Say you want to make Word half-width so you can look at a web browser at the same time the 208-pixel-wide pane suddenly becomes very intrusive. The other big problem comes if space is limited. While it’s insisted the space will never be used by more dubious advertisers, pushing anatomy-enhancing pills for example, there’s still a very real possibility you could be distracted from the document you’re working on by a random, attention-grabbing advert. Over time, these frequent updates could become very annoying, and especially so if Microsoft chooses to sell the advertising to third parties. As we’ve been typing this short paragraph, it’s switched images three times. At launch Microsoft will be pushing upgrades to the full version of Office, with an image that rotates at frequent intervals. In reality, though, that panel is a sales and advertising tool.
It has some use: newcomers might find it handy to have the Getting Started Guide and Help links on permanent view, and it also encourages you to download extra templates and, in Word, clip-art. There is a catch to Office Starter, however, and that is a panel down the right-hand side, which measures precisely 208 pixels wide and can’t be resized or removed.
When the device is removed from a PC, Office Starter is also removed.
You then just plug the drive into a PC and follow the prompts. Press this and, providing you’ve inserted a suitably large USB flash drive into a port (it requires around 400MB of space), all the vital files will be transferred to the drive.
Head to File | Help in either Word Starter or Excel Starter and you’ll see an option that says “Take Office With You”. Rather surprisingly, you can even take Office Starter with you on your travels – why Microsoft has opted to offer this feature with its most basic edition but not with the full version is beyond us. We’ll go into more details on what is and isn’t included later in the review. There are no niggling restrictions to printing, saving or sending: this is a fully fledged word processor.
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