Microsoft Works Suite 2003 [OLD VERSION]

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000069IL7
• Item model number: B11-00711
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 12, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,363 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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  #25 in	Software > Business & Office > Word Processing
  #86 in	Software > Business & Office > Office Suites

• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Works Suite 2003 provides six Microsoft software titles for your home PC for one low price. Works Suite brings together the full versions of Microsoft Word, Works, Money Standard, Encarta Standard, Picture It! Photo, and Streets & Trips all in one, easy-to-use package.

Works Suite puts a ton of tools at your fingertips. Hundreds of new, stylish templates are available to quickly start and complete virtually any personal or organizational task. The My Projects organizer gives you step-by-step help to complete small or large projects like planning an event, family reunion, fundraiser, school project, moving, and much more.

The software gives you better ways to organize the household, manage finances, edit and enhance photos, send greetings, do research, and get directions and maps. The quick-start Task Launcher home page gives you quick access to your schedule, to-do list, and most recently used Works Suite programs. Manage personal finances and track investments with Microsoft Money. Plus, edit photos, create fun photo projects, and easily share memories with Picture It! Photo.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

40 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Microsoft Works Suite 2003, what!, October 18, 2002

By	Andre Da Costa "A.Da Costa" (Jamaica W.I.) - See all my reviews

I continually stress MS Works Suite as being an excellent product for the money concious consumer. Offering an excellent set of programmes from Word-Processing to simple Photo-Editing solutions. Still I do not know why Microsoft decided to release a new version of Works so early considering version 2002 was just released last year. I think Microsoft should have at least waited until Microsoft Word 2004 was released but I guess Microsoft was thinking about it's revenue for 2003. Over all for users who want programmes that are easy to use and get's the job done, please consider. With Microsoft Word 2002, an excellent word-processor that produces professional looking documents and whizzy school reports, it's really worth the price. The Works programmes such as the spreadsheet and database as I continue to stress are not as powerful as Excel and Access but will suffice, they do get the job done though.
Encarta 2003 is also included and as always this reference material bursting with information is always worthy of getting the latest version, with up to date, current, intuitive, concise and articulated information for both the student and the regular user who has interest in a particular topic. Picture It! Photo is a fun photo-editing solution that takes the pain out of editing and perfecting photos with such features as adding perfect lighting or removing red eyes in pictures, but do not consider this a professional photo-editor, try Adobe Photoshop Elements instead, much more powerful. With other great features for creating greeting cards or other great art and craft material it's commendable. Money 2003 is well updated for the money organizer in the family, and with features that are very much internet integrated allowing users to pay bills online provide users with informative tutorials on how to save money and budget one's self properly. Streets and Trip always keep's on getting better with features that make users find their way. It's beginning to compare itself to the high-end app Microsoft MapPoint.
Should you purchase?
If you recently spent money buying Works Suite 2002, don't worry to upgrade to this yet, wait six month's to a year, their is really no reason to rush but if you are still using a previous version of Works Suite prior to version 2002 it's a worthy upgrade. For version 2002 users the reason why I don't recommend you upgrade is because of Microsoft's unpredictable upgrade cycle just as you might purchase this version of Works Suite, news about Works Suite 2004 start's circulating, I don't want you to make any mistakes wasting your money, here.

35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars nifty little programs for the average user, October 29, 2002

By	Deborah MacGillivray "Author," (US & UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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Microsoft Works gives you the same version of Word 2003 as Office, something all students will need; you give a really super photo/paint shop program in Picture it Express (I use PSP for most stuff, but found this a super easy to use paint program that does many of the same things PSP and actually has better lettering that PSP); you get Encarta, great for the kids homework; you get money standard; you get Streets and Cities.

Picture It alone cost around [money], so this is a super buy with programs the whole family will use and save hundreds of dollars.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars If you like things illogical try Microsoft Works Suite 2003., February 17, 2003

By A Customer

1. The address book that is included is only accessible from Outlook Express, not from the integrated MS Word software. So what good is a word processor that cannot access an address book for printing envelops or doing a mail merge? From what I could find on the internet this was done by design. The logic of this is incomprehensible, or perhaps reprehensible.
2. If you are unfortunate enough to have generated an address file using the works spreadsheet program you cannot read it using Word to generate mailing labels. You can, however, use Excel files with Word, but MS Works does not include Excel, just the decontented Excel they call the Works spreadsheet. So lucky you, you get to convert the file to Excel 97 or earlier before its readable by Word.
3. Avoid using the "helpful" task descriptions under the Works program tab for mail merge. It won't work. Go directly to Word with your "converted" works spreadsheet file.
4. It would be faster and less frustrating to address labels with a pencil.