Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003 Upgrade [Old Version]

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Product Features

• Centralized management of customer and prospect information
• More than 20 preformatted business reports
• Easy-to-use wizards to create e-mail news-letters and printed marketing materials
• Free access to business templates, clip art, and multimedia content
• Junk e-mail filtering and blocking of unsafe attachments

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000AZJVE
• Item model number: 588-02638
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 12, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,463 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003 is a personal and business productivity solution that enables small-business employees to more effectively manage customers and sales opportunities, create impressive sales and marketing materials, and manage e-mail and share information efficiently and securely—all through familiar, integrated and easy-to-use software. It also provides access to partners and Office Online for additional solutions, training and support.

Key Features:

• centralized management of customer and prospect information
• more than 20 preformatted business reports
• easy-to-use wizards to create e-mail news letters and printed marketing materials
• free access to business templates, clip art, and multimedia content
• junk e-mail filtering and blocking of unsafe attachments

Why Small Business Edition?

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003: Lower marketing costs by creating, designing, and publishing your own marketing materials for print, Web, and e-mail campaigns.

Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager: Stay organized and increase sales by consolidating, managing, and following up on important customers, business contacts, and sales opportunities. More Secure, Manageable E-mail: Get better management of your e-mails with junk e-mail filters for enhanced protection.

Upgrade Eligibility

Determine whether your current version of Microsoft Office qualifies you for the upgrade price. The following products qualify:

• Microsoft Office XP: Office XP Developer, Office XP Professional with FrontPage., Office XP Professional Special Edition, Office XP Professional with Publisher, Office XP Professional, Office XP Small Business Edition, Office XP Standard
• Microsoft Office 2000: Office 2000 Developer, Office 2000 Premium, Office 2000 Professional, Office 2000 Small Business Edition, Office 2000 Standard
• Microsoft Office 97: Office 97 Professional, Office 97 Small Business Edition (version 2), Office 97 Small Business Edition (version 1), Office 97 Standard
• Microsoft Works: Works Suite 20061, Works Suite 2004, Works Suite 2003, Works Suite 2002, Works Suite 2001, Works 2000, Works 8.0, Works 7.0, Works 6.0

The upgrade includes:

• Microsoft Office Word 2003
• Microsoft Office Excel 2003
• Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
• Publisher 2003

Product Description

Efficiently manage customer data, create marketing materials in-house and communicate effectively



Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003 uses familiar, integrated,easy-to-use software to help you manage customers and sales opportunities moreeffectively, create marketing materials in-house, manage e-mail, and shareinformation efficiently.

 

• Gather customer information in one place
  Manage all business activity in one place, including e-mail messages, appointments, phone calls, tasks, notes, and documents.
• Business Contact Manager
  Use Business Opportunities in Business Contact Manager to follow up on sales leads and opportunities more consistently throughout your sales cycle.
• Create impressive marketing materials
  Reduce marketing costs and save time by using Publisher 2003 to create and publish sales and marketing materials in-house for print, Web, and e-mail.
• Spam and virus control in Outlook 2003
  Protect your PCs and network from Spam and viruses with improved Spam filters. Trusted Sender lists let you limit received e-mail to known sources.
• Take advantage of Office Online
  Rely on the Microsoft Office Online Web site to provide updates, time-saving how-to articles, templates, clipart, and user assistance materials.

• Excel -  Analyze and share critical bus

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

54 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This upgrade will make your Small Business a Big Business, October 22, 2003

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

Word 2003 includes development tools that add dynamic features to documents making them powerful than ever. The power beneath all this is XML, allowing the user to embed components for updating data in documents such as stock quotes. Word 2003 offers simple, familiar yet improved features regular users are accustomed to. Majority of the features in Word 2003 are aimed primarily toward businesses and the Enterprise. But are still necessary for the average user because of the control over information across all the Office applications. Tools such as Information Rights Management (IRM), (this controls the flow of information to specific users), persons can be restricted on how they use your Office files; whether it's printing or sharing, very powerful! Reading view is an enhanced mode of print preview; documents are laid out in virtual pages reducing the need to print. The Task Pane is also improved by offering resources to look up information on a particular topic being typed; this is a feature across the core Office applications. Lots of other great features make Word 2003 a worthy upgrade.

Excel is a XML mammoth because of the integration with the language. The ability to migrate data between different storage sources and extraction of information to make it flexible in different scenarios. Tables can be transferred back and forth between applications such Word with ease. Excel can continually use the tables from documents as a data source for further expandability. It's the flexibility for data exchange that makes Excel 2003 very powerful.

Outlook, is so revamped, this alone is a worthy upgrade. Three panes in Outlook 2003 make e-mail an enjoyable experience. The Mail Pane holds all of the necessary tools found in prior versions of Outlook such as the Outlook Bar, and the different folders such as inbox, calendar, etc. The second pane gives an expanded view of the different items listed in the Mail Pane, like your incoming mail, contacts and calendar, which makes reading these information resources easier on the eye and productive by providing a better view. Reading your e-mail in the third pane (Preview Pane), the user views the message in portrait layout, more content is seen compared to prior versions. Its even better to view e-mails with "Clear Type" turned on for Windows XP users. Other features such as improved Virus and Spam protection makes Outlook 2003 a great upgrade. Outlook is not placed on the desktop by default, it can also be minimized to the system tray in Windows, for users connected to an Exchange Server, this displays all the network settings available.

PowerPoint 2003 offers the same features of version 2002, but what makes it an enticing upgrade is the package to CD feature that allows users to save presentations onto CD-ROMS. The PowerPoint Viewer included with each Package to CD allows it to be played on other computer systems even if PowerPoint is not installed. Windows media integration is also in PowerPoint 2003, which makes watching presentations more fun and exciting. The effects are fantastic when combined with these elements. The ability to integrate videos into Presentations to create home movies has long been a request of users, even if they have a DVD burner. For the PowerPoint 2000 user this is a worthy upgrade that provides simple yet Powerful tools to take presentation graphics to a new level.

Publisher has become a mainstream Office application because of its integration with other Office programs. It connects to product databases; the Mail Merge feature is much improved because it's the same one as Microsoft Word, which offers greater ease of use. The Start Center is awesome, which makes starting publications an organized experience for the user. The interface is less cluttered and more customizable. You can rename pages like Workbooks for better searching, if you are typing large publications. The website features are easier to use; it provides satisfactory integration with FrontPage, for converting websites created in Publisher. With a total of 45 design master sets, users can create attractive e-mails that are fully compatible with many messaging services. The ability to merge data sources using text and images is great. Compatibility goes back to Publisher 2000, which is a draw back for users who might be using Publisher 98 or under.

Outlook Business Contact Manager is an application that offers features for Small Businesses for generating customer reports and e-mailing customers.
Picture Manager has replaced Photo-Editor; it has better image editing tools, more functionality and ease of use.

Office 2003 is a worthy upgrade for many users, especially persons still in an existing Office 97 or 2000 user base. The tools it provides offers a powerful productivity experience that makes information accessible, controllable and connected for you the user.

The suite and all the Office 2003 applications are supported only on Windows 2000 Service Pack 3, Windows XP all editions.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love it... But one HUGE problem..., November 22, 2004

By	The Deal Miser! "jmgross9999" (Berlin, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

Howdy, I just wanted to share one BIG problem I've encountered. The "Business Contact Manager" (comes on a seperate disk) is NOT compatable with ANY version of "Intellisync". So, If you use a Palm device, you will not be able to use the Business Contact Manager and be able to sync your Palm on the same computer. Just wanted to give everyone a fair warning...

19 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars MICROSOFT - TERRIBLE SUPPORT, February 11, 2004

By A Customer

I made a terrible mistake in purchasing this upgrade. Having spent a total of 14 hours on phone with Microsoft Technical Support they were unable to get my PC to accept the upgrade. Microsoft grudgingly admitted they have a lot of glitches with Office 2003 and they plan to ship a revision on February, 28 2004. Meantime, Microsoft refused to issue a refund or offer any type of amicable solution. My battle with the 6,000 lb gorilla continues.