Overview

Microsoft® Office Professional Edition 2003 can help you and organization because simplify functionality improve powerful connections between people, information, and business processes. Professional can help organizations and their employees transform information into an impact. Improvements were made in four areas: information management and control, business processes, communication and collaboration, and personal productivity.

Enjoy true familiarity with Office 2003 and exchange Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents seamlessly with Office 97, 2000, and XP. Office 2003 programs--Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint®--the Professional edition includes Microsoft Office Access 2003, Microsoft Office Publisher 2003, and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager. In all Office 2003 Editions, Excel 2003 spreadsheets and Word 2003 documents can be saved in a native XML file format which can be manipulated and searched using any program that can process industry standard XML. With Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003, companies can also use customized XML formats—or schemas—to enable easier and more advanced information creation, capture, exchange, and reuse.

Main Features

• Sell more effectively by managing customers and sales prospects. 
• Lower marketing costs by creating and publishing impressive sales and marketing materials. Free access to Microsoft Office o­nline Template Gallery and Design Gallery and Microsoft Office Marketplace allows small-business employees to expand their design options and marketing services.
• Protect your PC and your business with stronger, more secure filtering of users from unsolicited e-mail messages and unsafe attachments.
• Save time by handling e-mail faster with an enhanced Outlook interface and improved features.
• Efficiently and securely handle the increasing volume of e-mail and Spam, and reduce the risk of virus threats.
• Reporting more than 20 customizable preformatted business reports allow small businesses to keep track of the sales pipeline, account history, neglected accounts and more.
• Check for updated versions of files.
• Create a team intranet site, see if team members are o­nline, see related links and files, and view file properties. There is no need to leave your program in Office 2003 Editions to find out if a team member is o­nline so that you can quickly confer with them. o­nline presence information is available in Outlook and in the Shared Workspace task pane.
• Receive an e-mail alert when any of the items in the shared workspace change.  
• Read e-mail messages more quickly. The Outlook 2003 Reading Pane displays twice as much content as previous versions of Microsoft Outlook, reducing the amount you need to scroll to read messages.
• Enable teams to modify, access, and save documents in a central location using Document Workspaces. In addition, the Shared Workspace task pane displays tasks, related documents, links, and member lists that notify you when your team members are o­nline. Document Workspaces and the Shared Workspace task pane require Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 running Microsoft Windows® SharePoint™ Services.
• Improve the efficiency of your meetings with Meeting Workspaces, which offer a centralized location for sharing agendas, visual resources, and other documentation. Meeting Workspaces require Windows Server 2003 running Windows SharePoint Services.

System Requirements

• Hard Disk
  

  400 MB.
  
  

• Memory
  128 MB.
  
  
• Processor
  Intel Pentium 233 MHz.
  
  
• Platform
  Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 3 (SP3)/XP.