Microsoft Office 2003

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Microsoft Office 2003
Developer(s) Microsoft
Initial releaseAugust 19, 2003;20 years ago (2003-08-19) [1]
Final release
Service Pack 3 (11.0.8173.0) [2] / September 17, 2007;16 years ago (2007-09-17) [3]
Operating system
[4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Platform Microsoft Windows
Predecessor Microsoft Office XP (2001)
Successor Microsoft Office 2007 (2007)
Type Office suite
License Trialware and software as a service (Microsoft Software Assurance)
Website web.archive.org/web/20051201092754/http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

Microsoft Office 2003 (codenamed Office 11 [9] ) is an office suite developed and distributed by Microsoft for its Windows operating system. Office 2003 was released to manufacturing on August 19, 2003, [1] and was later released to retail on October 21, 2003, exactly two years after the release of Windows XP. [10] It was the successor to Office XP and the predecessor to Office 2007. The Mac OS X equivalent, Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac was released on May 11, 2004.

Contents

New features in Office 2003 include information rights management; new collaboration features; improved support for SharePoint, smart tags, and XML; and extended use of Office Online services. [11] Office 2003 introduces two new programs to the Office product lineup: InfoPath, a program for designing, filling, and submitting electronic structured data forms; and OneNote, a note-taking program for creating and organizing diagrams, graphics, handwritten notes, recorded audio, and text. [12] It also introduces the Picture Manager graphics software to open, manage, and share digital images. [11]

With the release of Office 2003, Microsoft rebranded the Office productivity suite as an integrated system dedicated to information workers. As a result, Microsoft appended the "Office" branding to the names of all programs. [13] Office 2003 is also the first version with support for Windows XP colors and visual styles, [14] and introduces updated icons. [13] The Office logo was also updated, eliminating the puzzle motif in use since Office 95. [15] Office 2003 is the last version of Office to include the traditional menu bar and toolbar interface across all programs, [16] and also the last version to include the "97 - 2003" file format as the default file format. [17]

Office 2003 is incompatible with Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows ME and earlier versions of Windows. Minimum required operating systems for Office 2003 are Windows 2000 SP3 or later, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. [4] It is the last version of Microsoft Office for all Windows versions below XP SP2 and Server 2003 SP1. It is officially unsupported on Windows 8, [6] Windows Server 2012, [7] or later versions of Windows. [5] [8]

Microsoft released a total of three service packs for Office 2003 throughout its lifecycle. Service Pack 1 was released on July 27, 2004, [18] Service Pack 2 was released on September 27, 2005, [19] and Service Pack 3 was released on September 17, 2007. [3]


Service Pack 1 support ended on July 11, 2006, Service Pack 2 support ended on July 13, 2010, the same dates that support ended for Windows 2000, and Service Pack 3 support ended on April 8, 2014, [20] the same dates that support ended for Windows XP. [21]

New features

The core applications, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, had only minor improvements from Office XP. Outlook 2003 received improved functionality in many areas, including better email and calendar sharing and information display, complete Unicode support, search folders, colored flags, Kerberos authentication, RPC over HTTP, and Cached Exchange mode. Another key benefit of Outlook 2003 was the improved junk mail filter. Tablet and pen support was introduced in the productivity applications. Word 2003 introduced a reading layout view, document comparison, better change-tracking and annotation/reviewing, a Research Task Pane, voice comments and an XML-based format among other features. Excel 2003 introduced list commands, some statistical functions and XML data import, analysis and transformation/document customization features. Access 2003 introduced a backup command, the ability to view object dependencies, error checking in forms and reports among other features.

Office 2003 features improvements to smart tags such as smart tag Lists, which are defined in XML, by using regular expressions and an extended type library. [22] Smart tag recognition was added to PowerPoint and Access. FrontPage 2003 introduced conditional formatting, Find and Replace for HTML elements, new tools for creating and formatting tables and cells, dynamic templates (Dreamweaver), Flash support, WebDAV and SharePoint publishing among other features. Publisher 2003 introduced a Generic Color PostScript printer driver for commercial printing. [23] Information Rights Management capabilities were introduced in document productivity applications to limit access to a set of users and/or restrict types of actions that users could perform. Support for managed code add-ins as VSTO solutions was introduced.

Office 2003 was the last version of Microsoft Office to include fully customizable toolbars and menus for all of its applications, the Office Assistant, the ability to slipstream service packs into the original setup files, Office Web Components, and the Save My Settings Wizard, which allowed users to choose whether to keep a locally cached copy of installation source files and several utility resource kit tools. It was also the last Office version to support Windows 2000. A new picture organizer with basic editing features, called Microsoft Office Picture Manager, was included.

Only basic clipart and templates were included on the disc media, with most content hosted online and downloadable from within the Office application. Microsoft advertised Office Online as a major Office 2003 feature "outside the box". [24] Office Online provides how-to articles, tips, training courses, templates, clip art, stock photos and media and downloads (including Microsoft and third-party extensibility add-ins for Microsoft Office programs).

Office 2003 features broad XML integration (designing customized XML schemas, importing and transforming XML data) throughout resulting in a far more data-centric model (instead of a document-based one). The MSXML 5 library was introduced specifically for Office's XML integration. Office 2003 also has SharePoint integration to facilitate data exchange, collaborated workflow, and publishing. InfoPath 2003 was introduced for collecting data in XML-based forms and templates based on information from databases.

Removed features

Editions

Microsoft released five separate editions of Office 2003: Basic, Student and Teacher, Standard, Small Business, and Professional. Retail editions were available in Full or Upgrade versions. The Basic edition was only available to original equipment manufacturers. The Student and Teacher edition was intended for noncommercial use only. [29] All Office 2003 applications were available for purchase as standalone products. [30]

Microsoft Office 2003 Editions [31]
ApplicationBasic
Student and
Teacher		StandardSmall BusinessProfessional
Word 2003YesYesYesYesYes
Excel 2003YesYesYesYesYes
Outlook 2003YesYesYesYes
with Business Contact Manager		Yes
with Business Contact Manager
PowerPoint 2003NoYesYesYesYes
Visio 2003NoNoNoNoNo
Project 2003NoNoNoNoNo
Publisher 2003NoNoNoYesYes
Access 2003NoNoNoNoYes
FrontPage 2003NoNoNoNoNo
OneNote 2003NoNoNoNoNo
InfoPath 2003NoNoNoNoYes
Volume licensed "Professional Enterprise" edition only

System requirements

Office 2003 system requirements [11]
MinimumRecommended
Microsoft Windows
Operating system
Windows 2000 SP3, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, [4] Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 (InfoPath requires Internet Explorer 6 or newer) [5] [6] [7] [8]
CPU
Intel Pentium 233 MHz
Intel Pentium II 400 MHz required for speech recognition
450 MHz processor required for Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2003
Intel Pentium III
Memory
128 MB
256 MB is required for Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2003
Free space
210 MB (Student and Teacher, Standard)
380 MB (Small Business)
400 MB (Professional)
An additional 190 MB of free space is required to install Business Contact Manager
Cached installation files require the following additional hard disk space:
250 MB (Student and Teacher)
260 MB (Standard)
280 MB (Small Business)
290 MB (Professional)
Media
A CD-ROM drive is required to install Office 2003 from optical media
Graphics hardware
800×600 (SVGA) with 256 colors
Sound hardware
An audio output device and microphone are required for speech recognition
Network
Certain advanced collaboration features require Exchange Server 2003 or later
Internet access is required for product activation and online functionality
Input device(s)
Mouse and keyboard
Stylus and touchscreen for certain inking functionality

See also

Notes

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