Installation of each user takesabout 12 Mb. StarOffice makes extensive use of the X server capacities, therefore is important to have all font sources installed, otherwise if some fonts are not found they will be substituted by default for other fonts of different size and generally worse appearance. The office suite itself brings a number of fonts for your X server. The executable file that launches the suite is soffice . If your computer has less than 32 Mb or if you have many programs running, be patient, it can take a while to get started.
All dialogue windows have a Help button.
Version 4.0 does not carry the help files, therefore this help buttons are not really functional. Each program has its corresponding tutorial in this version. They are not very exhaustive, perhaps the development team did not have enough time to write more complete tutorials. On the other hand, the information provided is really good. They are the kind of manuals you can read while working on your documents.