Minimum system requirements for Microsoft Office 2003 Professional
Processor: 233 MHz or higher recommended, Pentium III.
Operating system: Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 or later or Windows XP or later.
RAM: 64 MB (minimum) 128 MB (recommended)
Hard disk space: 450 MB.
Note: The use of disk space varies depending on configuration, custom installation choices may be more or less disk space, the selection of “choice full installation, it will be more hard disk space. The above requirement is specified for the standard configuration.
Additional information about the system requirements for Microsoft Office 2003 Professional, and specific products and services can be found on the Microsoft support site.
The installation process
Insert the CD-ROM in your Office 2003 installation CD. After a few seconds the installation program copies the files on your computer, the installation begins. If the installation does not start automatically, open My Computer, then open the CD OFFICE11, and then double click the SETUPPRO.EXE.
You will enter for the Office 2003 product key.
Enter the product key on the back of the CD. Use only five characters per field, and ensure that a total of 25 characters. When finished, click Next. If you can not find the product key and click on the Help icon on the Windows product key page on the Microsoft help topic to open.
The next screen of the installation of Office 2003 will be prompted to enter your user name, initials, and the organization. Click “Next” once this information is entered correctly.
The next window shows the End-User License Agreement (EULA). Click the checkbox at the bottom correspond to “I accept the terms of the agreement. It is recommended that you go through this time. Then click” Next. ”
The next window shows the installation options for Office 2003. If you just want to offer everything to install Office, click the Select button corresponding “complete” in the context of choice “or an installation option of type ‘. Then click” Continue “at the bottom of the window . Other options include:
Typical installation hints: As the name, this option installs the programs, and most commonly used options from the crowds. Full Install: Installs all programs and all options are offered at your output to disk.
Installation Requirements: This is a rudimentary system is a viable choice if you need more space on the disk.
Custom Installation: Here is where you will find maximum configuration. If you have a good idea of how you have Office and the individual applications, this selection, you can customize the installation, or more precisely to your needs. If you do not do a complete installation, later you can always install a component that you want. Of course you need the Office CD to do this. With high-performance hard drives today, if you have alternative storage possibility, we recommend the optional installation complete, especially if you use the software to work under deadline pressure. Limited or partial installations of Office can be a problem in the most inopportune moments, moments. Can you call what you want to be a common feature in Word, for example, and discover that the function was never installed in the first place. If this happens, the program runs an installation routine that the installation CD in the original CD that was used during the installation, must be submitted.
If you do not have the CD at hand, it is easy enough to cancel the routine and continue to work without the function, but not as you might expect, this is always smoothly. You’ve probably seen
Word or other Office components, crash more than once when the program to install on a requested feature, and tried the original installation CD that was not available.
Once you are ready for this type of facility to do the windows “Start Installation” appears. Click the Install button at the bottom of the window. This will start the process of installing Microsoft Office 2003 on your computer. After starting the installation, a progress bar that indicates that Microsoft Office 2003 is currently installed on your computer. The time to complete the installation depends on the speed of your computer.
The installation program informs you if the setup is complete. You can check updates for Microsoft Office and delete your installation files. Make sure “Check the Web for updates and additional downloads” is enabled, and “Delete installation files” is checked. This is to ensure that when Office later finds a missing file or if a file is corrupted, it can recover from these installation files. Click “Finish”.