Will Office 2003 work Win8 pro

Professor with lots of educational content for powerpoint in Office 2003 is shocked by Microsoft report that Office 2003 will not work with Windows 8 pro.
I upgraded from Win 7 Home, clean install. I don't use tiles. I use classic desktop in Win 8 plus third party program called CLASSIC SHELL to get a start button in Windows 8. Classic shell works fine so far, and saved me from returning Windows 8 upgrade to Staples. Absence of a start button would have been a deal breaker. However, not having office 2003 is also a deal breaker. I wanted to know if anyone has tried Office 2003 with a classic startup screen and button on a Windows 8 pro OS? I don't want to crash the system. Took me several tries to get the system this far.

Use the Enterprise evaluation with Classic Shell. No problems here (so far) with Office 2003 Pro install or use. As I'm running the eval in a virtual machine I haven't opened any existing Office files but new files create and work fine.