Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 can help you and your organization communicate information with immediacy and impact. New and familiar programs along with improved functionality help you build powerful connections between people, information, and business processes. In addition to core Office 2003 programs - Word 2003, Excel 2003, and PowerPoint 2003 - the Professional Edition includes Access 2003, Publisher 2003, and Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager.

Office 2003 now fully supports XML in Word, Excel, and Access. New for 2003 is an e-mail Wizard that lets you create a variety of e-mail publication types -including newsletter, letter, and event announcement - for all 45 Master Design Sets. Plus, you can now create and manage accounts, business contacts and sales opportunities in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager.

Improved features include additional customizable pre-formatted business reports, more powerful spam filtering in Outlook, free access to the Microsoft Office Online Template Gallery and Design Gallery and the Microsoft Office Marketplace, and tools to build a variety of publication types such as catalogs by merging photos and text from data sources (such as Excel, Access or Outlook).

Information Rights Management (IRM) functionality helps protect sensitive files and e-mail messages from unauthorized access and use.