A more attractive office

Advantages: Vastly improved interface & security
Disadvantages: memory requirement

...Having installed Office 2003 a little under a year ago, my first impression was that it was slow and clunky. It turns out that I needed more RAM in the system, so poped in another 512Mb and the speed is no longer an issue. I was very pleased with the look and feel of the package, which i felt was a vast improvement on previous versions. In particular, Outlook 2003 has many improved features such as the way emails are grouped by date, with the ability to expand and collapse the groups to only show what you want to see at any given time. Enhanced junk filters and security features keep your emails and machines safe from email based bugs and trackers. Any bugs or trackers are blocked on receipt, before they have a chance to share information about you. The whole package shares a common look and feel, while still retaining...

shargood 10.11.2006 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 Complete package

Death by a thousand cuts or a brilliant presentation package?

Advantages: A great tool for the creation of formal and educational presentations.
Disadvantages: Takes time and practice to become a confident, competent user.

...Death by a thousand cuts or a brilliant presentational package?MS PowerPoint MS PowerPoint is a powerful graphics programme that has transformed the manner in which we prepare and deliver presentations. You can create, customise, animate and print presentations. It enables you to communicate information clearly and effectively. Many computers come with this package already installed.The MS PowerPoint version that I use is the 2003 package for Students and Teachers, working on an XP laptop. This package costs £40.00 from Amazon, if bought separately,  and is operated through Windows. The 2003 version has been superceded by newer, more sophisticated versions, the latest being MS PowerPoint 2007. However, I still find the 2003 version perfectly adequate for my present needs. There are many online training packages, much...

NomadSue 13.10.2009 · Read review
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Microsoft FrontPage 2003

Advantages: Much better HTML, CSS & scripting support, easy to use
Disadvantages: some features rely on Sharepoint Services which most people won't have.

...features such as Web logs, news feeds, reviews and so on although these are dependent on the presence of SharePoint Services. This is a bit of a limitation though as it is far from easy to find a host that supports that unless you are hosting it yourself. What is very clear with this release is how much attention Microsoft have been paying to the competition. Many of the new features are lifted from ideas pioneered by Dreamweaver. Microsoft has even gone so far as providing compatibility with Dreamweaver's own DWT format web templates. FrontPage does still look very much the same though, sharing the common look and feel of other Microsoft Office 2003 products making it easy for novices to get up and running without too much pain. Anyone who is used to using Microsoft Office will find FrontPage easy to work with for simple web pages...

ilaskey 07.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Complete package

Microsoft 2003 upgrade

Advantages: easy to install
Disadvantages: expensive

...Microsoft Word 2003 Microsoft word 2003 upgrade is actually one of Microsoft's better products, it has new templates incorporated into the package and has excellent downloads from the Microsoft website which for a limited time are actually free. Microsoft has been attempting to integrate all its packages in the office program for some time and this has generally worked Microsoft word is capable of importing all of the other office programs into word. This package is one of the best on the market however it doesn't handle images and graphics very well this is because when you try and place a graphics image on the screen it uses half the page with a graphics box. In my humble opinion Microsoft are trying to emulate a desktop publishing program when they should really just stick to a word processor and create a desktop publishing...

johnkesterton 23.02.2006 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 Version upgrade package

The new office package from Microsoft

Advantages: looks good, they have ironed out little 'niggles'
Disadvantages: none really, probably price!

...I have just been shown Microsoft’s newest version of ‘Office’ – Office XP which will be released to the general public on May 31st 2001. The XP stands for eXPerience, or so we were told. Cheesiness aside, it all looked rather good. This opinion is written for people with a working knowledge of Office already, as if I described the Office suite and also said what’s new in XP you would still be reading at Christmas! So here is what’s new to tempt you into Microsoft Office XP. Firstly, they have been rather clever in the anti-piracy stakes. As you purchase your Office package, install it on your PC, you then need to ‘activate’ it. It will allow you to get started immediately and not activate if you wish but you only have 50 launches, so as you are nearing your deadline it prompts...

pagan 23.04.2001 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Office XP Professional Complete package

zoooom...wedge...da da

Advantages: A powerful package for presentations
Disadvantages: not as good if not planned correctly - can be boring if you don't use effects.

...I must admit that I am becoming more Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 everyday. Throughout university I used the package for presentations, a teaching resource and even web design. I have used the software for photo slideshows and to create videos. I know teach adults how to use PowerPoint within the workplace and hope this review will help you get the most out of the package most people have installed on their computer. Microsoft PowerPoint © ------------------------------ PowerPoint was first developed by Bob Gaskins and Dennis Austin on behalf of Forethought. It was released in 1987 for Apple Macintosh and only worked in black and white, later appearing in colour on a later colour model of Macintosh. Microsoft bought the software later in 1987 and in 1990 the Microsoft version was produced and has been part of the Microsoft Office...

leofluffy69 20.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Complete package

The Best Application suit for Buissness.

Advantages: Friendly Interface, Easy To Use , Very Attractive
Disadvantages: Only Works On Xp

...I am writing again this review due to some grammar problems in last review and many of my friends told me to write it again so Friends here is the review with grammar setting again. From where I buy: I buyed it from eBay by contacting a member and you wont believe that I get it only for 85 pounds and it works great and every thing is going very well I love that suit and now I am using the all application programs of this suit very well and very efficiently if you want to buy that suit between the range of 70-100 pounds email to mmasuperstore@yahoo.co.uk may be you will also find the suit at cheap rates. What Includes In That Suit: I get Word, Excel, Access , PowerPoint ,FrontPage, Visio , Info path, Picture manager and One note 2003. Wow!! Little Description about It: The New thing in this suit is the advance usage...

jahanzeb 19.10.2004 (20.10.2004) · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 Complete package

The Office

Advantages: Funny, nice love story, comedy
Disadvantages: None

...The Office has to be one of the funniest sitcoms of recent times. Any one who has ever worked in an office environment can relate I think to the situations the actors find themselves in and probably have a similar story of their own as well. I think this is one of the reasons why it is so funny and became so successful. The Office I think was different because it approached the sitcom genre in an interesting way by having the format of a documentary. The office in question was that of Wernham Hogg Paper Company based in Slough, Berkshire. They had a camera crew in the office that basically filmed their every day lives in the office and all the drama and relationships that come with that. Like I?ve said, even though the show was made in the form of a documentary the show was fictional and scripted. It was interesting though because...

Spottydog11 28.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Office - Series 1 Series 1 (Wide Screen) (DVD)

Complete Overhaul of the Office Suite

Advantages: Ease of use, Fantastic AutoFormats & Increased Features
Disadvantages: Experienced users will find it hard at the start to find known features

... Outlook has changed the least of the packages as it retains its menus and tollbars at least at the front end. When you create or open an email, appoitnment, contact or task the Ribbon is then available. This allows some previous hidden features like Delivery Receipts, Font Styles and Categories to be more accessable. For those of you that have or want access to your colleagues' Outlook it is now much easier to Share your contacts and calendar. Conclusion From the slick use of screen space, through to the ever increasing number of functions this version or Office is a must have for any regular user. If you are proficient in any of the packages there will be some start up frustration as you learn where your previous known features are now placed but once you familiarise yourself you will wonder how...

JudithJubilee 16.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Office Professional 2007

An office package that's FREE

Advantages: FREE, loads of features, cross platform, supports some Microsoft Office files
Disadvantages: Can be difficult to learn if all you've used is Microsoft Office

...Many people use there PC's as general purpose machines (for movies, games, writing etc) and therefore a good office package is a must. But which one, and how much do you want to pay? From reading opinions on Ciao it seems that most people are using a version of the Microsoft Office suite, which is now in it's XP version. The problem with Microsoft Office is it's price, at £300 plus for the new basic XP package. There are other office suites available, notably the Lotus Smartsuite package, but there is an equally viable package that's available and it's FREE. That's right FREE - no charge. StarOffice 5.2 is now developed by Sun, and is a multi-platform full office suite that offers some comapatability with Microsoft Office (ie it will read and save Word 95/97 documents) but unfortunately MO doesn't support StarOffice files. StarOffice...

cjkace 03.05.2001 · Read review
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