Check your "start menu", too. (click on start)
Also, it may be found by clicking on 'start', then 'all programs', and searching for MS Office (or some other similar name). The MS Office Shortcut tool should be there.
You can also drag & drop any application from the start menu to your desktop. Hover the mouse pointer over the program, press and hold the left mouse button, then drag it over to the desktop and release the left mouse button ... VOILA!!
Click on Start (Lower left hand corner blue globe)
Then click on Programs,
scroll down until you find Microsoft Office or Microsoft Word. You can also use the Run command to run the executable file for the application you need. In Microsoft Word's case, it is Winword.exe that will run the program. You just need to find it in the Office folders.
Start menu -> "All Programs" - > "Microsoft Office" folder -> "Microsoft Word"
Click on the Windows icon bottom left on the task bar and scroll to the app you wish to open. You can also drag that app to the desktop to create a shortcut.
in my opinion the icons are stored on the desktop
Desktop
Do a search for "WINWORD.exe". Should be somewhere in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\ Once you've found it, <right-click> go to [send to] and select the "Desktop (create shortcut)" option. This should create a shortcut on your desktop.
Desktop icons.
Right Click Your Desktop Select View Untick Show Desktop Icons
your screen refreshes when you close a program causing your desktop icons to flicker
In the Windows operating system, desktop icons are shortcuts to programs that you can execute. To find out the program associated with an icon, right click on the icon and select Properties in the menu. In the dialog that pops up check the Location field.
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Don't know if you are talking about any specific application but to view desktop icons, right click on desktop go to 'view' and select/check (if unchecked) 'show desktop icons'.
To Eliminate desktop Clutter. Windows XP periodically moves unused desktop icons into a folder named Unused Desktop Shortcuts.
A desktop icon is a symbol with text under it that is displayed on the desktop. The desktop is what is displayed when you log in on most operating systems. Common desktop icons are "My Computer" "Recycle Bin" "My documents" shortcuts to programs that are installed. By double clicking on an icon you can open the folder or program related to it. Desktop icons are the most commonly recognized icons by most people. They are used to convey purpose of an available function on a computer. On a very graphic oriented Windows environment such as Windows XP the common desktop icons you might see are "My Computer", "Recycle Bin", and various file folders with labels. Other operating systems such as Macintosh, and Linux desktop environments like KDE also use desktop icons in much the same way but the extension, resource or file name suffix differ. Generally icons from one operating system would need to be converted to work on a different OS.
Desktop icons are created just by using the operating system itself or with the help of parallels. Parallels creates desktop icons for windows operating system on computers that don't normally run windows including macs. Other softwares include crossover and image-editing softwares.