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Rating:  - Excellent customer service
I was very impressed with the customer service I received. I had ordered something that would not work on my new computer and was able to return it and order the correct version. Thanks.
Rating: - Great price for all these features
Had Office XP before so the difference isn't that big. However, the price I found on here for this was too good to pass up.
Rating:  - good stuff
bought this copy after my compaq laptop died without back-up and the original system disk had windows only; no ms-office even thougth it was originally supplied by compaq
install and then update went smooth
Rating: - The best Office suite ever yet!
Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 delivers on its title's promise -- it is the ultimate office/productivity suite for the computer professional. Microsoft Office Word 2003 is a great word processor, which can create print documents (the most popular type of document today), web pages (you can save in either HTML or XML format), and much more. With it, you can use tables, columns, mathematical equations (with Microsoft Equation 3), and any other accessories for print documents and web pages. Microsoft Office Excel 2003 is an excellent spreadsheet program, which lets you create spreadsheets, web pages (again, you can work with either HTML ot XML). With it, you can use forms for Web pages, and save information in tablular format. Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 is a professional presentations application, which can be used to create presentations for print or for viewing on a computer, and save them as print publications or Web sites. With it, you can add tables, columns, hyperlinks, and more for presentations. Microsoft Office Access 2003 is a great database application, which can be used to create professional databases and save information in web pages. With it, you can work with tables, queries, forms, reports and much more for database use. Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager is an excellent comminications/schedules program which can be used for writing and reading e-mail messages, calendars, using schedules and more. With it, you can use advanced formatting with e-mail messages and work with professional schedules and calenders and manage business contacts. Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 is a professional publications application, which can be used to create Web sites and print publications. With it, you can use advanced formatting and scripting with publications. There are also some common features, namely Microsoft Equation 3 and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) 6.3 for writing scripts and macros. There is a disadvantage, however: Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 (the best program for creating web sites) is not included in the package (but can be purchased seperately). Otherwise, Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 is an ultimate Office suite, when used with Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003, which is explained earlier.
Rating:  - Not the utilitarian option
Microsoft Office can be handy to have. The files you can open, edit and create with it (most notably .doc, .xls, and .ppt) are probably the closest to universal compatibility among all your high quality options. It's (relatively) intuitive. It has a pretty broad array of useful functions.
It's also obscenely expensive, considering the fact that you can get all of these things -- .doc, .xls, and .ppt; intuitive interface; and functionality -- for free.
I hunted up OpenOffice two years ago when I decided several hundred dollars was an insane price to pay for the ability to write papers, make basic presentations, or put together spreadsheets. I was looking for basic functionality, but I was pleasantly surprised; OpenOffice does most of the neat tricks, too. (Actually, it has a neat trick Microsoft can never replicate: it's open source, so it can respond to the needs of individual users. You just say "Add this neat trick!" and someone will likely be able to do it for you.)
It is possible that Microsoft Office has some killer feature you absolutely must have that OpenOffice doesn't. But considering the price differential, I wouldn't splurge on this before checking.
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