# Importing excel designs **URL:** \ **Category:** Experiments\ **Tags:** excel\ **Created:** [13 February 2023 18:36 UTC](https://forum.surveyengine.com/t/importing-excel-designs/100 "2023-02-13T18:36:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Freddo](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.surveyengine.com/freddo/32/55_2.png) [@Freddo](https://forum.surveyengine.com/u/Freddo)\ **Post date:** [13 February 2023 18:36 UTC](https://forum.surveyengine.com/t/importing-excel-designs/100/1 "2023-02-13T18:36:07Z")
How can we import the experimental design from xls? And Ngene? ---
**Author:** ![benno](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.surveyengine.com/benno/32/3_2.png) [@benno](https://forum.surveyengine.com/u/benno)\ **Post date:** [13 February 2023 22:55 UTC](https://forum.surveyengine.com/t/importing-excel-designs/100/2 "2023-02-13T22:55:14Z")
Udner the Experiment Editor-\>Design select import design and you will be able to upload your design as an excel spreadsheet. A helped download will help organise the columns in the correct order. ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/surveyengine/original/1X/4ff54437979b4b72c0f32b2296d01d11c78699f2.png) ---
**Author:** ![amz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/65b543/32.png) [@amz](https://forum.surveyengine.com/u/amz)\ **Post date:** [5 April 2025 14:33 UTC](https://forum.surveyengine.com/t/importing-excel-designs/100/3 "2025-04-05T14:33:12Z")
Hello, I am trying to import a design produced by Ngene, I copied the output, changed the levels into 0,1,2,…and copied them to the template (the only difference is that some attributes do not apply to all choices, so I tried leaving the columns blank, but also removing them). I tried several times, but the file is not imported, is there anything I can do? The elements in the cells are ‘numbers’, and i followed all of the other rules, but still no success. Is there a trick I am missing? Thanks