Customer Reviews

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 [Old Version]

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The program is great once you learn to use it. It comes with no guides. The online instructions are a little hard to find and lacking in detail. All of the third party books ("For Dummies") don't come out for months. Does anyone else remember when programs used to come with a "How To" Guide????

I am supposed to use this product to update the web pages monthly for a non-profit organization. After exploring the menus and the manual, I still don't know how and where to start. I usually can figure out in a short time how to use new software however complicated, such as QuarkExpress, InDesign, PageMaker, FrameMaker, Illustrator, Dream Weaver, Front Page, etc., by exploring the menus and the samples with the help of its manual.

The online documentation provided is pitiful. Surely a company with the resources Microsoft has can do better than this?? The product works great, has some nice features, like the workflows, but the provided documentation is a joke, more geared towards selling you microsoft-isms (and that "you don't have to write a line of code!") than telling you how to use their product. And the online help is similarly sparse.

Shortly after I purchased this product I found out that it can be downloaded free from Microsoft. My loss should be your gain. please don't make my mistake. the downloaded product is identical with the exception that no license is required to use it.

Sharepoint Designer is a very useful tool for those looking into Sharepoint design. It is intimidating and will take some time to understand, but it does allow for a very wide range of customization once you know its ins-and-outs.

Microsoft has released Sharepoint Designer free of charge now. So you can save your money and spend it on the much-needed reference guides!

don't buy this. microsoft has released this for free now. just google it. the software pretty good for a free product! i use it for all sorts of websites, not just for sharepoint. i love the fact that you can do "split mode" where you can see the code, and the WYSIWYG.

This has made working with certain parts of Sharepoint development very straight forward. This is a great product if your into web development.

Microsoft distributes SharePoint Designer for free. As mentioned by others, save your money for some books so you can figure out how to use it! This software is not user friendly.

SPD has a steep learning curve, but once mastered, is a powerful tool for manipulating SharePoint. If you've never used custom workflows, read more about it - they can automate a lot of data movement between lists (among other things).

I use Sharepoint Designer 2007 at work and thank goodness they put me through a beginner's class first. I highly recommend it if possible. Sometimes this program has a mind of its own and it can be a real pain to work with but I really enjoy using it. You get used to the craziness.
By the way, using only manuals don't cut it. They gave us one in the beginner's class and if I had just been given that with no hands on training I wouldn't know what I'm doing.