saved changes on pre-game editor won't load into new games-stuck with original database

[hulkius]

Excuse my ignorance/stupidity I'm a newbie and I've never tried to use the editor before on any of the versions of FM I've played.

As a test before I started anything major, I have made some simple changes to a few players (changing place of births/nationalities etc), to see if it worked OK and loaded up into the game play properly.

However, when I start a new game these changes do not load up into the game and I am left with the original database and no changes.

What am I doing wrong?

I'm presuming I'm either not saving the changes properly, or not loading the changed database correctly.

Very basic issue, but I can't get it.

Thank you for any help anyone can provide