1. Open up your Blogger Dashboard. Click on the little drop down menu that the red arrow is pointing to:
![blogger_dashboard_newplatform](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8322/7974638623_252243fd61_z.jpg)
It will open up this drop down menu:
![blogger_dashboard_dropdownmenu](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8452/7974638088_2b4d0cc459_z.jpg)
This will bring you to your settings basic menu, which looks like this:
![blogger_dashboard_settings](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8302/7974637866_934a9489a7_z.jpg)
3. Click on OTHER in the settings menu (down in the bottom left corner of your screen) This is what the screen should look like:
![blogger_exportblog2](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8175/7974638137_759da3eeda_z.jpg)
4. Click on EXPORT BLOG
It should pop up this window when you click on export
![blogger_export_download](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8178/7974637786_e0d07d169a_z.jpg)
5. Click DOWNLOAD BLOG
It will bring you to this pop up save file window:
![blogger_export_savefile2](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8176/7974637646_70582a69f5_z.jpg)
6. Click save file.
I usually rename my file once it's saved, generally including the date and my blog's title (ie: ADollopofMyLife_09-10-12.xml) An xml file is simply a code file that backs up all of your blog's information to that date. Don't freak if you try to open it on your computer and it just looks like a bunch of jibberish.,. it's supposed to look that way :) This file can be used to IMPORT a blog (as seen on step 3 above) back into Blogger, or to be used if you are converting your blog to a different platform. Let me know if you have any questions!