The full suite of Microsoft Products for your business - Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentations, Database and Email.

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Product Description

Microsoft Office 2003 (Professional Edition) represents a major upgrade to previous versions of the world's most popular suite of software applications. Office 2003 includes new and familiar products, features, and functionality that can help organizations and their employees connect to coworkers, information, and business processes quickly and effectively. Advances in intranet collaboration through integration with the collaboration and information-sharing portal, Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, enable employees to access and share information both internally and externally. Support for information rights management (IRM) and industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) provide a platform on which to quickly build cost-effective solutions that can have an immediate impact in your business and productivity.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #70 in Software
• Brand: Microsoft
• Model: 269-06738
• Released on: 2003-10-21
• Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.00" h x 9.80" w x 11.20" l, 3.00 pounds

Features

• Microsoft® Office Professional Edition 2003 is a bundle of the most essential applications: Word 2003 for word processing, Excel 2003 for spreadsheets, PowerPoint 2003 for presentations and Outlook 2003 for e-mail and personal information, Access 2003 database manager, Publisher 2003, an easy to use desktop publishing application
• Integrated Visual Basic for Applications, enabling anything from simple macros to complete custom solutions.

Amazon.co.uk Review
Microsoft's Office Professional 2003 is a bundle of essential desktop applications: Office Word2003 for word processing, Office Excel 2003 for spreadsheets, Office PowerPoint 2003 for presentations, and Office Outlook 2003 for e-mail and personal information. This Professional edition also includes the Office Access 2003 database manager along with Office Publisher 2003, an easy-to-use desktop publishing application. Office applications share a common look and feel, and also benefits from shared components, such as the drawing tools which let you create charts, diagrams and text effects. Another strong point is the integrated Visual Basic for Applications, enabling anything from simple macros to complete custom solutions.

Office has been a highly capable product for years, making it hard for Microsoft to come up with compelling new features. One of the most interesting is Information Rights Management, which lets you restrict document access to specific individuals. This requires a Rights Management Server and is not for casual use, but will be attractive to those with sensitive data. Office Professional 2003 is also underpinned by strong XML support, a powerful feature though mainly of interest to developers. Another aspect is great integration with SharePoint Services running on Windows Server 2003, allowing users to save documents to an internal web site with features like update notification, task lists, and version control. Tablet PC users get built-in support for Ink, letting you add handwritten notes and drawings to Office documents. Those with always-on Internet access will like the updated Task Pane, offering online help and potentially third-party services direct from the Internet. Outlook has been reworked in this edition, with a better interface and more secure email reading. Office Word 2003 is enhanced with a new Reading view, using ClearType technology and automatic page sizing for ease in reading online documents.

Office deserves its position as the leading productivity suite. It's an excellent deal, but makes less sense as an upgrade unless you have a Tablet PC or will make use of the new collaboration, XML or rights-management features. --Tim Anderson

Manufacturer's Description
Microsoft Office Word 2003, the latest version of the best-selling word processor, takes customer experience and feedback to deliver innovations you can use to create impressive-looking documents and help you work better together.

Communicate and Share Information Better. Communicate and Share Information Better Communicate quickly and effectively with othersinternally and across organizations.

Capture and Reuse Information, Bring information into your documents for more timely access to the information you need to make good decisions.

Access Additional Productivity Resources Quickly find the information you need to complete your work.

Microsoft Office Excel 2003 enables you to turn data into information with powerful tools to analyze, communicate, and share results. Microsoft Office Excel 2003 can help you work better in teams, and help protect and control access to your work. In addition, you can work with industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) data to make it easier to connect to business processes.

Capture and Reuse Data Bring key business data into your spreadsheets for more timely access to the information you need to make good decisions.

Share Information with Confidence Work together effectivelyinternally and with other organizationsand help protect against the misuse of sensitive company information.

Increase Productivity Be mobile and access information that can help you create the best spreadsheets possible.

Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 provides an integrated solution for managing and organizing e-mail messages, schedules, tasks, notes, contacts, and other information. Outlook 2003 delivers innovations you can use to manage your communications, organize your work, and work better with othersall from one place.

Manage and Prioritize Your Communication Organize information better to help save time and be more productive.

Let Outlook Do Work for You Outlook can help you get the information you needand block the information you don't needto stay productive.

Work with Others More Easily Work together better and help protect against the misuse and unwanted distribution of key company information.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 includes new tools to help you create, present, and collaborate on presentations that have more impact.

Work Together and Share Presentations with Confidence Now it's easier to collaborate on compelling presentations and share them with others.

Impress Your Audience Use Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 to create exciting slide shows with graphics, animations, and multimediaand make them easier to present.

Access Information at Your Fingertips Find the information you need without having to leave Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003.

Microsoft Office Access 2003 provides a powerful set of tools that are sophisticated enough for professional developers, yet easy to learn for new users. Now everyone in your organization can create or use powerful database solutions that make organizing, accessing, and sharing information easier than ever.

Access and Use Information from Multiple Sources Use information from a variety of formats and programsall in a familiar interface.

Depend on Microsoft Office Access 2003 Reduce errors and get help when you need it.

Share Information with Confidence Design forms and reports that you can save and open in previous versions of Access, making it easier to share your information.

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 is a complete business publishing and marketing materials solution.Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 can help you reach out to customers. With Microsoft Office Publisher 2003, it's easier than ever to design, create, and publish professional marketing and communication materials in-house.

Create Impressive Marketing Materials for Print, Web, and E-Mail. Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 is a comprehensive solution for creating and publishing a wide variety of publications for desktop printing, commercial printing, e-mail distribution, or viewing on the Web.

Work Smarter and Easier with Familiar Office Tools Work productively across Microsoft Office System programs. Publisher 2003 looks and works more like other programs in the Microsoft Office System, making it easier than ever to use the right Office tool for the task, while still making the most of your knowledge and experience with the Microsoft Office System.

Start Easy, Finish Fast Getting started is easier than ever with the simplified Start screen in Microsoft Office Publisher 2003.

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Customer Reviews

Very intuitive, easy to use and produces great results...
I have just upgraded to Office 2007 but find myself still using 2003 Pro.
Why? It's just that good. The layout is by far the best out of all the office products, and the menu driven system allows you to create very professional work with little input. There are even templates and wizards to help you along the way. All the major office programs are here except FrontPage, which most people wouldn't use anyway, unless into web design.

Overall, I have given it 5 stars as it is the best value for money as well as being a very complete office package.

Recommended!

You can get this for £17 from MS - if you work for NHS
Just thought you might like to know, if you have an NHS email - you can order this direct from Microsoft, for shipping charge only. £17. Special deal with Microsoft for NHS employees. It's called their Home Use Programme.[...]

No longer of any value
I've been using Microsoft Office on a professional, daily basis for twelve years (I earn my living by writing, so I "live" in Microsoft Word for extended periods during the day).

But recently I've stopped using Microsoft Office products altogether, for the simple reason that the latest release of OpenOffice is now every bit as good. It uses open-standard file formats, can read/write Microsoft Office file formats, and is built by a reputable company (Sun Microsystems). It can even write Adobe PDF documents - which is very useful. Most remarkably of all, it costs absolutely nothing! It is a completely free download off the Internet from it's own official web site. It's not even a "trial" version - you get the whole thing for free, to keep.

So take a long look at OpenOffice before you spend any money on Microsoft's offering. You'd be mad not to.