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Chapter 1 An Overview of Office 2003
What’s New in Office 2003
If you read enough computer magazines and Web sites, you might conclude—mistakenly—
that Office 2003 is just another ho-hum upgrade. According to the conventional wisdom,
Office 2003 isn’t all that different from Office XP, which wasn’t all that different from Office
2000, and it’s hard to imagine why anyone would want to upgrade.
We beg to differ.
We’ve spent nearly a year working with Office 2003, beginning with the earliest test ver-
sions and ending with the final code you’re running right now. We used Word 2003 to write
this book, we kept track of its many pieces using Excel 2003, ...