Thanks to Microsoft for making Office 2003 PIA redistributale. Initially we were told not to bother about PIAs and deployment issues for Office 2003…. Office 2003 was supposed to handle it not the programmer himself. But now this comes as a great option of having PIAs under your hood.

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Download details: Office 2003 Update: Redistributable Primary Interop Assemblies: “The Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies (PIA) redistributable is a Microsoft Windows Installer package that contains the Primary Interop Assemblies for Office 2003 products. Specifically, the redistributable contains the PIAs for the following products:

Microsoft Office Access 2003

Microsoft Office Excel 2003

Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003

Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003

Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003

Microsoft Office Project 2003

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003

Microsoft Office Visio 2003

Microsoft Office Word 2003 ”