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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
 Students and Teachers...look no further, Apr 23, 2023
Why spend a TON of money on Office XP PRO when you can have it all for just a little? If you are a student or teacher, look no further, this is for you. This full functioning office suite comes with Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook. It ONLY lacks Microsoft Access, which is a database program mostly used by professionals in that area of work. College students will likely never use it, therefore making this package perfect.
Thanks to Microsoft for keeping in mind college students and teachers and making it more possible for us to own their awesomely productive software for a reasonable price.
Enjoy
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
The bottom line is value ... why pay retail? , Mar 31, 2023
Usually, when something appears to be too good to be true, it usually is ... but not this time.
These are the full versions of the world standard word processor, spreadsheet and presentation software -- Word, Excel, and PowerPoint -- at a fraction of the retail price. And not only that, you get three licenses of each one of them.
Technically, you need to be a student to qualify, or a parent of a student, but these days that probably covers 90 percent of the U.S. population. I certainly did with two kids, but just taking a class at the local university would have qualified me, too.
Why pay extra to have Office loaded on a new computer at time of purchase when you have this low-cost option available?
The bottom line was I was able to install legal, licensed copies of all this great software on three of our home computers, both of the kids' and my own laptop -- all for less than $50 apiece. That's a super value any way you look at it.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
Terrific upgrade for those still using Office '97, Mar 6, 2023
If you are in school (full time or part time, student or teacher or professor, or staff member), if you have a parent who's in school, if you have a child who's in school, if you have a sibling who's in school, if your boyfriend or girlfriend is in school, you qualify for this edition, dude! Each copy you buy can be installed on 3 home PCs. No gimmick!
I was using Office '97 all these years. When a member of my household went back to school, we bought this new version from amazon, and we've all been very happy with the software. Do beware that you should have Windows XP, or else stick with Office '97 or '00. Office '03 runs fast and never crashes on Windows XP, and everything I loved about Office (on-the-fly spell- and grammer-checking, easy mail merge, powerful spreadsheet, lots of presentation options and features, so on) is only improved. I'm also taking my time to learn Outlook 2003. It's one sophisticated program, but it's waaaayyy better than Lotus Notes which my company uses at work. (Lotus Notes stinks!)
To be honest, the "standard" edition costs more than twice as much and I wouldn't have upgraded if I couldn't get it for this cheap. But for a hundred bucks, this is totally worth it. I got almost 10 years use out of Office '97, and I think i'll be set for the next 20 years with Office '03. So that comes out to about $2 a year per computer. Not bad.
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
Best version of Office yet, great value, Mar 3, 2023
Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003 is the academic-priced version of the "standard edition" of Office 2003. In functionality it's identical to the standard edition and comes with the four major components of Office:
- Word (word processor)
- Excel (spreadsheet)
- PowerPoint (presentation)
- Outlook (e-mail, calendar and addressbook)
Missing from this package are Publisher and Access, but very few home or educational users would need these programs, especially with regard to Access.
While you do not need to prove to Amazon or any other retailer that you are a qualified "academic user" before buying this package -- that's right, *anyone* can purchase it -- you are at legal risk if you are not a qualified user but still use it. A qualified user is:
- any student in K-12 to grad school, full-time or part-time
- any home-schooled student
- any faculty or staff of an accredited educational institution (K-12 and beyond)
- any household member of such an ademically affiliated person
So the qualifying criteria are pretty generous, and the license lets you install the software on up to three PCs in your household. The only other requirement is you not use the software for money-making purposes.
Anyway, Office 2003 as a whole is a minor upgrade from Office XP ("2002"), which was in turn a minor upgrade from Office 2000 (except for XML support, which 99% of users don't care about). The only significant upgrades were in Outlook, which simply gets better and better with time. Outlook 2002 introduced integration with Hotmail, and the new version in this package has better security and more robust e-mail support. One feature I like in particular is the ability to password-protect your Outlook data file, which was not available in Outlook 2000 and prior.
All four applications run smoothly and I'm very happy with both the performance and stability. I never had a problem with Office 2000, and hopefully I won't have any problems with Office 2003. BTW, you must be running Windows XP (either Home or Pro), or Windows 2000 with service pack 3 or later, in order to run the version sold on Amazon, which is the latest version. I also recommend at least 512MB of RAM in your PC, otherwise you'll find running multiple applications (e.g., Word and Excel at the same time) somewhat sluggish.
The software comes on a single CD-ROM and includes a 46-page getting started guide. If you are completely new to Office you may want to get a third-party book like the excellent Microsoft Office Inside Out.
If you qualify, this academic edition of Office 2003 is simply a great value. It deserves five stars for offering a rich and useful set of features and solid performance, and another five stars for being such a great value. If you don't qualify, marry or move in with someone who does! :)
PS: If you wonder whether you should use OpenOffice in lieu of Microsoft Office, let me say this. I've used the latest version of OpenOffice and, one, it's far inferior in design and functionality to Microsoft Office, and two, it's not very compatible with real Office documents, even for some simple Word files. Don't subject yourself to the cruelty of half-baked software. Get the real thing.
10 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
 Far too expensive, stick with OpenOffice, Feb 26, 2023
While Microsoft Office may be ever-so-slightly easier to use, it remains much less functional than the free, open source, OpenOffice by the Sun Microsystems community. It also remains extremely overpriced, even the Student Teacher Edition.
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