This page compares some of the functionality in different Office 2003 Editions. Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 and Microsoft Office Professional Enterprise Edition 2003 offer some enhanced functionality.
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Extensible Markup Language
Define the structure and content of a file so you or your company can efficiently index, search, combine, and reuse text-based information. Define your own Extensible Markup Language (XML) schemas—how you want data organized and presented within your company.
| Office Professional Editions |
All other Office 2003 Editions |
You can create customized XML schemas or use the XML file formats in Microsoft Office Excel 2003 and Microsoft Office Word 2003.
Support for customer-defined XML schemas in Excel 2003 and Word 2003 enables more information creation, capture, exchange, and reuse. Save, edit, and retrieve information by defining your own XML tags or using industry standard tags, depending on your business needs. While opening and saving documents, customize how the data can be formatted.
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You can use only the XML file formats that are included in Excel 2003 and Word 2003. These formats carry only formatting information and do not specify the "meaning" of the content. The contents of these files can be manipulated and searched using any program that can process industry-standard XML. Information can be extracted from the saved files and reused by another file or content management system.
Open Customer-Defined Schema Files
Excel 2003 or Word 2003 files created in Office Professional Edition 2003 with a customer-defined XML format can be opened and printed. Edits of these files in other editions of Excel 2003 and Word 2003 will not keep the custom-defined XML tags.
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Information rights management
This technology enables you to define how a recipient can use information in your file, such as who can open, modify, print, forward, or take other actions with the file. Permissions can be granted to an individual recipient or to a group. These permissions stay with the information no matter where it goes. Learn more about helping toprotect information with information rights management (IRM).
Note IRM functionality is only available in Excel 2003, Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, and Word 2003.
| Office Professional Editions |
All other Office 2003 Editions |
Create IRM-protected e-mail messages and files, defining who can open the information, along with defining various permissions such as read only, editing, and other actions.
Apply company-defined templates to your information, providing a quick and easy way to protect access and use the information while complying with company policies.
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You can only open, edit, save, and print IRM-protected files and e-mail messages when given the appropriate permissions.
You cannot create new rights-protected documents or e-mail messages, or modify the permissions on existing rights-protected files.
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Smart documents
Developers can create XML-based solutions in Excel 2003 and Word 2003 that provide helpful commands or data. For example, when you're working on a business report, a smart document can offer to automatically fill in information such as name and address, or offer help. It can also provide access to useful data, such as related charts or graphs.
| Office Professional Editions |
All other Office 2003 Editions |
| Users can open and use smart documents.
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Users can only open and print smart document. Changes can not be saved.
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Windows SharePoint List data support
Edit Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services lists using Excel 2003. If the list is linked to a Windows SharePoint Services site, any changes made to the data in the Excel worksheet are reflected in the Windows SharePoint Services site when synchronized.
| Office Professional Editions |
All other Office 2003 Editions |
| The Windows SharePoint Datasheet List Control makes an Excel-like editing experience available in a browser for editing content in Windows SharePoint Services. The Datasheet Control is the quickest and easiest way to edit SharePoint list data.
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You can only edit Windows SharePoint list data by using Web forms in the Windows SharePoint Services interface. Editing SharePoint lists in Excel 2003 is only available with Office Professional Edition 2003.
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Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System
Build document-based solutions for Excel 2003 and Word 2003. Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System provides advances in building solutions with better language choice, security, deployment, and integrated development environment (IDE). Learn more about Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System.
| Office Professional Editions |
All other Office 2003 Editions |
| Build solutions using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 and the Microsoft .NET Framework. Add functionality to Excel 2003 and Word 2003 files opened with Office Professional Edition 2003.
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Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office will not install or work on a computer with other Office 2003 Editions. Solutions built using Visual Studio Tools for Office will also not work unless you are using Office Professional Edition 2003.
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