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Office Standard Edition 2003 (Excel, Outlook, Word, Powerpoint)
Office Standard Edition 2003 (Excel, Outlook, Word, Powerpoint)
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From: Microsoft
Category: Software

List Price: £369.99
Buy New: £196.96
You Save: £173.03 (47%)
Buy New/Used from £180.00

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars(16 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1053

Language: English (Original Language)
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.8 x 1.9

MPN: 021-06145
Model: 021-06145
UPC: 805529305373
EAN: 0805529305373
ASIN: B0000AZJVB

Release Date: October 21, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days

Features:
  • Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003 is a bundle of the most essential applications: Word 2003 for word processing, Excel for spreadsheets, PowerPoint 2003 for presentations and Outlook 2003 for e-mail and personal informationVisual Basic for Applica

Accessories:

  • Office Professional 2003 (Excel, Outlook, Word, Powerpoint, Publisher, Access)
  • Acrobat 6.0 Standard Win
  • Acrobat 6.0 Professional Upgrade Win
  • Office Professional 2003 Upgrade (Excel, Outlook, Word, Powerpoint, Publisher, Access)

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Solve the challenges you and your business face with Microsoft Office 2003. Microsoft Office 2003 is designed to help you improve your productivity and achieve better results. Powerful new functionality behind familiar and easy?to?u

Amazon.co.uk Review
Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003 is a bundle of the most essential desktop applications: Word 2003 for word processing, Excel 2003 for spreadsheets, PowerPoint 2003 for presentations and Outlook 2003 for e-mail and personal information. Office applications share a common look and feel, which means there's less to learn when switching between them. There are also shared components, such as the drawing tools, which 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 Office Standard Edition 2003 is great integration with SharePoint Services running on Windows Server 2003, allowing users to save documents to an internal website 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 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.

Although this is the Standard edition, it is comprehensive and feature-rich. There is also a professional edition, which adds the Access 2003 database manager, Publisher 2003 for desktop publishing 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:   Read 11 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Very intuitive, easy to use and produces great results...   March 17, 2007
  18 out of 18 found this review helpful

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 money as well as being a very complete office package.

Recommended!



4 out of 5 stars You can get this for 17 from MS - if you work for NHS   February 6, 2007
  9 out of 11 found this review helpful

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.[...]



1 out of 5 stars No longer of any value   January 29, 2006
  99 out of 107 found this review helpful

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 - which is very useful. Most remarkably of all, it costs absolutely nothing! It is a completely free download off the Internet from it's own official web site. It's not even a "trial" version - you get the whole thing for free, to keep.

So take a long look at OpenOffice before you spend any money on Microsoft's offering. You'd be mad not to.


5 out of 5 stars Excellent   January 7, 2006
  7 out of 12 found this review helpful

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 impressive though. It could be beneficial for them to sort out the Options dialog box in each individual application but that is only a small issue! It is a lot of money granted, but I would have no hesitation in recommending it


3 out of 5 stars Outlook 2003 Bug   February 16, 2005
  37 out of 45 found this review helpful

I bought Office Professional with the specific intention of using Outlook as my email provider. Unfortunately this particular version has a number of bugs and potentially conflicts with Norton antivirus.

The problem is that Outlook from time to time does not send out emails in the Outbox a problem that appears to occur on a random basis, but more often when an email in the outbox is re-edited.

There does not appear to be a fix for this on the Microsoft site and the software developers seem to be unclear how to resolve this problem. After hours of frustation trying to get Outlook to send out a set of emails, I finally gave up and downloaded a free emailing package call Thunderbird from Mozilla, which does all I need.


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