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.