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Chapter 1: Exploring SharePoint Designer
As you make changes in the Design pane, you can immediately see the effect on your code. The reverse
is not true. Changes you make as you are editing code are not visible in the Design pane right away. You
must act to indicate to SharePoint Designer that you are done with your edits, such as by clicking in the
Design pane or saving your file, before the edits are reflected, because while you are editing in the Code
pane, much of the time your markup may be in a transitional state that does not have a valid rendering.
By waiting until you explicitly select the Design view, SharePoint Designer helps avoid the confusion
that can result from page elements jumping all over the place as the rendering engine tries to make sense
of the invalid markup.
Toolbars and Task Panes
SharePoint Designer is a versatile, powerful application. Helping you control that power and versatility
is the province of the toolbars and task panes. SharePoint Designer proffers 11 toolbars (not counting the
menu and any custom toolbars you may create), and no fewer than 24 task panes! Each toolbar or task
pane controls a related set of functions. Earlier in the chapter, you were introduced to the Layout Tables
task pane and the Common toolbar. The following sections briefly discuss these, as well as the other
various toolbars and task panes, and how to manage them.
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