The Office 2003 Environment:

The office 2003 environment includes the features that are aimed at making all of the Office programs more user friendly and efficient.
Task Pane:
Upon starting any office 2003 Program, the Task Pane is present along the right side of the window. This eliminates the need for frequent trips to the menu bar by putting commonly used functions all in one area. with the Task Pane, you can easily and efficiently create a new document, open an existing document, add clip art, or apply styles.
Showing/Hiding the Task Pane:
From the view menu, select Task Pane The Task Pane is showing if the menu choice is checked.

Save As Open Dialog Boxes:

The Save As and Open Dialog boxes include a Places Bar containing shortcuts to locations where you are likely to save files. Using the places Bar, you may go directly to a save location rather than navigating through layers of folders. The list within the Places Bar includes the following:

· My recent documents

Displays recently used folders and files in your profile on the C: drive

· Desktop

Selects the Desktop in your profile on the C: drive

· My Documents

· My Computer

My network Places