Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003 Upgrade

Build powerful connections between people, information, and processes!

Product Information

Office Standard Edition 2003, our latest basic personal and business productivity solution, gives you familiar, easy-to-use document authoring, analysis, presentation, and communication applications that help you work smarter and faster.

 Product Features

• Improve business processes
  Support for industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) lets you exchange and use data from a variety of sources.
• Collaborate using Windows® SharePoint™ Services Coordinate project schedules and meetings more easily by using Meeting Workspaces. Use Document Workspaces to collaborate on and review documents.
• Manage e-mail more effectively
  Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager lets you store, analyze, and report contact information and sales opportunities.
• Help protect sensitive documents and e-mail
  Information rights management (IRM) functionality helps protect sensitive files and e-mail messages from unauthorized access and use.
• Collect information quickly and accurately
  Use Microsoft Office InfoPath™ to create rich, dynamic forms that collect information from multiple sources.

Products Included

• Excel -  Analyze and share critical business data while helping to protect access to sensitive information.
• Outlook -  Powerful new tools help you manage communications, organize tasks, and work better with others.
• PowerPoint  -  Powerful new tools help you create, present, and collaborate on presentations that make more impact.
• Word - Get great tools for creating, sharing, and controlling the distribution of sensitive business documents.

  

Microsoft® Office Excel 2003

Microsoft Office Excel 2003 contains powerful tools to help you analyze, manage, and share critical business data. Our latest version also lets you work more efficiently in teams, while helping to protect and control access to sensitive information.

Features:

• Collaborate using Windows® SharePoint™ Services
  Save Excel 2003 spreadsheets to shared workspaces, where team members can get the latest version and save task lists, related files, and more.
• Control distribution of your work
  Use Information Rights Management (IRM) functionality to prevent recipients from forwarding, copying, or printing important spreadsheets.
• Take advantage of data wherever it is
  Excel 2003 can read data in any customer-defined XML schema. You can analyze XML data sources using charts, tables, or graphs.
• Manage e-mail more effectively
  The reading pane in Outlook 2003 makes e-mail messages easier to read, and Quick Flags help you prioritize incoming e-mail messages.

 

Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003

Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003 provides an integrated solution for managing e-mail, schedules, tasks, notes, and more. Key enhancements include the new cached mode, automatic grouping of messages, junk e-mail handling, and improved reading views.

Features:

• Manage and prioritize communications
  Flag messages by priority or time sensitivity. Use the new Navigation Pane to access your contacts, calendar, tasks, folders, and more.
• Put Outlook 2003 to work for you
  Improved junk e-mail filters help protect you from unwanted e-mail. Enhanced Rules and Alerts help you stay organized and on schedule.
• Print less, read more
  The improved Reading Pane displays twice as much content, making reading more comfortable and reducing scrolling when you read long messages online.
• Save time and find messages faster
  Group messages by date, size, conversation, subject, importance, and more. Save the results of commonly used e-mail searches as Search Folders.

Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003

Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2003 lets you create, present, and collaborate on presentations. Improved features and increased support for multimedia, ink markup, and Smart Tags make it easier to create powerful, persuasive presentations.

Features:

• Work together better
  When you attach a presentation in an Outlook 2003 e-mail message, you can create a Document Workspace to help your team review the presentation.
• Broaden your reach
  Package a PowerPoint 2003 presentation and all of its associated graphics and audio or video files to a CD for broader sharing or distribution.
• Help control distribution of sensitive materials
  Prevent recipients from forwarding, copying, or printing important presentations by using the Information Rights Management (IRM) feature.
• Stay focused on your work
  Find facts easily with the new Research Task Pane, which brings electronic dictionaries, thesauri, and online research sites into PowerPoint 2003.
• Find key information with Smart Tags
  When you type a name, address, or other key word or phrase, a Smart Tag appears and provides a list of actions you can take

Microsoft® Office Word 2003

Microsoft Office Word 2003, the latest version of our best-selling word processor, delivers innovations that can help you easily create profession-quality documents, control distribution of sensitive information, and collaborate with others.

Features:

• Collaborate through Windows® SharePoint™ Services
  Save documents to Document Workspaces, where team members can get the latest version, check out documents, and access related documents and links.
• Help control distribution of sensitive documents
  Help protect sensitive documents from unauthorized use through Information Rights Management (IRM) functionality.
• Create organizational solutions with XML
  Support for XML and custom schemas provides the basis for building integrated solutions to business needs such as data reporting and publishing.
• See comments and revisions more clearly
  Editorial review features have been enhanced to make comments and changes easier for your entire team to track, accept, and reject.
• Find facts quickly
  The Research Task Pane helps you quickly find and add information from electronic dictionaries, reference materials, and online research sites.

System Requirements

Microsoft Windows-based computers

Processor	Personal computer with an Intel Pentium 233-MHz or faster processor (Pentium III recommended)
Memory	128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or greater
Hard Disk	190 MB of available hard-disk space
Drive	CD-ROM drive
Display	Super VGA (800 × 600) or higher-resolution monitor with 256 colors
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 (SP3),Windows XP, or later
Other	To use the optional installation of Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager, you need to meet the following system requirements: a PC with Pentium 450-MHz or faster processor, 260 MB of RAM or greater recommended, 190 MB of available hard-disk space; for speech recognition: Pentium II 400-MHz or faster processor, close-talk microphone, and audio-output device; Microsoft Exchange Server is required for certain advanced functionality in Outlook 2003; Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 running Windows SharePoint™ Services is required for certain advanced collaboration functionality; certain inking features require running Microsoft Office on the Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition; Information Rights Management features require access to a Microsoft Windows 2003 Server running Windows Rights Management Services; note: Business Contact Manager will be disabled in the presence of an Exchange-technologies-based e-mail system
Input Device	Microsoft mouse, Microsoft IntelliMouse®, or compatible pointing device
Internet Connection	Internet functionality requires dial-up or broadband Internet access (provided separately); local or long-distance charges may apply

Upgrade Eligibility  - Determine whether your current version of Microsoft Office qualifies you for the upgrade.


The following products qualify:

Microsoft Office XP
Office XP Developer, Office XP Professional with FrontPage®, Office XP Professional Special Edition, Office XP Professional with Publisher, Office XP Professional, Office XP Small Business Edition, Office XP Standard

Microsoft Office 2000
Office 2000 Developer, Office 2000 Premium, Office 2000 Professional, Office 2000 Small Business Edition, Office 2000 Standard

Microsoft Office 97
Office 97 Professional, Office 97 Small Business Edition (version 2), Office 97 Small Business Edition (version 1), Office 97 Standard

Microsoft Works
Works Suite 2006(1), Works Suite 2004, Works Suite 2003, Works Suite 2002, Works Suite 2001, Works 2000, Works 8.0, Works 7.0, Works 6.0

(1) Planned versions of Microsoft Works (up to Works 8.0) and Microsoft Works Suite (up to Suite 2006) will qualify customers for the upgrade versions of Office 2003 Editions.

Notes
Office 95 doesn't qualify