Microsoft Office 2003 ReadMe File: General Information

Microsoft Office 2003 ReadMe File: General Information

© 2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

This document provides late-breaking information about the Microsoft® Office 2003. The Contents section lists all of the information contained in this file; for late breaking information specific to an individual Office system product, see the Readme file for that product.

ProductFilename
Word 2003WDREADME.HTM
Excel 2003XLREADME.HTM
Outlook 2003OLREADME.HTM
PowerPoint 2003PPREADME.HTM
PowerPoint Viewer 2003PVREADME.HTM
Access 2003ACREADME.HTM
FrontPage 2003FPREADME.HTM
InfoPath 2003INREADME.HTM
OneNote 2003ONREADME.HTM
Publisher 2003PBREADME.HTM

How to use this document

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Readme file locations

Before installation, the Readme files are located on CD1 in FILES\PFILES\MSOFFICE\OFFICE11\LCID, where LCID is the number for the language of your product. After installation, these files are located on your hard disk in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\LCID, where LCID is the number for the language of your product.

LanguageLCID
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)1025
Bulgarian1026
Chinese (Hong Kong SAR)3076
Chinese (PRC)2052
Chinese (Taiwan)1028
Croatian1050
Czech1029
Danish1030
Dutch (Netherlands)1043
English (United States)1033
Estonian1061
Finnish1035
French (France)1036
German (Germany)1031
Greek1032
Hebrew1037
Hindi1081
Hungarian1038
Italian (Italy)1040
Japanese1041
Korean1042
Latvian1062
Lithuanian1063
Norwegian (Bokmal)1044
Polish1045
Portuguese (Brazil)1046
Portuguese (Portugal)2070
Romanian1048
Russian1049
Serbian (Latin)2074
Slovak1051
Slovenian1060
Spanish (Modern Sort)3082
Swedish1053
Thai1054
Turkish1055
Ukrainian1058

System requirements

All Microsoft Office editions in the 2003 release have approximately the same minimum system requirements.

ProcessorPentium 233 Mhz or higher processor; Pentium III recommended
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 or later, or Windows XP or later (recommended)
Memory64 MB RAM (minimum);128 MB RAM (recommended)
Disk space245 MB, including 115 MB of available space on the hard disk that contains the operating system. Hard-disk space usage varies depending up the configuration. A local installation source requires approximately 2 GB of hard-disk space during the installation; the local installation source that remains on users' computers requires as much as 240 MB of hard-disk space beyond that required for Office.
MonitorSuper VGA (800 x 600) or higher resolution with 256 colors
Disk driveCD-ROM drive
Pointing deviceMicrosoft Mouse, Microsoft IntelliMouse®, or compatible pointing device

Note  None of the Microsoft Office editions in the 2003 release runs on the Microsoft Windows Me, Windows 98, or Windows NT operating systems. If any client computers are currently running one of these operating systems, you must upgrade the operating system before installing Microsoft Office.


Certain programs in the Microsoft Office System require additional items or services: