10 Facts About Office 2003

Microsoft Office 2003 is an office suite developed and distributed by Microsoft for its Windows operating system.

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.

The Office 2003 logo was updated, eliminating the puzzle motif in use since Office 2003 95.

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.

Outlook Office 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.

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Access Office 2003 introduced a backup command, the ability to view object dependencies, error checking in forms and reports among other features.

FrontPage Office 2003 introduced 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 Office 2003 introduced a Generic Color PostScript printer driver for commercial printing.

InfoPath Office 2003 was introduced for collecting data in XML-based forms and templates based on information from databases.

All Office 2003 applications were available for purchase as standalone products.