Microsoft Office 2010 Starter Edition

The Microsoft company provided in November, 2011 to users chance to receive the basic minimum set of applications from the Office 2010 series absolutely free of charge in the form of locally installed product Office 2010 Starter Edition. Except the price this solution has one major advantage – original and full compatibility with file formats of Microsoft Office 2010.

If you need the free office suite, you can stop the choice on the open solutions offering full-fledged tools for work with text documents, spreadsheets, the presentations, desktop DBMS and other plus compatibility with the MS Office formats. Now there is also other option – to set just provided release of Microsoft Office 2010 Starter. This product can be used without license key, it includes only Word and Excel, plus it can be used in a figurative form, having installed on the replaceable drive like the USB USB stick or the portable hard drive.

On the tape Office 2010 Starter interface you can see much less tabs, than usually. For example, in the Word text editor there are no Links, Reviewing and Type tabs. In the remained tabs available it is less than the parameters – in the Insert menu in the Word interface there are no SmartArt buttons, Tab, Cross-reference, "Eksperss-bloki" and Equations. Besides, when using programs also other restrictions will be detected: in the editor of Word automatic drawing up the table of contents is not supported, and in spreadsheets of Excel pivot tables, password protection and access to external data sources are not supported.

Using Office Starter 2010 the user can easily create and edit simple Word documents and the tables Excel at full compatibility with commercial Office options. It is also possible to open practically any documents created in other versions of Office (Word and Excel). What cannot be made using Office Starter 2010, so it to create PowerPoint presentations, to work with e-mail in Outlook packet, to systematize notes and other resources in Microsoft OneNote, to add comments and to monitor corrections, to analyze data in pivot tables, to use graphics of SmartArt and macroes, to configure a shortcut bar and to be connected to external data sources in Excel and also to create more difficult reporting documents with the table of contents, footnotes and the list of references.