With the Microsoft Office System you can use the Research task pane to insert MSN Money Stock Quote prices into your workspace.

Microsoft Office Excel 2003 and Microsoft Office Word 2003 provide extended functionality with the Office 2003 Stock Quotes Add-in which allows you to perform actions such as "Insert concise stock table" or "Insert refreshable stock data".

When you insert a table into your workspace, you can then point to it to expose the smart tag actions. You can make interesting dynamic changes such as "Display Complete table" or "View XML Structure".

1. On the Tools menu, click Research.
2. In the Search for list, click MSN Money Stock Quotes.
3. In the Search for box, type the stock symbol you want. Results appear in the Research task pane.
4. To view the insert options, scroll down to the end of the stock information.
5. Do one of the following:
   • Click Insert Price.
   • Applicable to Word and Excel only. Click the DOWN ARROW on the Insert Price button, and do one of the following:
     • Click the action you want.
     • Click Check for New Actions. You will be taken to the Microsoft Web site to download the Office 2003 Stock Actions Add-in. Follow the instructions on the page to install it, then close Internet Explorer, close any open Office products, and then reopen Word or Excel. Repeat step 1, and then click the DOWN ARROW on the Insert Price button to see new actions. Click the action you want.

Note  To get more stock quote information that you can view on the Web, under More on MSN Money in the your results list, click the option you want. Actions are not available in all languages.