What You Need to Install the Office System

The most important things for installing the Office System are, of course, a computer and the Office System. Here s the essential ingredients list the Office System needs in order to run on your computer:

• A personal computer with a Pentium 133 MHz or higher processor (Pentium III is recommended)

• Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 (SP3) or Microsoft Windows XP

• 64 MB of RAM (but 128 MB is recommended), with an additional 8 MB for each application you intend to run simultaneously

• At least 245 MB disk storage space

• CD-ROM drive

• SuperVGA or higher resolution monitor

• Mouse, trackball , touchpad, or other pointing device

• Printer (optional)

• Modem (optional, for Internet- related features)

• Microphone (optional, for speech features)

• Graphics tablet (optional, for handwriting recognition)

Before you install, be sure to make a backup of all your important files, just in case there s a glitch and something goes wrong. That s not likely, but it s always better to be safe than dataless.

Note  

If you will be using the Shared Workspace features (in Microsoft Office Word 2003, Excel, and PowerPoint), creating Meeting Workspaces (in Outlook), or creating data-driven Web sites (in FrontPage), you need to install and run Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. For more information on SharePoint Team Services V2, visit www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/.