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| Microsoft Office Professional 2003 [OLD VERSION] | ![Microsoft Office Professional 2003 [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MKGY964ML._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $499.99
Buy New: $91.50
You Save: $408.49 (82%)
New (22) Used (3) from $84.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  69 reviews
Sales Rank: 7
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Professional
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 9.8 x 2
MPN: 269-06738
Model: 269-06738
UPC: 805529627529
EAN: 0805529627529
ASIN: B0000AZJVC
Release Date: October 21, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Best Office so far, ignore the price for just one minute.... January 27, 2004
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Office 2003 is well worth upgrading to, without a doubt. Unlike other software like Norton 2004, which is a nightmare to upgrade to...... aaaaaanyway, I got Office 2003 for free, professional, and it was the enterprise edition, as I work at a university which provides software. The features may not be entirely new, but everything is much easier to use, and the programs themselves look different from 2000 or 2002/XP. WARNING: ONLY WORKS ON WINDOWS 2000 AND XP. Also, it has some form of product activation on the CD, so you can only install on one computer. If you've got the money, then I would buy Office 2003... if you can get it from a friend for $25 instead of $500, definitely do that. I personally don't think Office is worth $500, but it IS a very good piece of software.
 TIP: Take a class (anywhere) and buy for $189 December 19, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I like the upgrades to MS Office - especially in Excel and PowerPoint. It all seems to work better, though there are still some glitches in Word that are aggravating. Images in long-ish documents tend to be difficult to move around - it takes some special effort to get them to stop skipping mindlessly all over the place.Tip: at +$400, this is very expensive for most folks. But you can buy it for well under $200 with an educational discount as long as you take a class somewhere. Take a community college course for $35 (wordworking, basketweaving, - anything) and you're paid registration receipt will make you eligible for an educational discount. Not sure if Amazon sells this way, but there are several online retailers who specialize in educational products.
 Too expensive December 1, 2003
54 out of 80 found this review helpful
If you have to use MS Windows, you have a binary choice when it comes to office suites:1. Open/StarOffice
2. MS Office The first one is great, but is way too slow and its *.doc and *.xls converter is not perfect. The second is really fast -- Word 2003 on P4 1.5G 1G RAM loads in two seconds. But... the professional edition, which is what you want/need/desire costs way too much. I was able to buy it only because I am a student so I get 50% discount on software. In other words, why would anyone pay $500 for an office suite? And if you have four computers at your home (like me), then you can't even install it on all of them (actually, you can install office on your desktop and laptop for non concurent use only). Thanks God I use Linux at home, so I have no other alternative than to use free software ;-) But... if you do use MS Windows at home and you have money to pay for it and it does not really bother you, then you are getting a really good piece of software. I have been using it for a while and it runs smoothly even on XP inside a VM. However, I would like to see MS adding OneNote and FrontPage to the professional edition, so you feel that spending $500 was worth it. I give it only three stars not because of the software quality, which is really good, but because of the price, which for people like me is just to high, and licensing.
 don't do it! November 30, 2003
25 out of 63 found this review helpful
expensive, not backwards compatable
Not a happy experience!
Buyer beware November 26, 2003
60 out of 84 found this review helpful
One of the worst products that came out of Microsoft, it is not backward compatible, it can't recognize any controls from excel 2000, as soon as I started an excel 2000 file in it (after lowering the macro security) it started giving me error, cannot reference the object etc. and was unwilling to stop the debugging. I have to end the task. This happened with practically all my excel 2000 spreadsheets, in some it doesn't recognize the ActiveX controls from previous version, in some cases references. I checked the reference under tools and excel 2000 reference objects were not there. At last I had to uninstall office 2003 and install office 2000 in my new PC. It is frustrating to see how Microsoft is using their monopoly in office application to squeeze as much as they can. It essentially means that one has to go on paying MS $400+ every year for new versions and over that have to redo their whole applications (excel, access etc.) in order for it to work. It definately doesn't increase productivity.
I must agree I should have listened to the other comments and should have thought of converting to OpenOffice but now it is too late for me but not for you I hope. I have finally started to migrate to Openoffice though slowly, I will also recommend to others to do the same if they want to stop paying Microsoft money everyyear for softwares that doesn't work.
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