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 with others - internally and
across organizations.
- Work together better. Save Word 2003 documents to shared
workspaces where other team members can get the latest version,
check the documents in or out, or even save task lists, related
documents, links, and member lists. Shared workspaces require
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 running Microsoft Windows
SharePoint Services.
- Control distribution of sensitive documents. Help protect your
company assets by preventing recipients from forwarding,
copying, or printing important documents by using information
rights management (IRM) functionality. You can even specify an
expiration date for the message, after which it cannot be viewed
or changed. IRM functionality requires Windows Server 2003
running Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS).
- Collaborate with confidence. Designate certain sections of
your document to be modified by specific people to better
protect how your document is modified and reduce the number of
conflicting comments you receive. You can even prevent reviewers
from making changes unless they turn revision marks on, or make
the entire document read-only with key portions that can be
modified only by specific individuals. Also help protect the
formatting and style of your document.
- See comments and revisions more easily. Markup features in
Word 2003 have been enhanced to make comments more visible and
offer better ways to help you track and merge changes and read
comments.
- Communicate instantly with others. No need to leave Word 2003
to find out if an instant messaging (IM) contact is online - you
can access IM and even initiate IM conversations in Word 2003.
- Go mobile. If you own and use a Tablet PC, you can annotate
Word 2003 documents using a pen input device - in your own
handwriting. You can annotate documents for personal use, such
as taking notes, or to send to others.
Capture and Reuse Information. Bring information into your
documents for more timely access to the information you need to
make good decisions.
- Create organizational solutions with XML. Word 2003 supports
both the Extensible Markup Language (XML) file format and custom
schemas, providing the basis for building solutions to business
problems such as data reporting, publishing, and submitting data
to business processes.
- Interact with business systems. Save and open XML files in
Word 2003 to integrate with key business data in your
organization. Developers can build solutions that use XML to
interact with business systems through a task pane in Word 2003.
- Customize functionality with enhanced smart tags. Smart tags
in Word 2003 are more flexible. Associate smart tags with
specific content and have the appropriate smart tag appear when
you point to the associated words.
Access Additional Productivity Resources. Quickly find the
information you need to complete your work.
- Find facts quickly. Stay in Word 2003 to do research. The
Research task pane brings electronic dictionaries, thesauri, and
online research sites into Word 2003 so that you can quickly
find information and incorporate it into your documents. Some
functionality in the Research task pane requires a connection to
the Internet. Learn more about how to do research and reference
in Office 2003 Editions.
- Get a head start on your work. Take advantage of resources on
Office Online - including professionally designed templates,
add-ins, and online training - that you can access in Word 2003.
Using Office Online requires a connection to the Internet. Learn
more about using Office Online.
- Find the help you need. From the Getting Started and Help task
panes, you can access Assistance on Office Online. It provides
help and assistance articles that are updated regularly from
requests and issues of other users. Some functionality in these
task panes requires a connection to the Internet.
- Read with greater comfort. The new Reading Layout view makes
it easier to read documents. It optimizes the document for
reading on the screen, including larger text, shorter lines, and
pages that exactly fit your screen. Microsoft ClearType produces
letter shapes that are easier to read. You can also access
specific pages quickly through the thumbnail view.
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