Microsoft® Office Programs and SharePoint® Products and Technologies Integration – Fair, Good, Better, Best

SharePoint Integration Features Not Available in Office Standard 2007

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  Initiate document workflows and complete workflow tasks from within the Microsoft Office applications.
  
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  Publish presentations and individual Office PowerPoint 2007 slides to slide libraries for later reuse.
  
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  Publish spreadsheets to Report Center and specify parameters and viewing permissions for spreadsheets and specific cells published to Report Center.
  
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  Create printable labels and barcodes from metadata and insert barcodes and labels into Microsoft Office documents.
  
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  Complete, collect, and organize Office InfoPath 2007 e-mail forms in Office Outlook 2007.
  
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  Host embedded, fully customizable InfoPath forms in Office Word 2007, Office Excel 2007, and Office PowerPoint 2007.
  
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  Complete forms in Programmable Task Panes.
  
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  Complete custom fields and execute custom business logic in Document Information Panel forms.
  

Office FrontPage 2003 vs. Office SharePoint Designer 2007
with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Office SharePoint Server 2007

The following table shows the richness of the integration features of the FrontPage 2003 versus SharePoint Designer 2007 with their respective versions of SharePoint technologies.

Feature	FrontPage 2003	SharePoint Designer 2007
SharePoint site customization Enjoy deep editing support for the technologies underlying SharePoint products, including ASP.NET 2.0, cascading style sheets (CSS), and Windows Workflow Foundation.
ASP.NET master pages Full support for ASP.NET master pages enables you to centralize changes to your site and help ensure a consistent look and feel across multiple pages.
Cascading style sheets Make format and layout changes to entire SharePoint sites simply by editing the master page and modifying the SharePoint CSS. Office SharePoint Designer 2007 includes a CSS task pane for applying and editing CSS rules, a CSS Style Application Toolbar, and a CSS property grid.
Professional-grade design environment Richly interact with a user interface that you can use to open, dock, and undock precisely the combination of task panes you want to help you design your site. Use task panes to identify and manipulate tag properties, CSS properties, and table and cell formats; insert SharePoint and ASP.NET 2.0 controls, and more.
Interact with your data Write information back to data sources, including SharePoint lists, SQL databases, and XML files, using custom form support.
Add business logic to your Workflow Designer Take advantage of the power of Workflow Designer. Set up custom workflow conditions and actions, link them to your SharePoint data, and deploy them with a single click, without installing server code.
Support for interactive ASP.NET pages Office SharePoint Designer 2007 provides the same level of support as Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 for ASP.NET control hosting, property grid editing, insertion from a toolbox palette, and Microsoft IntelliSense technology in Code View.
Site backup and restore Save your site, including all of the pages and SharePoint list data, and restore it on another server.
Contributor settings Exercise more control over your site. Use SharePoint permission levels to define the customization actions each user of Office SharePoint Designer 2007 can perform on your Web site.
Reset to Site Definition Undo changes to the home page, master page, or other server-deployed pages in the site definition using the Reset to Site Definition command.
Error checking Check for broken links, unused pages, cascading style sheets usage, and master page usage.

For a comprehensive comparison between FrontPage 2003 and SharePoint Designer 2007, refer to this Version Comparison webpage. For detailed information about SharePoint Designer 2007, refer to its Product Guide.