Microsoft Office Word 2003, the latest version of the best-selling word processor, takes customer experience and feedback to deliver innovations you can use to create impressive-looking documents and help you work better together. Communicate and Share Information Better Communicate quickly and effectively with others - internally and across organizations. Work together better. Save Word 2003 documents to shared workspaces where other team members can get the latest version, check the documents in or out, or even save task lists, related documents, links, and member lists. Shared workspaces require Microsoft Windows Server&#8482; 2003 running Microsoft Windows® SharePoint&#8482; Services. Control distribution of sensitive documents. Help protect your company assets by preventing recipients from forwarding, copying, or printing important documents by using information rights management (IRM) functionality. You can even specify an expiration date for the message, after which it cannot be viewed or changed. IRM functionality requires Windows Server 2003 running Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS). Note With Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003, you can use Word to create IRM-protected documents and grant other users permission to access and modify your documents. You can also apply policy templates to IRM-protected documents you create. With Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003, you can read IRM-protected documents; with permission, you can modify them as well. Collaborate with confidence. Designate certain sections of your document to be modified by specific people to better protect how your document is modified and reduce the number of conflicting comments you receive. You can even prevent reviewers from making changes unless they turn revision marks on, or you can make the entire document read-only with key portions that can be modified only by specific individuals. You can also help protect the formatting and style of your document. See comments and revisions more easily. Markup features in Word 2003 have been enhanced to make comments more visible and offer better ways to help you track and merge changes and read comments. Communicate instantly with others. No need to leave Word to find out if an instant messaging (IM) contact is online-you can access IM and even initiate IM conversations in Word 2003. Go mobile. If you own and use a Tablet PC, you can annotate Word documents using a pen input device-in your own handwriting. You can annotate documents for personal use, such as taking notes, or to send to others.<p>Computer/Processor A computer with a 133 megahertz (MHz) or higher processor; Pentium III recommended Memory 64 MB of RAM (128 MB recommended) for the operating system, plus an additional 8 MB of RAM for each program running simultaneously Hard Disk 245 MB of available hard-disk space with 115 MB on the hard disk where the operating system is installed (hard-disk usage varies depending on configuration; custom installation choices may require more or less hard-disk space) Drive CD-ROM drive Display Super VGA (800 × 600) or a higher-resolution monitor with 256 colors Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 (SP3), Microsoft Windows XP, or a later operating system Peripherals Microsoft mouse, Microsoft IntelliMouse®, or a compatible pointing device