Office Standard Edition 2003 Upgrade (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint) | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Software
List Price: £219.99
Buy New: £174.35
You Save: £45.64 (21%)
New (1) Used (3) from £115.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 281
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.9 x 2
MPN: 021-06153
Model: 021-06153
UPC: 805529317727
EAN: 0805529317727
ASIN: B0000BZ54L
Release Date: October 21, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New Sealed Commercial Retail Boxed Version, same as Amazon's. This program will search your hard disk and/or floppy disk to confirm your eligibility for this upgrade. The Software will install only if you are a licensed user of one of the following products: Microsoft Works 2000, Works 6.0-7.0, Works 8.0, Works Suite 2000-2003, Works Suite 2004-2006, Microsoft XP Developer, Office XP Pro Special Edition, Office XP Professional, Office XP Small Business Edition, Office XP Standard, Microsoft Office 2000 Developer, Office 2000 Premium, Office 2000 Professional, Office 2000 Small Business Edition, Office 2000 Standard, Microsoft Office 97 Professional, Office 97 Small Business Edition v1-v2, and Office 97 Standard. Price Includes VAT. Please contact us via our Email details held on this Website if you require further information. We aim for same day despatch where possible. Normally 24-48 hr. Delivery.
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| » | This upgrade version of Microsoft Office S.E. allows you to modify your existing operating system to the new 2003 versionMicrosoft Office Standard Edition 2003 is a bundle of the most essential applications: Word 2003 for word processing, Excel for sp |
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This upgrade version of Microsoft Office S.E. allows you to modify your existing operating system to the new 2003 version Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003 is a bundle of the most essential applications: Word 2003 for word processing, Excel for spr
Amazon.co.uk Review
Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003 is a bundle of the most essential desktop applications: Office Word 2003 for word processing, Office Excel 2003 for spreadsheets, Office PowerPoint 2003 for presentations and Office Outlook 2003 for e-mail and personal information. Office applications share a common look and feel, which means there's less to learn when switching between them. There are also shared components, such as the drawing tools which let you create charts, diagrams and text effects. Another strong point is that Visual Basic for Applications is fully integrated, enabling anything from simple macros to custom solutions that automate one or more of the Office applications. Office has been a highly capable product for years, making it hard for Microsoft to come up with compelling new features. New in Office Standard Edition 2003 is great integration with SharePoint Services running on Windows Server 2003, allowing users to save documents to an internal website with features like update notification, task lists and version control. Tablet PC users get built-in support for Ink, letting you add handwritten notes and drawings to Office documents. Those with always-on Internet access will like the updated Task Pane, offering online help and potentially third-party services direct from the Internet. Outlook has been reworked in this edition, with a better interface and more secure e-mail reading. Office Word 2003 is enhanced with a new Reading view, using ClearType technology and automatic page-sizing for ease in reading online documents. Although this is the Standard edition, it is comprehensive and feature-rich. There is also a professional edition, which adds the Office Access 2003 database manager, Office Publisher 2003 for desktop publishing and some additional features in the area of XML support and rights management. Office deserves its position as the leading productivity suite. It's an excellent deal, but makes less sense as an upgrade unless you have a tablet PC or will make use of the new collaboration features. --Tim Anderson
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A good deal at half the price. February 11, 2004
131 out of 137 found this review helpful
MS Office isn’t the leader in its class by accident. When I paid out for the upgrade, I fully expected a top class word processor, a powerful spread sheet, an integrated email / contact manager / diary and a powerful presentation tool. What’s more, I fully expected to be able to easily switch between and combine the four tools. MS Office didn’t let me down. However, for most people, the decision to buy MS Office rather than one of its competitors has already been made for them. Why? Because like it or not, MS Office has become something of a world standard. I know that if I prepare my slides in PowerPoint, there’s a strong chance that most places I go to are going to be able to fix me up with a computer to show them. If I buy a new mobile phone or PDA, it’s a good bet that it will come with software that “synchronises” with Microsoft Outlook. And the last time I saw a spreadsheet that wasn’t prepared in Excel was in the 80's. In fact, I can hardly remember the last time anyone emailed me a document which wasn’t either PDF or MS-Office based. The truth is, most people are stuck with MS Office, and if you’re going to be forced to have one product, it might as well be this one. Having said all that, I do have my gripes (hence the 3 stars). Firstly, I’m not sure whether this product really takes you to the next level. There’s no arguing that things have moved on since the days of typewriters, when you had to find Tippex the right colour to match the paper you had, and then retype your mistakes to correct them. Remember when you had to print a document out from your word processor to see what it looked like without all those “back-slash B’s” for ‘bold’ and “back-slash C’s” for ‘centred text’? And the time was when spreadsheets had about a dozen functions, and a maximum formula length of 25 characters, and you needed columns and columns of formulae hidden away just to do simple calculations. So yes, things have improved. But what about this product as an “upgrade”? How does it compare, for example to MS Office 97? Sure, you have rounder fuzzier edges, and more colourful icons. On the practical side, I’ve managed to do fairly extensive work with tables without the whole thing coming to a shuddering halt, and I can have several documents open and several panes on the screen without a noticeable slow down (although that may in part be down to a more powerful PC). But for normal home use, I can put my finger on very few things which have changed dramatically since two (or is it three?) versions ago. Although I don’t doubt that it is packed with extra features, these are not features which will change the life of this home user. In fact, the only thing that I would say is markedly improved is PowerPoint, which now has capabilities that some dedicated graphics programmes would be proud of. If snazzy slides is what you're after, I doubt if you can do much better than PowerPoint. So why upgrade? Well, if you’re like me, and your new PC shipped with Microsoft Works rather than Microsoft Office, the good news is that you probably qualify for this upgrade. If you need PowerPoint for slides, graphics or presentations, and your “hand held” won’t synchronise with Outlook Express, you may just want to bite the bullet, and pay the ludicrous price. Cheaper than buying the product new, but to my mind way over the odds. The correct price should be nearer what students and teachers are asked to pay, particularly if you have already bought the product before. If you have an earlier version of MS Office, and that already does what you need, you should ask yourself whether you really need this upgrade at this price.
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