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Microsoft's Office Small Business Edition 2003 is a bundle of essential desktop applications: Office Word 2003 for word processing, Office Excel 2003 for spreadsheets, Office PowerPoint 2003 for presentations and Office Outlook 2003 for e-mail and personal information. This Small Business edition also includes Office Publisher 2003, an easy-to-use desktop publishing application. Office applications share a common look and feel and also benefit from shared components, such as the drawing tools which let you create charts, diagrams and text effects. Another strong point is the integrated Visual Basic for Applications, enabling anything from simple macros to complete custom solutions.
Office has been a highly capable product for years, making it hard for Microsoft to come up with compelling new features. New in Office Small Business Edition 2003 is great integration with SharePoint Services running on Windows Server 2003, allowing users to save documents to an internal web site with features like 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 always-on 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. Office Word 2003 is enhanced with a new Reading view, using ClearType technology and automatic page-sizing for ease in reading online documents.
Overall Office Small Business Edition 2003 is comprehensive and feature-rich. There is also a professional edition, which adds the Office Access 2003 database manager and some additional features in the area of XML support and rights management. Office deserves its position as the leading productivity suite. It's an excellent deal, but makes less sense as an upgrade unless you have a tablet PC or will make use of the new collaboration features. --Tim Anderson
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Very intuitive, easy to use and produces great results... I have just upgraded to Office 2007 but find myself still using 2003 Pro.
Why? It's just that good. The layout is by far the best out of all the office products, and the menu driven system allows you to create very professional work with little input. There are even templates and wizards to help you along the way. All the major office programs are here except FrontPage, which most people wouldn't use anyway, unless into web design. Overall, I have given it 5 stars as it is the best value for... more info
You can get this for £17 from MS - if you work for NHS Just thought you might like to know, if you have an NHS email - you can order this direct from Microsoft, for shipping charge only. £17. Special deal with Microsoft for NHS employees. It's called their Home Use Programme.[...]
No longer of any value I've been using Microsoft Office on a professional, daily basis for twelve years (I earn my living by writing, so I "live" in Microsoft Word for extended periods during the day).
But recently I've stopped using Microsoft Office products altogether, for the simple reason that the latest release of OpenOffice is now every bit as good. It uses open-standard file formats, can read/write Microsoft Office file formats, and is built by a reputable company (Sun Microsystems). It can even write Adobe PDF documents... more info
Excellent I have been using Office since I can remember (well, Uni from 95-98 anyway!) and this seems the best most intuitive version of Office yet. I have Office Premium with Visio which I use for both my studies and work and can honestly say I have never experienced a problem with any bugs in it; and documents produced work fine on my works PC which has Office 2000 installed. I don't use Outlook as I have on-line access to my works email account which is all I use, so I can't comment on it. The other apps are... more info
