From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Creating Data-Driven Web Pages

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SharePoint Designer 2010 overview

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From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Creating Data-Driven Web Pages

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SharePoint Designer 2010 overview

If you've used SharePoint for any length of time at all, you'll know there is a lot you can do with it just using a web browser. If you have the right permissions, you can create new pages; you can edit or add new lists or libraries; you can even create new sites directly from the browser. And the pages themselves, I can shift into the Edit mode and just directly change the content of the page. I can grab images or web parts and move them around. I can use the ribbon to do a lot of very powerful formatting options completely within the browser, or even tell it just to forget any changes that I made. But you can't do everything through the browser, and the things that we want to do in this course is going to require SharePoint Designer 2010. Now, while SharePoint 2010 itself is installed on a shared server, SharePoint Designer 2010 is an application that's installed on your own machine. It's a free application that you run on your own desktop or laptop like installing Word or…

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