MS Office Small Business Edition 2003 - version upgrade package

Solve the challenges of running a small business with Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003, the personal and business productivity solution. Use this collection of familiar, integrated, and easy-to-use programs to help manage customers and sales opportunities more effectively, create impressive sales and marketing materials in-house, and handle e-mail messages and share information efficiently and more securely.

Here are the top 10 reasons to upgrade to Office Small Business Edition 2003.

Track your business contact information in one familiar place. Use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager, an add-on to Outlook 2003, to have one place to manage all your business contact information and track key information about sales opportunities, accounts, and individual business contacts. This single-user contact management solution can help you take full advantage of Outlook 2003, the contact and e-mail program you already use.

Manage sales leads and opportunities. Stay on top of opportunities and maximize sales potential by more effectively tracking leads using Business Contact Manager. Create a contact page containing essential information for every business opportunity; set reminders, rules or alerts to follow up; and store other data as the relationship evolves.

Create and publish impressive sales and marketing materials. Microsoft Office Publisher 2003, the business publishing and marketing solution, makes it easy to create compelling sales and marketing publications for print, Web, and e-mail. Promote your business with professional-quality newsletters, brochures, Web sites, marketing e-mail messages, catalogs, and other materials that you can create in-house.

Build publications from a database. Use the Catalog Merge Wizard in Publisher 2003 to create a new publication or update text and images in a merged publication with just a few clicks. The wizard merges images and text from a data source - such as Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Access - to build a publication. It's a great tool for creating catalogs, price lists, address books, directories, datasheets, and other publications that get updated frequently.

Efficiently connect with your customers online. Use Publisher 2003 to easily and cost effectively create and send attractive e-mail publications or newsletters that look great whether your recipient is using Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, or other popular e-mail clients. Give your business a Web presence with the new Easy Web Site Builder wizard and dozens of other Web enhancements.

Create multimedia business presentations. Create compelling multimedia presentations with streaming audio and video using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, included in Office Small Business Edition 2003. Expand your multimedia capabilities and create more compelling results using playback controls, a wide range of static and streaming audio and video formats, and full-screen video presentations during slide shows. Publish your presentation to the Web or copy it onto a CD using the Package for CD feature.

Handle e-mail messages more efficiently. Handle messages more efficiently and respond to changing business conditions more quickly with enhanced Outlook 2003 e-mail capabilities. Improvements such as the larger reading area, Mail Desktop Alert, Quick Flags, and Search Folders can help you spend less time reading, organizing, searching for, and responding to e-mail messages.

Help increase security and privacy while reducing junk e-mail messages and viruses. Increased security measures in Outlook 2003 - such as blocking incoming messages that may contain viruses, blocking Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) images to prevent e-mail address validation, and improved rules to reduce junk e-mail messages - can help reduce the time you spend managing e-mail messages.

Access templates, clip art, training courses, and how-to articles. Microsoft Office Online provides time-saving and helpful tools and resources, including how-to articles, training, templates, clip art, and product updates. Employees and managers can get the help they need to increase productivity and get maximum impact from Office Small Business Edition 2003 and other Microsoft Office System products.

Support information sharing - internally and with partners. Improve teaming, partnering, and project visibility with shared workspaces - created from programs in Microsoft Office 2003 Editions and based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. These collaboration Web sites provide centralized workspaces where virtual teams can work together in real time to share, modify, and review files.