Overview

Office applications share a common look and feel, which means theres less to learn when switching between them. There are also shared components, such as the drawing tools, that let you create charts, diagrams and text effects. Another strong point is that Visual Basic for Applications is fully integrated, enabling anything from simple macros to custom solutions that automate one or more of the Office applications. Office has been a highly capable product for years, making it hard for Microsoft to come up with compelling new features.

New in Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003 is great integration with SharePoint Services running on Windows Server 2003, allowing users to save documents to an internal website with features such as 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 constant 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 e-mail reading. Word 2003 is enhanced with a new Reading view, using ClearType technology and automatic page-sizing for ease in reading online documents.

Main Features

• Use the Research task pane to research companies and stock quotes.
• Use file recovery to help protect your spreadsheets in the event your program or operating system stops responding.
• More easily structure and manipulate information, such as household inventory, with improvements in list functionality.
• Use enhanced support for printing, charting, and transforming list data into Microsoft PivotTable® reports.
• Take advantage of statistical analysis functions that broaden support for collinearity detection, calculations of the sum of squared deviations, normal distributions, and continuous probability distribution.
• Help reduce unwanted and potentially dangerous e-mail messages using the customizable Junk E-Mail Filter.
• More easily link to your e-mail account with improved Internet and Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) e-mail account connectivity and management for Web-based accounts such as Microsoft Hotmail®, Yahoo mail, and AOL mail.
• Copy PowerPoint 2003 presentations to a CD for playback on other computers.
• More easily add multimedia elements to your presentation with support for audio and full-screen videos.
• Use the Research task pane to reference thesauri, encyclopedias, and other online resources.
• Use document recovery to help protect your documents in the event your program or operating system stops responding.
• Restrict how reviewers can change document content and formatting.
• Merge comments and changes from multiple users into a single document.

System Requirements

• Hard Disk
  260 MB.
  
  
• Memory
  128 MB.
  
  
• Processor
  233 MHz.
  
  
• Platform
  Microsoft Windows XP or later.