SharePoint Designer 2007 provides the professional-quality design tools you need to create great-looking SharePoint pages that are compatible with a wide range of browsers. Enjoy an intuitive design experience through a high-quality what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) editor, format SharePoint pages quickly using cascading style sheet (CSS) tools, and easily change the layout and format of your site through full support of ASP.NET master pages.

Automate business processes such as document approval, custom event notification, and other collaboration tasks with the Workflow Designer.

Create reporting and tracking applications using data views and forms to easily gather and aggregate data from outside your site and from SharePoint lists and document libraries on the Web site.

Get started fast with pre-built Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Application Templates, which are fully customizable and extensible using Office SharePoint Designer 2007.

Extend your solutions by building advanced interactive Microsoft ASP.NET pages. Insert and edit controls with the same powerful activity menus and control property grid previously found only in development tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

500 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher

256 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher1

1.5 gigabyte (GB); a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive

1024x768 or higher resolution monitor

Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, or later operating system