Before you put too much work into a LayOut document, save it with a unique name and location. To save your LayOut document, follow these steps:

  1. If this is the first time saving your document, select File > Save or File > Save As. Either way, you see a Save LayOut Document dialog box, as shown in the following figure. If you've already saved your document once, selecting File > Save As enables you to save a copy of your LayOut document under a new name, and selecting File > Save simply saves your document without opening a dialog box.
  2. Navigate to the location on your hard drive where you want to save the document.
  3. In the File Name box, type a name for your document.

  4. From the Save As Type drop-down list, leave LayOut Files (*.layout) selected to save in the most current .layout file format. If you need the file to be compatible with an earlier version of LayOut, select that version from the drop-down list.

    Warning: When you save a .layout file as a LayOut 2017 file, the file cannot be partially compatible with Layout 2016 and earlier. 

    Why? Because the persistent IDs that make label and dimension improvements possible don't exist in earlier versions.
  5. Click Save and your LayOut file is saved in the location you selected.

The File menu also has commands for saving templates and scrapbooks. For details about saving templates, see Creating Templates. For an introduction to saving scrapbooks, check out Working with Scrapbooks of Reusable Entities.

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