Microsoft® Office Excel® 2003 Overview Microsoft Office Excel 2003 contains powerful tools to help you analyze, manage, and share critical business data. You can also work with industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) data to make it easier to connect to business processes. Features Take advantage of data wherever it is Excel 2003 can read data in any customer-defined XML schema. You can analyze XML data sources using charts, tables, or graphs. Analyze data better Excel 2003 builds on its commitment to reliable and accurate numerical analysis with enhancements in collinearity detection and more. Collaborate using Windows® SharePoint™ Services Save Excel 2003 spreadsheets to shared workspaces, where team members can get the latest version and save task lists, related files, and more. Gather information without leaving your spreadsheet The Research Task Pane helps you quickly find and add information from electronic dictionaries, reference materials, and online research sites. Control distribution of your work Use Information Rights Management (IRM) functionality to prevent recipients from forwarding, copying, or printing important spreadsheets. System RequirementsMicrosoft Windows-based computers Processor Personal computer with an Intel Pentium 233-MHz or faster processor (Pentium III recommended) Memory 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or greater Hard Disk 150 MB of available hard-disk space; optional installation files cache (recommended) requires an additional 200 MB of available hard-disk space Drive CD-ROM or DVD drive Display Super VGA (800 × 600) or higher-resolution monitor Operating System Microsoft Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 3 (SP3), Windows XP, or later Other Microsoft Exchange Server is required for certain advanced functionality in Microsoft Office Outlook; Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 running Microsoft Windows SharePoint™ Services is required for certain advanced collaboration functionality; certain inking features require running Microsoft Office on the Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition; speech recognition functionality requires a Pentium II 400-MHz or faster processor and a close-talk microphone and audio output device; Information Rights Management features require access to a Windows 2003 Server running Windows Rights Management Services Internet Connection Internet functionality requires dial-up or broadband Internet access (provided separately); local or long-distance charges may apply