Does MS offer an XBRL Office 2003 Proffesional add in?

[John Z.]

Some months ago I was purusing the Office 2003 updates and saw something
about an XBRL add in. I recently searched for this download, but have been
unable to locate it. Is anyone familiar with

 

[XBRL Guru]

The XBRL Add-in to Office 2003 from Microsoft is no longer available;
it was a protoype (per http://www.microsoft.com/msft/xbrlinfo.mspx).
Microsoft provides their own financial statements in XBRL format, both
on their web site and with the SEC.

According to their web site,
http://www.microsoft.com/office/showcase/xbrl/partnersol.mspx, you can
find solution providers with XBRL add-ins to Excel and Word, such as
Rivet Software's Dragon Tag, with a 30 day trial download from
www.rivetsoftware.com. A number of other Office 2003 add-ins are
available for different purposes, such as Edgar Online's I*Metrix
(http://i-metrix.edgar-online.com/) and Hitachi's Xinba
(www.hitachi.us/xbrl).

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[mlellis]

I wish I had thought to look here first before I e-mailed
(e-mail address removed) FOUR TIMES - that's right - FOUR TIMES - in a one-week
period trying to find the XBRL Reporting Tool for Excel 2003. I would hope
that the previous sentence reaches someone at Microsoft; for a company that
says customer service is important, you'll probably have a hard time
convincing me. One e-mail should have been sufficient.

I'm an auditor and a CPA, and although my employer doesn't use XBRL, I
believe it's going to come down the pike, so to speak, for us one day and I
want to make sure that, when it does, I'm ready for it. I want to find a
free solution - not a 30-day trial. If anyone knows where a FREE XBRL add-in
for Microsoft Excel 2003 is, please let me know through this newsgroup.