Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 Description:

Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 review:
4 stars (Good product) - This is an upgrade for me. I've used MS Office for years and find it adequate for my needs. There are some automatic features in the newer versions that irritate me and they are not always easy to fix.
4 stars (Be sure of what you need) - There are many versions of Office, so be careful to order the one you need. For example, unless you are using Access databases you can save some money by going with the Small Business Edition instead of Professional, and still have rudimentary database and list functionality with Outlook, Excel, Word, plus PowerPoint and Publisher.



As to whether the version upgrade is worthwhile, personally I think it is. We have a small office with some machines on 2000, some on XP, and some on 2003 (depending on date of pruchase). I'm looking forward to getting them all standardized on the 2003 version.
4 stars (Outlook 2003 is the big upgrade for me. Do you need the rest?) - Now that outlook does not download images by default. Spammers cannot tell if you opened up their email. And, for the same reason, if you like auto preview but turned it off because of potential malicious code you can fell more comfortable using it again. Another big help for those of you who use rules but had to keep your entire folder tree open to see if you have new email. Now there is an unread email view which groups by folder. Make sure you flag emails for follow up, because if you start using your unread folder view as you used your inbox in the past, read emails will disappear and you will forget to respond. Not to worry there is a follow up view as well.



As for the other apps I have not used them to the extent that I use Outlook. I only run into new features as I need them and I just have not needed any other new features.