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Developing a New Office 2003 Research Library

Another lesser-known highlight of Office 2003 is the built-in Research pane. The Research pane is one of several panes that are available (for instance, the default pane available in Word when you create a new document is the New Document pane, which suggests the various types of document templates that you can use. Built in to the Research pane in Office 2003 are research and query capabilities for the Dictionary, Thesaurus, Translation, Encarta Encyclopedia, MSN Search, Stock Quotes, Company Profiles, and so on. Office 2003 also provides a capability for developing a customized Research pane that can be used within a company or provided as a service. For instance, because customers are probably ...