Hi,

I have installed OpenOffice via its GUI wizard, but I have NO FUNCTIONALITY because I don't know how to open the app.
This is the point I'm at:

I've run: locate OpenOffice (pipe) grep bin (no pipe key on this keyboard)
The resulting OO files are:

spadmin.bin
jvmsetup.bin
setup.bin
pluginapp.bin
crash_report.bin
pkgchk.bin
soffice.bin

Running soffice, for example, just gives me the same GUI I've already completed. Which above is the executable? Why do I need it if it's already installed?

Where do I go from here? Please be specific.

(After installation, why doesn't the app's icon appear on my desktop or in my program menu as in Windoze? After many hours and posts I still have nothing)

"After installation, why doesn't the app's icon appear on my desktop or in my program menu as in Windoze?"

As a general rule installing a Linux application does not create a desktop icon or menu entry. You have to do that by hand. To set up a desktop icon in KDE or Gnome right click on an empty area of the disktop.

"Which above is the executable?"

My Open Office executable is called openoffice.

I'm at work now, but when I get home I'll check. In the meantime, things to try would be:
ooffice
oowrite
oocalc
If you installed from source, look in the source directory for README or INSTALL, otherwise try:
locate openoffice |grep doc
locate openoffice |grep README
man openoffice
To try and find out more
Guy