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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
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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. Communicate and Share Information Better. Communicate and Share Information Better Communicate quickly and effectively with others—internally and across organizations. Capture and Reuse Information, Bring information into your documents for more timely access to the information you need to make good decisions. Access Additional Productivity Resources Quickly find the information you need to complete your work. Capture and Reuse Data Bring key business data into your spreadsheets for more timely access to the information you need to make good decisions. Share Information with Confidence Work together effectively—internally and with other organizations—and help protect against the misuse of sensitive company information. Increase Productivity Be mobile and access information that can help you create the best spreadsheets possible. Manage and Prioritize Your Communication Organize information better to help save time and be more productive. Let Outlook Do Work for You Outlook can help you get the information you need—and block the information you don't need—to stay productive. Work with Others More Easily Work together better and help protect against the misuse and unwanted distribution of key company information. Work Together and Share Presentations with Confidence Now it's easier to collaborate on compelling presentations and share them with others. Impress Your Audience Use PowerPoint 2003 to create exciting slide shows with graphics, animations, and multimedia—and make them easier to present. Access Information at Your Fingertips Find the information you need without having to leave Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003. Create Impressive Marketing Materials for Print, Web, and E-Mail. Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 is a comprehensive solution for creating and publishing a wide variety of publications for desktop printing, commercial printing, e-mail distribution, or viewing on the Web. Work Smarter and Easier with Familiar Office Tools Work productively across Microsoft Office System programs. Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 looks and works more like other programs in the Microsoft Office System, making it easier than ever to use the right Office tool for the task, while still making the most of your knowledge and experience with the Microsoft Office System. Start Easy, Finish Fast Getting started is easier than ever with the simplified Start screen in Microsoft Office Publisher 2003.
Microsoft Office Excel 2003 enables you to turn data into information with powerful tools to analyze, communicate, and share results. Microsoft Office 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.
Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 provides an integrated solution for managing and organizing e-mail messages, schedules, tasks, notes, contacts, and other information. Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 delivers innovations you can use to manage your communications, organize your work, and work better with others—all from one place.
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
includes new tools to help you create, present, and collaborate on presentations that have more impact.
Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 is a complete business publishing and marketing materials solution, which can help you reach out to customers. With Microsoft Office Publisher 2003, it's easier than ever to design, create, and publish professional marketing and communication materials in-house.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Software for Business or Home!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
As the owner of a quickly growing business I need a software that will provide all of the word processing capabilities with the graphics capabilities and Microsoft Office SMALL BUSINESS 2003 does all those jobs very well with Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Business Contact Manager AND Publisher which allows me to do my communications, my record keeping, my client contact management, my presentations AND my own business cards and letterhead and brochures and flyers that look GREAT! I am very happy with this since I do not need Access as a database it saves me money.
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3.0 out of 5 stars (10 customer reviews) 9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good Product,
By Rob "RH" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
It really has evolved. But how far really depends on your needs. Was using Microsoft 97 products before upgrading to 2003. It was my opinion that Word Processing was certainly a mature product. Additionally, even Word 97 is full of features I don't ever use. Didn't really think that Office 2003 had much to offer - but was offered a special price, so I bit. Excellent product. I especially like the web integration of the applications (though some may argue that this is simply Bookshelf dressed-up and adopted for the web). Even non-office Microsoft products integrate fantastically, such as MapPoint. Regarding someone's comments on Star Office, I have not used it. But I have tried its open source cousin Open Office on at least three occasions. It is on par with 97 suite or maybe 2000. It is a solid product. But the Microsoft suite is about 1.5 generations ahead. I'm willing to pay for products that are better. The marketplace will judge -- yes, the beauty of capitalism.The bottom line - need should be the driver (at least in my world). If price is a concern try Open Office or Star Office. You can also pick-up a previous version of MS Office cheap (97 is a good one). If you believe you need the best suite available, then chose the current MS Office Suite. I haven't seen any better. 28 of 36 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't even think about upgrading,
By evaluator - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
You need to get out more. Just the fact that you are looking at this page and are thinking of upgrading your Microsoft Office makes it clear that you have a problem. Don't believe the Microsoft advertisement featuring dinosaurs to announce "Microsoft Office Has Evolved." It hasn't. This is a mature product. It doesn't matter if you use Office 1997, 2000 or 2003. They are all the same. The good, the bad and the ugly. It is all still here. Maybe a few bugs have been fixed. Most haven't, and ther are always new bugs. If Microsoft took the time to really improve the software, that would be one thing. But they don't.Here is an example. You are in Outlook. You call up a contact and want to send that person a letter. You need to print an envelope, but there is no command to do so. There is no button to click. You can't right click anywhere to print an envelope. I am not making this up. Outlook has been out for almost ten years and multiple upgrades, and Microsoft still hasn't gotten around to implementing functionality to print a single envelope. Your only option (the on-line support confirms this) is to perform a mail merge. This is an elaborate process that is designed for printing thousands of envelopes for a bulk mailing. It involves opening multiple windows and setting all sorts of settings. You have to go through the ENTIRE PROCESS just to print a single envelope! What is more, the mail merge feature has bugs in it. It leaves blank lines in addresses that look atrocious, and it drops country names from addresses. It gives you options as to how you want country names treaed in addresses, but these all do nothing. Whatever option you select, Outlook leaves countries out of addresses when it prints envelopes. I could go on, but I won't. If you are using Office 2000 or even Office 1997, you aren't missing out on anything. There is absolutely no reason to shell out $300 for new software that does all the same things in all the same ways with mostly the same bugs. 35 of 48 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Software for Business or Home!,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
As the owner of a quickly growing business I need a software that will provide all of the word processing capabilities with the graphics capabilities and Microsoft Office SMALL BUSINESS 2003 does all those jobs very well with Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Business Contact Manager AND Publisher which allows me to do my communications, my record keeping, my client contact management, my presentations AND my own business cards and letterhead and brochures and flyers that look GREAT! I am very happy with this since I do not need Access as a database it saves me money.
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