New to flash...NEED HELP

I am very new to flash and just created a thing and i needed to know what to save it as...casue its only giving me 2 options and i want to view it outside of the Macromedia Flash MX program. plz respond b4 my pc shuts down and i forget how to do it again.

[Man1c M0g]

Errr.... If you want to save the original source, save it as a .FLA file. If you want to view it outside flash though (and that includes in webpages), save it as a .SWF.

I think thats it anyway... I don't use Flash much myself, so thats straight from my dodgy memory...

[LimitLess]

go to File>Export Movie