Office Starter

Microsoft offers buyers of complete PCs or laptops have long been a small Starter Edition's own Office 2010 package. This is primarily limited by that lack all parts of the program other than Word and Excel. But at least these two important parts are functionally limited office.

May be created with no starter Office of contents, citations, footnotes or bibliography, the created documents can not be provided with a password protection, and the Ribbon and the toolbar can not be customized.
Also, advanced data analysis (such as with pivot tables) or setting up of macro functions are not compatible with the Office Starter Edition.

Additionally, appears in a starter's own bar on the right edge of advertising, however, quite subtle. How disturbing this is perceived, should also depend on how big is the monitor.

Now Microsoft Office Starter 2010 has also made ​​available for download, so everyone does not have Microsoft Office installed, at least this ad-supported basic Edition.

Besides the two top programs Word and Excel while also a folder with Office 2010 Tools is installed. Inside is a clip organizer, a small picture viewer and a starter-To-Go Device Manager, which can also install the Starter Edition on a USB stick to take away. In addition, of course, an upload center, on the Starter Edition can convert into a paid full version.

Conclusion: who is familiar with Microsoft Office and home or on the second computer would like to have the same program, consult with the Starter Edition well, if the limitations pose no problem. But there are more functions in OpenOffice or LibreOffice also free.