Overview

Today more than ever people and companies are using software tools to deal with information. Microsoft® Office 2003 Small Business Edition include new and enhanced functionality to help people take advantage of this information, enabling them to communicate more effectively, collaborates with coworkers, and improves business processes. Microsoft® Office 2003 Small Business Edition uses familiar, integrated, and easy-to-use software to help you and your staff manage customers and sales opportunities effectively. It lets you create impressive sales and marketing materials in-house, and handle email and share information efficiently and securely.  Efficiently handle the increasing volume of e-mail, protect your PCs and network from spam and virus attacks, and share information with business partners, customers, and employees.

It includes applications such as Microsoft® Word, Excel, PowerPoint®, Outlook® 2003 with Business Contact Manager, and Publisher 2003.  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. Microsoft Office Excel 2003 enables you to turn data into information with powerful tools to analyze, communicate, and share results. 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.

Main Features

• Manage, prioritize, and act o­n an ever-increasing volume of business information. More effectively manage customers and sales opportunities to build profitable business relationships.
• Share documents with team members for modifications and have control over what gets changed. Choose permission settings and allow coauthors to alter o­nly the sections or formatting that you choose.
• Enable teams to modify, access, and save documents in a central location by 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.
• Contact team members quickly with instant messaging (IM), which can be displayed in most programs in Office 2003 Editions and lets you know when your team members are o­nline. o­nline presence information requires Windows Server 2003 running Windows SharePoint Services.
• Read e-mail more quickly. The Outlook 2003 Reading Pane displays twice as much content as previous versions of Outlook, reducing the amount you need to scroll to read e-mail messages.
• Prioritize e-mail messages by using Quick Flags to indicate a priority or time-sensitive messages.
• Save time spent rereading e-mail messages in threaded conversations. You can group all messages by subject line and then quickly scan or delete entire conversation threads.
• Find important e-mail messages immediately. Use Search Folders to save commonly used searches and then use them when you need them. Store the resulting messages in any folder, and still access them quickly. Search folders require a connection to Microsoft Exchange 2003.
• Help block junk e-mail messages from cluttering your Inbox with the new Junk E-Mail Filter in Outlook 2003. Use Outlook 2003 in different network environments. Outlook stays connected to a network even when you roam between different connections.
• Help protect your privacy. With Outlook, you can choose when to include Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) content in an e-mail message, and can help prevent unsolicited attachments from automatically returning information to the originating server.
• Keep working regardless of your connection status. If your network connection is unreliable, the Cached Exchange Mode in Outlook 2003 saves and displays the information from the last time you connected to the network. Caching requires Exchange Server 2003.
• Access resources while working o­n files. The new Research task pane can help you access electronic dictionaries, thesauruses, o­nline research sites, and proprietary company information while working in Office 2003 programs. You can find information and incorporate it into your work quickly and easily.
• Take notes directly in your files. If you use a Tablet PC, you can use the tablet pen to add comments.
• Create and publish impressive sales and marketing materials for print, Web, e-mail, presentations and CDs in-house.

System Requirements

• Hard Disk
  380 MB
  
  
• Memory
  128 MB
  
  
• Processor
  Pentium, Pentium III recommended
  
  
• Platform
  WINXP or later/ 2000 Advanced Server SP3 or later