Chapter 1: Gearing Up with Word 2003

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Overview

Microsoft Office Word 2003: It's the Word you've been waiting for. New, powerful features enable you to write something once and use it many times; new collaboration enhancements make it easy to share documents and work in teams; flexible document protection tools enable you to determine who can work with the documents you create and how much changing they are allowed to do. And all these high-end capabilities (and more) are easy to find and use within the familiar-but-improved Microsoft Office System interface.

This chapter gives you a bird's-eye view of the many capabilities of Word 2003. Along the way, you'll find out about the new features in this edition of the program and get a sense of how Word 2003 can help you create professional documents for all kinds of business functions and in all kinds of circumstances.

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