Naturally, all the basics are covered, too. 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.
