How to save a MAXQDA 2022 project for MAXQDA 2020
MAXQDA 2020 cannot open the .mx22 format of a MAXQDA 2022 project, but you can save a MAXQDA 2022 project to the .mx20 file format used by MAXQDA 2020.
Open your project file in MAXQDA 2022 and select Save Project As from the Home menu ribbon tab.
![Save a MAXQDA 2020 project for MAXQDA 2018](https://www.maxqda.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/00-EN-save-project-as.png)
In the following dialog windows set the file type to “MAXQDA 2020 Projects (*.mx20)”, enter a file name, select a location to save the project file to, and then click Save.
![Change the file type to MAXQDA 2020 Project Change the file type to MAXQDA 2020 Project](https://www.maxqda.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/00-EN-save-as-mx20.png)
A few elements of MAXQDA 2022 will be changed, because MAXQDA 2020 does not have the functionality to handle new or changed features:
- Text codes in PDF documents are converted to image codes.
- emoticodes in the "List of codes" will become normal codes with the emoticode symbol at the beginning of the code name.
- Memo titles are shortened to 63 characters.
- Code and document summaries in code and document memos are deleted.