Microsoft Office 2003 (codenamed Office 11) is an office suite written and distributed by Microsoft for Windows. It was released to manufacturing on August 19, 2003, and made available for the public on October 21, 2003. It is the predecessor to Microsoft Office 2007 and the successor to Microsoft Office XP. It runs on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Vista. Since its successor Office 2007 only supports Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 or a later operating system, this is the last version of Microsoft Office compatible with Windows 2000.
Applications[]
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Publisher
- Microsoft InfoPath (New)
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft Visio
- Microsoft FrontPage
- Microsoft OneNote (New)
- Microsoft Office Picture Manager (New)
New features[]
The core applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access) received only minor improvements from Office XP, although tablet and pen support was introduced for the applications.
Outlook[]
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.
Word[]
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[]
Excel 2003 introduced list commands, some statistical functions and XML data import, analysis and transformation/document customization features.
Access[]
Access 2003 introduced a backup command, the ability to view object dependencies, error checking in forms and reports, among other features.
FrontPage[]
FrontPage 2003 introduced conditional formatting, Find and Replace for HTML elements, new tools for creating and formatting tables and cells, dynamic templates, Adobe Flash support, WebDAV and SharePoint publishing, among other features.
Publisher[]
Publisher 2003 introduced a Generic Color PostScript printer driver for commercial printing.
Removed features[]
- Design Time Controls support removed in FrontPage
- Access 2.0 database conversion utility removed from the installation CD; Client Server Visual Design Tools for Access are no longer included in the installation CD
- A large number of converters and filters are no longer available on the installation CD
- Several international font options removed for installation CD
- Genigraphics Wizard support and Presentation Broadcasting removed in PowerPoint
- Microsoft Draw Converter and Organization Chart Converter are no longer available
- Web Pages wizard removed in Word
- Multiple features in Visio removed
- Comments option in the View menu as well as the button on the Comment pane to close the pane were removed in Word
- Microsoft Photo Editor removed
- Due to the deprecation of WinHelp, context-sensitive help was removed
- Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar removed
External links[]
- Microsoft Office Online at Microsoft (archived 2003-09-07)
- Microsoft Office 2003 at Wikipedia
History • Website • Microsoft Product Activation • Genuine Advantage |
Windows |
3.0 • 95 • 97 • 2000 • XP • 2003 • 2007 • 2010 • 2013 • 2016 • 2019 • 2021 |
Mac OS/OS X/macOS |
3.0 • 4.2 • 98 • 2001 • X • 2004 • 2011 • 2016 • 2019 • 2021 |
Applications (List) |
Desktop |
Access • Excel (Viewer) • InfoPath • Lync • OneNote • Outlook (Hotmail Connector • Add-ins) • PowerPoint (Viewer) • Project • Publisher • SharePoint (Designer • Workspace) • Visio • Word (Viewer) |
Server |
Forms Server • Groove Server • Lync Server • PerformancePoint Server • Project Server • Project Portfolio Server • SharePoint Server • Excel Services • InfoPath Forms Services |
Mobile |
Office Mobile |
Online |
Live Meeting • Office Live • Office Web Apps • Outlook Web App • Office 365 • Outlook.com |
Office tools |
Microsoft Office shared tools • Ribbon Hero • Ribbon Hero 2 |
Discontinued |
Accounting • Document Imaging • Entourage • FrontPage • Microsoft InterConnect • Liquid Motion • Mail • Office Assistants • Microsoft PhotoDraw • Photo Editor • Schedule+ • Snapshot Viewer for Access • Microsoft Vizact |
Related products |
Works • MapPoint • Search Server • Language Packs |
Technologies |
Information Bridge Framework • Object Linking and Embedding • Office Open XML • Office XML formats • Smart tags • Visual Basic for Applications |