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Mohammad Abdullah 2010-e37 MBA (3rd quarter) I.T. Application package. What Are The Differences Between Microsoft Office 2003 & Microsoft Office 2007? Mr. Adeel Ahmed 15-08-2011

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INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF BALUSHISTAN QUATTA.

Microsoft Office 2003

Microsoft Office 2003

Clockwise from top-right: Word, Publisher, PowerPoint, Excel, on Windows XP.

Developer(s)

Microsoft

Initial release

October 21, 2003

Stable release

2003 Service Pack 3 (11.0) / September 18, 2007; 3 years ago

Operating system

Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 and 4, and Windows XP/Windows Server 2003

Platform

Microsoft Windows

Type

Office suite

License

Proprietary EULA

Website

Microsoft Office Online Home Page

Microsoft Office 2003 is a productivity suite written and distributed by Microsoft for their Windows operating system. Released on October 21, 2003, it was the successor to Office XP and the predecessor to Office 2007.A new Office logo as part of a regrinding effort by Microsoft, as well as two new applications, made their debut in Office 2003: InfoPath and OneNote. OneNote is a note-taking and organizing application for text, handwritten notes or diagrams, recorded audio and graphics. Office 2003 is the first version to use Windows XP style icons and colors. Office 2003 runs only on NT-based versions of Windows (it does not support Windows 98 or Windows Me).

Features
The core applications, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access have only minor improvements, however Outlook 2003 received a significant facelift and improved functionality in many areas, including better email and calendar sharing and information display, search folders, colored flags, Kerberos authentication, RPC over HTTP, and Cached Exchange mode. Another key benefit of Outlook 2003 is the improved junk mail filter. Tablet 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 recognizers were 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 (Dreamweaver), Flash support, WebDAV and SharePoint publishing among other features. Information Rights Management 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 managed code add-ins as VSTO solutions was introduced. Office 2003 is the last version of Office to include several features such as fully customizable toolbars and menus for all of its applications, the Office Assistant, the ability to slipstream service packs into the original setup files, Office Web Components, Save My Settings Wizard, allowing users to choose whether to keep a locally cached copy of installation source files and several utility resource kit tools. It is also the last Office version to support Windows 2000. A new picture organizer with basic editing features, called Microsoft Office Picture Manager replaced Microsoft Photo Editor. Because WinHelp has been deprecated, context-sensitive help (What's this help) is removed in Office 2003. 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 Office Online 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). The last cumulative update for Office 2003, Service Pack 3 resolves several compatibility and stability issues with Windows Vista and later operating systems. Mainstream support for Office 2003 application ended in April 2009 and extended support ends in April 2014. Office 2003 features broad XML integration (designing customized XML schemas, importing and transforming XML data) throughout resulting in a far more data-centric model (instead of a document-based one). The MSXML 5 library was introduced specifically for Office's XML integration. Office 2003 also has tight SharePoint integration to facilitate data exchange, collaborated workflow and publishing. InfoPath was introduced for collecting data in XML-based forms and templates based on information from databases.

Editions
Office Basic applications * Word Excel Outlook Yes Yes Yes Student and Teacher Edition ** Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No No Standard Small Business Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No No Yes Yes Yes with
Business Contact Manager

Professional Edition Yes Yes Yes with

Business Contact Manager

PowerPoint No Publisher No No Access InfoPath OneNote FrontPage Visio Project No No No No No

Yes Yes No No No No No No

Yes Yes Yes Volume edition only No No No No

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2003

Microsoft Office 2007

Microsoft Office 2007

Microsoft Office 2007 applications shown on Windows Vista (clockwise from top left: Excel, Word, OneNote, PowerPoint; these four programs make up the Home and Student Edition)

Developer(s)

Microsoft

Initial release

January 30, 2007

Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 Operating system Windows Vista Windows Server 2003 SP1 Windows XP with Service Pack 2

Website

microsoft.com/office/2007

Microsoft Office 2007 (officially called 2007 Microsoft Office System) is a Windows version of the Microsoft Office System, Microsoft's productivity suite. Formerly known as Office 12 in the initial stages of its beta cycle, it was released to volume license customers on November 30, 2006 and made available to retail customers on January 30, 2007. These are, respectively, the same dates Windows Vista was released to volume licensing and retail customers. Office 2007 contains a number of new features, the most notable of which is the entirely new graphical user interface called the Fluent User Interface (initially referred to as the Ribbon User Interface), replacing the menus and toolbars which have been the cornerstone of Office since its inception with a tabbed toolbar, known as the Ribbon. Office 2007 requires Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or higher, Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or higher, Windows Vista or Windows 7. Office 2007 is the last version of Microsoft Office which is officially supported on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

Features
The 'Ribbon User Interface' is a task-oriented Graphical User Interface (GUI). It features a central menu button, widely known as the 'Office Button'. The Ribbon Interface has been improved in Microsoft Office 2010.Office 2007 also includes new applications and server-side tools. Chief among these is Groove, a collaboration and communication suite for smaller businesses, which was originally developed by Groove Networks before being acquired by Microsoft in 2005. Also included is Office SharePoint Server 2007, a major revision to the server platform for Office applications, which supports "Excel Services", a client-server architecture for supporting Excel workbooks that are shared in real time between multiple machines, and are also viewable and editable through a web page. Microsoft has been removed from the Office suite entirely. It has been replaced by Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, which is aimed towards development of SharePoint portals. Its designeroriented counterpart Microsoft Expression Web is targeted for general web development. However, neither application has been included in Office 2007. However, XP users can use an earlier version of Office to use speech recognition. According to Forrester Research, as of May 2010, Microsoft Office 2007 is used in 81% of enterprises.

Microsoft Word 2007 Microsoft Excel 2007 Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Microsoft Access 2007 Microsoft InfoPath 2007 Microsoft OneNote 2007 Microsoft Outlook 2007 Microsoft Publisher 2007 Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 (Service Pack 2 Required) Microsoft Groove 2007 Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 (free, downloadable product) Microsoft Visio 2007 (not included in any Office 2007 Package) Microsoft Project 2007 (not included in any Office 2007 Package)

Editions
Table of Editions Home Programs Small and Standa Professio Ultima and Basic Busine Stude rd nal te Features ss nt OEM, OEM Retail Retail, OEM and Licensing OEM and and and Retail Retail Retail Volume Volum e Word Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Excel Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes View PowerPoint er Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes only OneNote No Yes No No No Yes Outlook Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Publisher No No No Yes Yes Yes Access No No No No Yes Yes Communica No No No No No No tor InfoPath No No No No No Yes Groove No No No No No Yes Project No No No No No No Visio No No No No No No Office Volum Volume Customizati e No No edition No No on Tool edition only (OCT) only Professio Enterpri nal Plus se

Volume

Volume

Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes1 Yes No No No Volume edition only

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes1 Yes Yes No No Volume edition only

Additional Components
Microsoft markets additional software tools as part of the Microsoft Office 2007 suite, although not included in any of the Microsoft Office 2007 editions:

Microsoft Office Project Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer Microsoft Office Visio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_2007_enterprise#Editions_and_pricing

Comparison:
When it comes to the office suites offered by Microsoft today, a large portion of the market would definitely say that Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007 would be the premier products to have This is because both of these suite applications of fer so much in terms of tools, features, applications, and the lot that make office life so much easier for the common professional. When it comes to the office suites offered by Microsoft today, a large portion of the market would definitely say that Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007 would be the premier products to have. This is because both of these suite applications offer so much in terms of tools, features, applications, and the lot that make office life so much easier for the common professional. But when you compare Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007, thats a different story. If you are one of the many people who have Microsoft Office 2003 installed on their personal computers and laptops, then you will surely be interested in what the 200 7 version has to offer you. You may think that the 2003 application is satisfactory already, which is really true. The 2003 version has indeed been quite the milestone in processing Word files, Excel sheets, and the whole shebang. But if you keep insisting that the 2003 edition is the best, then you have yet to try out the 2007 version. Because if you have already tried the 2007 version, then you just might have to change your mind about the 2003 version holding the title of the best version Microsoft has e ver produced. One of the major changes that come with the 2007 version is its digital signature. The digital signature of the recent version makes use of XMLDSig for its formatting. This is actually quite different from that of the 2003 version. If you have been training with Microsoft Office 2003 and youre now with the 2007 edition, then this will be one of the first changes you just might notice. Also, the digital signatures location has been moved. It can now be found under the File tab, Finalize Docum ent tab, and then Signatures. The 2003 version had the signature under the Tools tab before. The change has been made to make the signature easier to locate for users. Another new feature that makes a pretty interesting change is the Microsoft Office ribbon. This can actually be found at the upper left portion of the

screen. The ribbon has replaced the usual File tab that you can see in Microsoft Office 2003. The ribbon still performs the main function of the File tab, which includes Open, Save, Save As, Se nd, Print, and more. Its a feature that a lot of 2007 users welcome with open arms. Theres also the latest tabbed menu feature that makes the application very convenient to use. Remember the many drop-down menus that came with Microsoft Office 2003? These are no longer present in the 2007 version, now that there are tabbed menus all over already. The tabbed menus are all over the screen, and once you click them, the sub-menus are displayed right below. With the tabbed menus comes the hovering effect feature as well. Let us pretend you are using the Microsoft Word processor, and you wish to change the font color from black to red. All you need to do is highlight the word, and then hover over the tab that would make the change for you. Once you do ho w ever your mouse over the appropriate tab, a preview of the feature is then given, so that you would have a clear explanation of whats going to happen once the changes are implemented. This is indeed a very convenient feature! These are just some of the interesting features you will find when you compare Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007. You will surely find more engaging features for yourself as well. If you are interested in compare Microsoft office, check this web-site to learn more about document comparison.

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