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Microsoft's Office Word 2003 is stuffed with features for creating and editing documents, from simple letters to books and manuals. Word is a mature product, so as you would expect most things are easy to use and work well. Basic features include on-the-fly spelling and grammar checking, quick table insert, rich formatting and paragraph styles, multiple columns, indexing, and extensive drawing tools and text effects. Macros are well catered for, from simple Record Macro to full programming using Visual Basic for Applications. Track Changes lets you see how a document has been edited by different team members. There are also more exotic features such as auto-summarise, which creates an automatic précis for busy executives, and Translate, which uses an Internet service to provide integrated language translation.
The 2003 version of Word retains the familiar look and feel while adding some interesting features. The excellent Reading View is optimised for onscreen reading, reducing toolbar clutter and using ClearType technology. There is deep XML support in Word, powerful but mainly of interest to developers, making it easier to create and read Word documents programmatically, or to provide document templates that include custom tags. Information Rights Management lets you restrict document access to specified individuals, giving either full or just read-only rights. To use this feature requires a Rights Management Server and possibly a subscription, while recipients need either Word or a Word viewer, so it's not great for users of other word processors. Fortunately document permissions are turned off by default.
Office Word 2003 is good, but not perfect. It is not the best choice for documents hundreds of pages long, and its scheme for numbering paragraphs is over-complex. You can use Word for web editing, but a dedicated web editor is better, while advanced page layout is better done with desktop publishing software. It is for general use that Office Word 2003 shines, superbly combining ease of use with rich features. --Tim Anderson
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Word 2003, the latest version of the best-selling word processor, takes customer experience and feedback to deliver innovations you can use to create impressive-looking documents and help you work better with others. Communicate quickly and effectively wi
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Yes I know there is a newer version out there but I like the older icon driven version.
2007 seems a lot more complex than 2003 office was perfect it start to get like Micheal Jackson (too many face lifts) they Mircosoft people should leave be the latest if really bad if you want the best Word 2003 will give you certain things but not evereything.
Try both and decide but if you have this keep it and don't upgrade.
2007 seems a lot more complex than 2003 office was perfect it start to get like Micheal Jackson (too many face lifts) they Mircosoft people should leave be the latest if really bad if you want the best Word 2003 will give you certain things but not evereything.
Try both and decide but if you have this keep it and don't upgrade.
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Just keeps getting better!
18 Sep 2003
I was lucky enough to get Office 2003 before the official release date. Microsoft has done a nice job on the interface. Everything looks cleaner, and it will pop up useful sidebars on the righthand side (such as the clipbook for pasting items you have copied, help items, etc).
Another thing about the interface is that it meshes nicely with Windows XP themes. It will take a soft blue color when paired with Windows XP's default theme. All of the bars will be blue. This is nice on the eyes. The same goes with silver - everthing will match.
As for upgrading to 2003 from older versions... this is a tough call. If you have Word XP, I would be hard pressed to tell you to upgrade. Even Word 2000 does a fine job. I don't know if there are enough new bells and whistles in this to warrant upgrading. If you like to have the newest of everything however, this is the best word processor out there for PCs.
For those of you on a tight budget, thers is hope. As good as Microsoft Office products are, there is a FREE alternative. You may want to give OpenOffice 1.1 a download. It is completely free and open source, and most importantly, compatible with Microsoft documents (word, excel, etc).
32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Justified Upgrade for some, but not all
8 Nov 2003
Word 2003 is more powerful than ever. Unfortunately, most of the new features are aimed primarily towards large business. As a result, many end-users simply won't need them (or be able to use them). The users who will benefit most from upgrading are corporate users or users purchasing bundles with new PCs.
Pros:
Instant Messaging support is now integrated with Office applications. However, only MSN messenger is used. Users who predominantly use Yahoo, trillian, jabber, or ICQ will not find any utility in this feature, without signing up for a messenger account.
The user interface has changed for the better, and matches the Windows XP interface better. Personally, I like it. Also, fonts are rendered better, and consequently documents will look better on laptops (no more jagged edges).
The Reading Layout feature splits the text into a two column format for easier reading (think newspaper).
If you have Microsoft Server and SharePoint services installed on your network, you can share and track changes to word documents. Nice feature, but requires a significant investment on server software.
When typing an hypertext link, word no longer reformats the font of the URL.
Cons:
Product activation, which requires network access.
All of the Office applications now have a blended help system that first checks help files online first, before getting local help files.
XML is useless for end users. Programmers who use Word to write XML will find that Word no longer tries to autocorrect much of the XML, but you will still have the annoying red underline on many of your XML tags because the spellchecker flags them as misspelled.
Still, I think it makes a worthy upgrade for 97/2000 users, but XP users will find the expense difficult to justify. More specifically, if you are an end user without a lot of Microsoft back end software installed on your network (Windows 2000/2003 Server, SharePoint services, etc.) I would think very carefully before upgrading.
46 of 50 people found the following review helpful
The famously broken bits are still broken.
17 Jun 2004
Pointing out Word's faults is like pointing out the pyramids are crumbling--it may be true, but they're still going to be there. Still, Word's Master Document "feature" is still the surest way to document corruption. And you'd better track down the internet page that gives detailed instructions on the convoluted way you need to set up heading numbering if you want to keep your Word documents from corrupting.
And so on. I doubt anyone cares. Word is a fact of life, no matter if it's constantly falling to bits. The new version's XML support does give you a new path to recovering a corrupted document: saving to XML and then converting that file back to Word format has saved me some time on a couple of occasions.
We use Word because we have to. On those occasions when I don't have to, I use WordPerfect, because I like to actually produce things, not spend my time dealing with software problems.
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