About the File Menu

File New, Open, Browse, Recent Files, Save, Save-As

The Menu Option file, on the left size of the menu, may be clicked to open options. Also, some of the File operations are available on the Home Menu in the File Group.

File Menu

The File Option reveals a left panel as shown below with options:

• New

• Open

• Save

• Save As

• Recent Designs

• Recent Folders

• Browse Drafts (advanced browse with thumbnail images)

• Print

• Export

• Settings

• Close

A list of Recent Designs is listed to the right. In the following Screen Shot, Recent Designs is selected by default. Recent Folders can be clicked to reveal recent folder that have been accessed for saving WIF files.

File Menu

A file refers to a weaving design file. A saved file will have a .WIF extension; in addition another file is saved as a .TWA extension. For more information on file types and naming rules, see xxxxx

Two files are saved for each design. One has the ".wif" extension and the other the ".twa" extension. See File Types used by TempoWeavefor more information.

The File Menu is where new weaving drafts can be started, existing drafts can be opened, files can be saved, renamed and exported.

The recent designs, folders and browse functions provide methods to quickly access weaving designs on your computer, thumb or cloud drive.

In the column under "Open", click to access either recent designs, folders or to open a browse window. If you do not see these options, then the screen is scrolled down where it is showing more designs or folders, simply scroll back to the top to see the options.

File Open

Under Recent Designs, the most 30 recent files are displayed in the right panel. Any weaving design opened or saved is included in the recent designs list. The links can be clicked to open the file.

Under Recent Folders, up to 30 recently used folders are displayed. When clicked, the File Explorer opens to that folder where a design can be selected to open.

Pressing Browse allows navigation to any folder or drive on the computer. The default location starts at the folder that is defined as the default location in the Settings. Once a weaving draft is opened using the Browse function, the recent designs and recent folders are updated accordingly.

If TempoWeave is the default program for opening WIF files, a file can also be opened directly from File Explorer or an attachment in email. More than one design can be opened in TempoWeave at one time. To switch between open files, xxx