Microsoft Office 2000

Microsoft Office 2000

Developer(s)	Microsoft
Initial release	June 7, 1999; 12 years ago (1999-06-07) [1]
Stable release	2000 Service Pack 3 (9.0 [2]) / October 21, 2002; 9 years ago (2002-10-21) [3]
Operating system	Windows 95 to Windows Server 2003
Platform	Microsoft Windows
Type	Office suite
License	Proprietary EULA
Website	Microsoft Office Online Home Page

Microsoft Office 2000 is a release of Microsoft Office that succeeded Microsoft Office 97 and was designed as a fully 32-bit and Y2K compliant version to match Windows 2000 features. All the Office 2000 applications have OLE 2 capacity, which allows moving data automatically between various programs. Microsoft Office XP is a successor of Office 2000. The most comprehensive Office 2000 suite is Office 2000 Developer. Office 2000 RTM is the last Microsoft Office edition which does not include Product Activation, although SR-1 updated editions of Office 2000 had product activation in copies sold in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the United States except their volume license editions. They required the user to activate the product via the Internet.

Mainstream support for Office 2000 ended on June 30, 2004^[4], and extended support ended on July 14, 2009^[4].

Editions

Office 2000 was available in five suites^[5]:

Office programs	Description	Standard suite	Small Business suite	Professional suite	Premium suite	Developer suite
Word 2000	word processor	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Excel 2000	spreadsheet program	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Outlook 2000	personal information manager	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
PowerPoint 2000	presentation program	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Publisher 2000	desktop publishing program	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Small Business Tools	tools for small businesses	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Access 2000	relational database	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
FrontPage 2000	HTML editor	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
PhotoDraw 2000	vector graphics and raster graphics	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Developer Tools and SDK [6]		No	No	No	No	Yes
Visio 2000	Business diagramming	No	No	No	No	No
Project 2000	Project management	No	No	No	No	No

The application version descriptors were changed from Microsoft's previous version numbering scheme to highlight their Y2K compliance. The previous applications had numbers 97/98; 2000 was chosen for all the new versions. Word 97, Excel 97, PowerPoint 97, Outlook 98, Access 97, Publisher 98, FrontPage 98 and Project 98 were the predecessors to Office 2000's applications. PhotoDraw's predecessor was Picture It!.

Microsoft Office 2000 Personal was a SKU solely designed for the Japanese market, including Word 2000, Excel 2000 and Outlook 2000.[5] This compilation would later become widespread as Microsoft Office 2003 Basic.

Service releases

Office 2000 was the first version of Office to use Windows Installer technology. This allowed service packs to be slipstreamed into the original release version. The first update was called Service Release 1 (SR-1). Subsequent updates were called service packs. SP3 was the last service pack.

Easter eggs in Office 2000

Microsoft Excel contained a hidden game called Dev Hunter, Microsoft Access had a hidden 8 ball toy, and Microsoft Word had team development credits.

Tips

In Word PowerPoint or Excel, you can change a button image (the picture on a button such as the bold button) by opening one of the programs clicking on the tools menu and then by clicking customize. right click the button you want to edit and select "edit button image". when you are done editing the image you can revery back to the buttons original look by doing every thing the same but instead of selecting "edit button image" select "reset".

Contemporary components

• Microsoft MapPoint 2000
• Microsoft Project 2000
• Microsoft Visio 2000
• Microsoft Vizact 2000

References

1. ^ Office 2000 original release date
2. ^ [1] Office 2000 version number
3. ^ [2] Service Pack 3 latest release date
4. ^ ^{a b} Office Family Product Support Lifecycle FAQ
5. ^ [3] Office 2000 Suite Contents and Pricing @ archive.org
6. ^ [4] Microsoft Office 2000 Developer tools list

External links

• Office 2000 Solution Center
• Downloads for Office 2000 - Downloads - Microsoft Office Online
• Microsoft Office Programs (original Microsoft site archived by Internet Archive)
• Office 2000 Suites (original Microsoft site archived by Internet Archive)