Perhaps most surprisingly, there’s even a mail-merge feature. ![]() Even if you need to whip up a professional report, the tools you need are here: headers, footers, watermarks and much more. There’s a word count, spelling auto-correction and the formatting tools everyone uses – bold, italics, underline – combined with Text Effects for adding advanced effects such as glows, shadows and reflections. 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.
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