Microsoft Office 2003

Microsoft Office 2003
Developer	Microsoft
Type	Office Suite
Release date	August 19, 2003
Discontinued	April 8, 2014
Latest release version	Service Pack 3 (11.0.8173.0) September 17, 2007
Operating system	Windows 2000 SP3 or later
Licensing	Trialware
Website	office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
Preceded by	Microsoft Office XP (2001)
Succeeded by	Microsoft Office 2007 (2007)

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

Overall

• Tablet and Pen support

Outlook

• Better email and calendar sharing and information display
• Complete Unicode support
• Search folders
• Colored flags
• Kerberos authentication
• RPC over HTTP
• Cached Exchange mode
• Improved junk mail filter

Word

• Reading Layout view
• Document comparison
• Better change-tracking and annotation/reviewing
• Research Task Pane
• Voice comments
• XML-based format

Excel

• List commands
• More statistical functions and XML data import
• Analysis and transformation/document customization

Access

• Backup command
• Ability to view object dependencies
• Error checking in forms and reports

FrontPage

• Conditional formatting
• Find and Replace for HTML elements
• New tools for creating and formatting tables and cells
• Dynamic templates
• Flash support
• WebDAV and SharePoint publishing among other features

Publisher

• 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