Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003 is a suite of popular Microsoft Office personal productivity applications that is priced affordably for students and teachers in grades K - 12 and institutions of higher education. Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003 includes these core Office programs: Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Office Excel 2003, Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003.

New features include the Reading Pane and the Research Task Pane. The Reading Pane in Outlook 2003 devotes more space on the screen to make e-mail messages easier to read. The Research Task Pane helps you to find information and add it to documents quickly and easily, and it gives you instant access to electronic dictionaries, reference materials, and online research sites. Office 2003 offers more secure, manageable e-mail with improved junk e-mail filters for enhanced protection. Complete backwards compatibility means that Office 2003 documents can be read and edited by users of Microsoft Office 97, 2000, or XP. Improved document recovery automatically saves and restores your Office documents in the event of a system crash or error.