder.

When running Spread Designer in stand alone mode, several options are grayed out and not available to use. These are options that are available with the version that integrates with Visual Studio but are not needed when Spread Designer is run as an independent program.

For more information about Spread Designer, return to the [Introduction to Spread Designer](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-designerguide/spwin-spd-intro).

## See Also

[Overview of Spread Designer Features](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-designerguide/spwin-spd-intro/spwin-spd-oview)

[Getting Started Designing](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-designerguide/spwin-spd-intro/spwin-spd-getstart)

[Simple Example Using Spread Designer](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-designerguide/spwin-spd-intro/spwin-spd-simple)

[Running Spread Designer Stand Alone](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-designerguide/spwin-spd-intro/spwin-spd-standalone)