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Publisher 2003 review

Verdict

While significant upgrades are limited to Outlook and FrontPage, new additions such as OneNote and InfoPath make this an impressive, if expensive, office package. However, very little is on offer to the single user, as the most important advances are only available to corporates.

Review Date: 20 Oct 2003

Price when reviewed: Professional Edition (£402 inc VAT); Student/Teacher Edition, £96 (£113 inc VAT); Standard Edition, £302 (£354 inc VAT); Small Business Edition, £331 (£389 inc VAT)

Overall Rating

Publisher can produce surprisingly impressive web results in short order, but you soon hit a ceiling. In particular, the program's publication-based approach is only suited to sites with a dozen or so pages and, crucially, there's no direct control over the HTML that makes up your pages - you have to accept what you're given. It's typical of Publisher as a whole. With its off-the-shelf approach, you can produce impressive in-house results quickly, but when it comes to professional print and web design you're better off looking elsewhere.

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