Re: Is SharePoint Designer compatible with Office 2003?
- From: Mike Walsh <englantilainen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:05:22 +0300
I have a different answer to Daniel's while agreeing with his basic statement.
Firstly you can install SPD 2007 on the same client machine as Office 2003.
However (and this can be a big however), SPD 2007 is regarded as an Office 2007 level application. We have had many problems reported here that have been caused by clients that have a mixture of Office 2003 level and Office 2007 level applications. In particular security fixes (perhaps added automatically) can replace the correct version of a file for 2007-level apps with the version of the same file for 2003-level apps thus causing the 2007 level app to fail (or work partially only). This can happen in reverse too (2007 fix affecting 2003 apps).
The only way to 100% avoid the risk of this happening is never to mix Office 2003-level apps with 2007-level ones. Note that this means all sorts of apps: FP 2003 is an office 2003-level app; Visio 2003; OneNote 2003 ditto etc. etc.
The other part of the answer is that SPD 2007 doesn't really have much to do with the normal Office apps. You use it for amending SharePoint sites not the Office client products.
Mike Walsh
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sbaig wrote:
We are getting SharePoint Designer installed on test work machines,.
and we wanted to know whether we need Office 2007 installed on the
machines in order for SP Designer to work...? We would prefer not
getting Office 2007 installed, but we weren't sure if SP Designer will
work with Office 2003.
Please advise!
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