Microsoft Office 2003 (codenamed Office 11) is an

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developed and distributed by

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for its

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. Office 2003 was

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on August 19, 2003, and was later released to retail on October 21, 2003, exactly two years after the release of

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. It was the successor to

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and the predecessor to

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. The

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equivalent,

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was released on May 11, 2004. New features in Office 2003 include

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; new collaboration features; improved support for

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s, and

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; and extended use of Office Online services. Office 2003 introduces two new programs to the Office product lineup:

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, a program for designing, filling, and submitting electronic

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forms; and OneNote, a

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program for creating and organizing diagrams, graphics, handwritten notes, recorded audio, and text. It also introduces the Picture Manager

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to open, manage, and share digital images. 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. Office 2003 is also the first version with support for

colors and visual styles, and introduces updated icons. The Office logo was also updated, eliminating the puzzle motif in use since

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. Office 2003 is the last version of Office to include the traditional

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and

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interface across all programs, and also the last version to include the " 97 - 2003"

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as the default file format. 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

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SP3 or later,

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and

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. It is officially unsupported on

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, or later versions of Windows. Microsoft released a total of three

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s for Office 2003 throughout its lifecycle. Service Pack 1 was released on July 27, 2004, Service Pack 2 was released on September 27, 2005, and Service Pack 3 was released on September 17, 2007. Mainstream support for Office 2003 ended on April 14, 2009, and extended support ended on April 8, 2014, the same dates that mainstream and extended support ended for Windows XP. It is the last version of Microsoft Office to support

service packs 3–4,

RTM–SP1 and

RTM; as the following version,

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only supports

SP2,

SP1 or later.

New features

The core applications,

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, and

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, 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

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, and ''Cached Exchange'' mode. Another key benefit of Outlook 2003 was the improved junk mail filter.

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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. 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 (

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support,

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and

publishing among other features. Publisher 2003 introduced a Generic Color PostScript printer driver for commercial printing.

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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

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add-ins as VSTO solutions was introduced. Office 2003 was the last version of

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to include fully customizable

s and menus for all of its applications, the

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, the ability to

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service packs into the original setup files,

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, 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

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tools. It was also the last Office version to support

. A new picture organizer with basic editing features, called

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, 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

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as a major Office 2003 feature "outside the box". 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

integration (designing customized

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s, importing and transforming XML data) throughout resulting in a far more data-centric model (instead of a document-based one). The

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5 library was introduced specifically for Office's XML integration. Office 2003 also has

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

* Design Time Controls are no longer supported in FrontPage 2003. * The Access 2.0 database conversion utility is removed from the installation CD and the Client Server Visual Design Tools for Access are no longer included. * A large number of converters and filters are no longer available on the installation CD. Several international font options are also removed. * Genigraphics Wizard support and Presentation Broadcasting were removed in PowerPoint 2003. A download for the latter was made available by Microsoft. * Microsoft Draw Converter and Organization Chart Converter are no longer available. * The Web Pages wizard is no longer available in Word 2003. * In Word 2003, the Comments option on the View menu as well as the button on the Comment pane to close the pane were removed. * Microsoft Photo Editor was removed, including many features not available in its replacement. * Due to the

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, context-sensitive help was removed in Office 2003. * Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar was removed.

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

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System requirements

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Windows 2000 SP3, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 (InfoPath requires

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or newer)

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233 MHz
Intel

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400 MHz required for speech recognition
450 MHz processor required for Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2003

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, memory1 =

128 MB
256 MB is required for Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2003

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are required for speech recognition , network1 = {{center, Certain advanced collaboration features require

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or later
Internet access is required for product activation and online functionality , hdspace1 =

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

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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)

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is required to install Office 2003 from

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for certain inking functionality
, Other = InfoPath 2003 requires Internet Explorer 6 or newer.

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