Microsoft Office 2003

  What's New
  Hardware/Software Requirements Compatibility
  Compatibility
  Important Warnings

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Publisher 2003 has been added to the standard Office Suite at Western. All of the Office 2003 programs contain new features with a focus on ease of use and collaboration. The most changed application is Microsoft Outlook which has a new look, added organization tools, side-by-side calendar display, and improved spam controls.

Microsoft FrontPage 2003 is no longer included in our standard Microsoft Office installation. When you install Office 2003, it will leave previously installed versions of FrontPage 2002/XP on your computer. If you would like to upgrade to FrontPage 2003, contact Software Support at 650-3159 or Software.Support@wwu.edu.

For more details,sign up for a 60 minute feature demonstration at http://west.wwu.edu/training. You may also want to explore the Microsoft comparison of features in Office 2003, Office XP and Office 2000.

If you are not sure if your computer meets these requirements, please call the ATUS Help Desk before proceeding with installation.

Backward compatibility between Office 2003, Office 2002/XP, Office 2000 assures that documents can be shared by users of all three versions. Access 2003 and Access 2002/XP use the Access 2000 file format by default. If you use Access in its default Access 2000 format, you can open and edit your database in Access 2003, 2002/XP or 2000. All editors of a shared database should use the same version.