Office Professional Edition 2003

Improve the Way You Work with Others
Work better with others and get more done in less time with Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 paired with Microsoft Windows® SharePoint™ Services. More easily share ideas and create compelling files—even if your colleagues are scattered across different locations.

Work Together on Files More Effectively
Improve collaboration by using Document Workspaces. Teams can share and edit files, communicate in real time with instant messaging, assign tasks and deadlines, and easily review the status of a project—all from a central location that team members can access on an intranet or through the files themselves.
Note Document Workspaces, the Shared Workspace task pane, and Meeting Workspaces require Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 running Windows SharePoint Services.

View Related Information About a Shared File
Work on files more effectively with the Shared Workspace task pane, available when you open files attached to a Document Workspace. The task pane displays the online status of team members, a list of tasks related to the file, links to related sites and files, and other information to help you work on a file.
Note. The Shared Workspace task pane is available in Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Office Excel 2003, Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2003, Microsoft Office OneNote™ 2003, Microsoft Office Project 2003, and Microsoft Office Visio® 2003.

Coordinate Meetings Online
Don't waste your meeting time getting everyone on the same page. Use a Meeting Workspace to plan, prepare, and follow-up on meetings. You can store meeting agendas, relevant files, visual resources, and other information in a central location that meeting participants can access online.

Help Protect Your Files
Help control access to and protect vital business information with support for information rights management (IRM) in Office Professional Edition 2003. Use IRM to help prevent and limit others from using your files in unintended ways.
Note. IRM requires Windows Server 2003 running Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS). IRM is available in Word 2003, Excel 2003, Outlook 2003, and PowerPoint 2003.

Help Keep Confidential E-Mail Communications Secure
Help protect sensitive files and e-mail messages from unauthorized access and use. Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003 with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 can help reduce the risk of having confidential e-mail messages and attachments fall into the wrong hands, whether by accident, thoughtlessness, or malicious intent.

Work Together on Documents in a Structured, Consistent Way
Receive the feedback you need and delegate team feedback by using Editing restrictions and Formatting restrictions in Word 2003. Set restrictions on who can change parts or all of a document, and enforce a specific style to produce documents with a consistent appearance.

Create Compelling Print Marketing Materials
Produce professional-quality brochures, newsletters, postcards, marketing e-mail, and other marketing materials in-house with Microsoft Office Publisher 2003. Powerful design tools and familiar Office features can help you quickly design materials from scratch or from a template, even if you've never before used Microsoft Publisher.

Manage Information More Efficiently
Improve your e-mail experience with Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003, which has been redesigned to make it easier to find, organize, and act on e-mail messages. The larger Reading Pane and improved Navigation Pane can help you read e-mail messages more quickly, keep track of messages that require follow-up, and consolidate related messages.

Organize and Prioritize New E-Mail Messages
No need to wade through your Inbox for specific messages. Find information more quickly by arranging your Inbox messages by a range of criteria, such as subject, date, conversation, and size. You can also keep track of your priority or time-sensitive messages using color-coded Quick Flags.

View Related E-Mail Messages in One Place
Save time finding and filing e-mail messages with Search Folders, which provide an automated way to view all messages related to a subject, person, or other criteria. You can view all related messages in one folder—even if they are stored in different places—without having to move messages to keep organized.
Note. Search Folders require a connection to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.

Keep Junk E-Mail Messages Out of Your Inbox
Help prevent unwanted junk e-mail messages—or spam—from reaching your Inbox using new and improved features in Outlook 2003, including an enhanced Junk E-Mail Filter. Learn more about how to prevent junk e-mail messages with Outlook 2003.

Prevent Junk E-Mail Messages from Reaching You
Keep your Inbox free from less clutter and help protect your computer with new tools in Outlook 2003 that filter and block unsafe attachments. The Junk E-Mail Filter analyzes e-mail content and moves unwanted messages to a special folder, where you can find and manage them later.

Take Charge of Your Inbox
Have more control over which messages reach your Outlook 2003 Inbox. To receive messages you want, add trusted senders to the Safe Senders List or a mailing list to the Safe Recipients List. To block messages, add unwanted senders to the Junk Senders List.

Help Protect Your Privacy
Help keep your identity private from people who send junk e-mail messages and keep your Inbox free from clutter. Block External Content prevents senders from validating your e-mail address when you open an unsolicited Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) message, even if you don't reply. Having your e-mail validated can result in even more junk e-mail messages delivered to your Inbox.

Improve Remote and Mobile Access to Your Inbox
Stay productive when working on unreliable networks or when moving between wireless network connections with the Cached Exchange Mode. It downloads the most necessary data first, and can help Outlook 2003 be more responsive over low-speed networks or if your network connection is unreliable.
Note. The Cached Exchange Mode in Outlook 2003 requires Exchange 2003.

Manage Sales Opportunities and Contacts
Connect with customers and save time from looking for contact and account information in multiple places. With Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager, an enhanced version of Outlook 2003, small businesses can manage contacts, accounts, sales opportunities, and more—all in one place. Custom reports can also provide small businesses with actionable insights into their data.

Reuse Data Stored in Word 2003 Documents
Solve a variety of business problems, such as data reporting, content aggregation, publishing, and data mining, with support for XML in Microsoft Office Word 2003. Apply your own XML elements to a Word 2003 document to collect data, such as the latest sales figures or stock numbers, from a Web service or internal server tool. You can also create, save, and open XML-formatted rich documents that exchange and reuse data across the organization.

Analyze and Display Up-to-the-Moment Business Information
Make better business decisions by using Microsoft Office Excel 2003 to analyze data from multiple sources, including databases and Web services. With the new visual XML mapping tool, you can import or export data to or from XML data stores, and create dynamic Excel 2003 spreadsheets that load XML data, display it, and write it out in any format.

Extract XML Data from Tables in a Database
More easily share information with enhanced XML support in Microsoft Office Access 2003. It can help developers create sophisticated enterprise-wide database solutions that integrate easily with the Web. Streamline and Automate Business Processes
Smart document technology in Office Professional Edition 2003 enables developers to create XML-formatted Word 2003 and Excel 2003 files that provide more useful, contextual, and customized content in the Office task pane. As users navigate through a smart document, a task pane displays relevant information, such as help with the current task, suggested content, or supporting data and links to related information.

Gather More Information in Less Time
Microsoft Office InfoPath™ 2003 streamlines the process of gathering information and reusing it throughout the organization. Quickly and easily create rich, dynamic XML-based forms that enable you to take advantage of your existing data stores and structures.

• Min. 233MHz Processor
• Min. 128MB RAM
• Min. 400MB hard drive disk space
• Windows 2000 SP3 or XP
• Min. SVGA 800 x 600 monitor