What's New in Office 2003 for Developers?

Just because the Office 2003 Visual Basic Editor and the VBA language remain, for the most part, unchanged from their Office XP counterparts, this doesn't mean that there will be no Office 2003 developer innovation. Far from it! Office 2003 provides lots of improvements over Office XP solution development, including:

*Expanded XML support in Word 2003 and Excel 2003, including object model programmability and the use of customer-defined XML schemas.
*A new Office 2003 solutions model called smart documents.
*"Visual Studio Tools for Office."
*Significant smart tag enhancements.
*List technology.
*Office 2003 object model additions.
*A new business-form oriented product code-named Microsoft "XDocs," which includes a programmable object model.