Microsoft Excel 2003 Upgrade [OLD VERSION]

by Microsoft

Product Features

• Reads data in any customer defined XML schema, without reformatting; you can manipulate XML data sources using charts, tables or graphs
• Spreadsheets can be saved in a native XML file format, searchable by a program using industry standard XML
• New visual XML mapping tool maps user-specified XML schema to fields in an Excel spreadsheet
• Analyzes data better, with enhanced collinearity detection, sum of squared deviation calculation, normal distributions, and continuous probability distribution functions
• Enhanced Smart Tags appear only when you hover the mouse over a defined range of cells

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 8 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0000AZJV7
• Item model number: 065-03867
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 12, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,509 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #16 in Software > Business & Office > Spreadsheet
  • #50 in Software > Business & Office > Database

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Excel 2003 enables you to turn data into information with powerful tools to analyze, communicate, and share results. Excel 2003 can help you work better in teams, and help protect and control access to your work. In addition, you can work with industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) data to make it easier to connect to business processes.

Capture and reuse data: bring key business data into your spreadsheets for more timely access to the information you need to make good decisions.

• Take advantage of data wherever it exists. Excel 2003 can read data in any customer-defined XML schema without reformatting. You can analyze and manipulate XML data sources using charts, tables, or graphs.
• Develop your own data solutions. Experienced Excel users can use the new visual XML mapping tool to map a user-specified XML schema to fields in an Excel 2003 spreadsheet.
• Analyze data better. Excel 2003 builds on its commitment to reliable and accurate numerical analysis with enhancements in collinearity detection, calculations of sum of squared deviations, normal distributions, and continuous probability distribution functions.
• Customize functionality with enhanced smart tags. Smart tags in Excel 2003 are more flexible. Associate smart tag actions with a specific section of a spreadsheet and have the smart tag appear only when you hover the mouse over the associated range of cells.
• Interact with business systems. Developers can build document-based solutions that take advantage of the XML support in Excel 2003. For example, they can program task panes to display relevant tasks and information to help automate business processes.

Share information with confidence: work together effectively--internally and with other organizations--and help protect against the misuse of sensitive company information.

• Work together better. Save Excel 2003 spreadsheets to shared workspaces where other team members can get the latest version and save task lists, related files, links, and member lists. Shared workspaces require Microsoft Windows Server 2003 running Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.
• Edit lists in Windows SharePoint Services. Integration with Windows SharePoint Services allows you to compose lists in Excel 2003 spreadsheets and transfer them to Windows SharePoint Services sites for easier editing. You can edit the lists in Excel 2003 or on the Windows SharePoint Services site.
• Control distribution of your work. Help protect company assets by preventing recipients from forwarding, copying, or printing important spreadsheets using information rights management (IRM) functionality. You can grant others permission to view, review, or modify your spreadsheet, and you can set an expiration date, after which others cannot view or change it. IRM functionality requires Windows Server 2003 running Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS).

Increase productivity: be mobile and access information that can help you create the best spreadsheets possible.

• Stay focused on your work. Find facts easily without leaving Excel 2003 by using the new Research task pane. It brings electronic dictionaries, thesauri, and online research sites into Excel 2003 to help you find information and incorporate information into your spreadsheets. Some functionality in the Research task pane requires a connection to the Internet.
• Find the help you need. From the Getting Started and Help task panes, you can access Assistance on Microsoft 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.
• Go mobile. If you own and use a Tablet PC, you can use digital ink markup to annotate Excel 2003 spreadsheets in your own handwriting using a pen input device. You can take notes or send comments to others.

Product Description

Microsoft Excel 2003 transforms data into information, with powerful tools to analyze and share results. Excel 2003 can help your team work together better, and helps to protect and control access to your work. Information Rights Management ( IRM ) functionality prevents information recipients from forwarding, copying or printing spreadsheets. Supports digital ink markup with optional Tablet PC.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars stick with excel 2003, March 5, 2007

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Dave "Fantasy Fan" (Victoria, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Excel 2003 Upgrade [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I love excel and have run excel 2003 for years - but I sure don't like excel 2007 - the menus are busy, over-developed and non intuitive - and you can't modify them back to the "classic" look and feel - what a step backward - I'm throwing away the money I put into buying 2007 and getting 2003 back - it's a super program, but 2007 is a real step backwards interface and useability wise. Buy 2003 if you have the chance - it might be forced out sometime - then I go to a mac running XP and I'll stay non upgraded.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars When Will They Lower The Price?, January 9, 2007

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asfhgwt (PA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Excel 2003 Upgrade [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Essentially, we were forced to purchase this upgrade to fix some problems with complex, macro-laden spreadsheets. It worked, but IMHO the price of this three-year-old software is too high. Every other similar product's price gets lower over time, but not Microsoft's products. I don't know why some other company doesn't copy their original formula, namely, creating similar software at a lower price that reads (and co-opts) the competiton's datafiles.

5.0 out of 5 stars Things go down hill after this version, December 24, 2011

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nimrodnitram - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Microsoft Excel 2003 Upgrade [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

For me, this is the last uncluttered version of Excel. I made them uninstall Excel 2007 at work and put this version back. I am an expert Excel user and VBA programmer and don't appreciate having to dig through all of the new choices in new menus to get where I used to go with one keystroke. Why can't Microsoft make things simple like Apple?