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You may have heard, or even read on MSDN, that editing SharePoint 2013 sites with SharePoint Designer 2010 is not supported. You may have also been given an impression that you must use SharePoint Designer 2010 with SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2013 with SharePoint 2013.
Microsoft SharePoint Designer cannot be used to edit web sites on servers different from Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. To edit these sites, you need to use the same version of SharePoint Designer which matches the version of Microsoft SharePoint Server.
Is it possible to connect to SharePoint Server 2010?
When SharePoint Designer 2013 was new, I know for a fact that I used it to connect to SharePoint Server 2010. But it may have been updated, because it’s giving the above error now. Too bad, too. 2013 allows copying and pasting of custom workflow content!
SharePoint Designer 2013 is the tool of choice for the rapid development of SharePoint applications. Please make sure your installation of SharePoint Designer is up to date by using Microsoft Update, or installing Service Pack 1 [see Details for more info].
Click on: Open SharePoint Site, and then simply paste the URL of your site that you want to edit. This will connect to that site and let you navigate all the necessary files and folders of that site, and edit those in accordance.
How to create a subsite in SharePoint Designer?
When you use SharePoint Designer to create a subsite, the initial name assigned to that site is the name of site template that you used to create it. Thus the first thing that you should do is use the summary view page in SharePoint Designer 2010 (Figure 5) to give the site a proper title and optionally add a description.