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Help and support for Microsoft Word 2003. Links to customer service and technical solutions, downloads, updates, and answers to top issues.

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Description of the January 2010 update for Office Word

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how-to articles - Performance

how-to articles - Performance

How to design and set up a mail merge address list in Word
Describes acceptable formats for a mail merge address list. This article also includes suggestions and questions that are helpful for you when you create an address list in Word
How to copy text and graphics from Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files
Describes how to copy text and graphics from Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. You cannot convert documents directly from Adobe PDF format to a Word document file. This article contains a link to the Adobe Support site.
WD: How to Convert Between Mass-11 Word Processor and Word
Microsoft Word products do not directly support conversion to or from the MASS-11 file format.

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Download details - Performance

Download details - Performance

Considerations for server-side Automation of Office
Developers can use Automation in Microsoft Office to build custom solutions that use the capabilities and the features that are built into the Office product. Although such programmatic development can be implemented on a client system with relative...
Description of the update for Office Word 2003: January 2010
Describes an Office Word 2003 update that contains stability and performance improvements.
Description of the Office 2003 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package for Microsoft Office Document Scanning (Mdivwctl.msp): October 28, 2008
Describes the issue that is fixed in the Office 2003 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package for Microsoft Office Document Scanning that is dated October 28, 2008.

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Troubleshooting - Performance

Troubleshooting - Performance

Your computer responds slowly when you work with XML documents in Word 2003
Discusses a performance problem where your computer responds slowly when you work with XML documents in Word 2003. This problem may be caused by running the Check grammar option. To work around this problem, you can turn the Check grammar option off.
Description of the Microsoft Office Word 2003 hotfix package (Winword.msp): August 26, 2008
Discusses the issue that is fixed in the Word 2003 hotfix package that is dated August 26, 2008.
Word 2003 or PowerPoint 2003 files that have certain WMF and EMF metafiles open slowly
Discusses a problem where Word 2003 or PowerPoint 2003 files that contain certain WMF and EMF metafiles may open extremely slowly. Explains the types of metafiles that can cause this problem.

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Last Review : February 14, 2013