Opinions please...

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Lorien

I have heard it said that Office 2003 is way more stable than earlier
versions.. 2003 is well worth getting, but if you can wait almost a year,
you will be able to get Office 2006.. personally, I would go for 2003 now..

 

[Lorien2733]

I am currently working with Office 2000, mostly Access. Are there enough
improvements and/or additions to the programs to make upgrading to Office2003
worthwhile? What about OfficeXP?

 

[George Nicholson]

Its really a matter of 'is Office doing what you want it to?'. Is there
anything you don't like about Office 2000? Anything you wish it did better?

FWIW, Access has (arguably) changed the least of all the Office apps since
2000. The word is that will *not* be the case in the next release (at least
for developers), due late next year. Hopefully, that is good news <g>.

The biggest advantage Office 2003 has for me is the vastly improved memory
management in Excel. I don't get "out of resources" crashes like I did with
earlier versions. On the other hand, I liked the old Help system much
better, but I don't hate the new one as much as I did at first.

HTH,

 

[Echo S]

I am currently working with Office 2000, mostly Access. Are there enough
improvements and/or additions to the programs to make upgrading to Office2003
worthwhile? What about OfficeXP?

If you use PowerPoint a lot, the improvements in animation make the upgrade
from 2000 to 2003 worthwhile.