What are the advantages and disadvantages of microsoft2003 and microsoft2007

Hi, the Microsoft 2007 has more features than the Microsoft Office 2003. Moreover you can save the the Document compatible with Microsoft 2003 from the Microsoft Office 2007 but you can't do the same with Microsoft Office 2003. For example Microsoft Office 2003 saves the Word Document as word.doc which is .doc extension but the Microsoft 2007 saves the word document as word.docx which is .docx extension. Both the formats can be opened with Microsoft Office 2007 but not with Microsoft 2003. The best feature of the Microsoft 2007 is it can edit picture properties like Brightness colour, grayscale...etc witihin any document of Microsoft Office 2007. A new version Microsoft Office 2010 has been released but the Microsoft 2007 is the best to use for more features and user friendly.

Finally I suggest you to use Microsoft Office 2007 or Microsoft Office 2010.

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Office 2007 is different to Office 2003 in 3 main ways:
The introduction of a "ribbon"
The removal of toolbars & menu's
The introduction of XML file format



The ribbon, removal of toolbars & menus
The ribbon takes the form of a barat the top of the screen. It replaces the normal drop-down menu's and toolbars and instead categorises tool buttons into "tabs". It can take some getting used to, though the interface design is said by Microsoft to make usage easier.
A guide for the changes can be seen at the microsoft site (see related links)
XML file format
This means two things, the default format to save work has an X at the end of it (i.e. docx) and this file format cannot be read by 2003 (without downloading a 2007 viewer). So its often a good idea save as a 2003 document, just to ensure usability on other computers.
Other Features
Office 2007 also comes complete with many new templates, giving the user much more selection and the ability to make their work look much more professional than similar templates within Office 2003.

If you are looking to decide wether you should upgrade or not it depends on what you are using it for. The 2007 and 2010 versions of the software is very nice but is more geared at cloud computing and colaboration. It does a good job at utilizing the storage space that microsoft gives you with a hotmail account. Doing your normal spreadsheets and word documents there isn't much of a difference other than layout and look. Not worth the money in my opinion but I have purchased the software with a school discount and I am pleased with it because I do utilize the online storage. I can get to my files anywhere I can find a computer with an internet computer. You can even use the office software online in your web browser on computers that don't even have the program on it. Kinda of nice sometimes.