Opening Multiple Spreadsheets in Spread Designer

Overview

You can open more than one spreadsheet at a time in the Spread Designer.
You can open files of various types:

Spread binary file types (typically with .SS2, .SS3, .SS6, SS7, or .SS8 file extensions)
tab-delimited (typically with .TB3, .TB6, TB7, or .TB8 file extensions)
Excel 97or later Excel files (typically with .XLS file extension)
comma separated values (typically with .CSV file extension)
ASCII text files (typically with .TXT file extension)

If the file has any other file name extension, it opens the file as a tab-delimited file.

Tip: If you have saved files using the fpSpread control or other applications to files with different extensions, rename the files using the appropriate default extension to open the files correctly using the Spread Designer.

Notes:

Keep in mind the following if you are using data binding:
- If you run the Spread Designer stand alone, the Spread Designer does not recognize any spreadsheet as being data bound.
- The Spread Designer only recognizes the Spread Designer view as being data bound (see Understanding the Types of Views in Spread Designer).
Spread version 8 can open and read .SS2, .SS3, SS6, and .SS7 files that were created using previous versions of Spread, but all Spread version 8 binary files are saved with the .SS8 extension.

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