Hi ollieart ,
Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup
I'm not familiar with the student version, so I suggest you search for the
winproj.exe file. Right-click the file and make shortcut, which shoulld be
at the bottom of the same folder. Click and drag that on to your desktop.
See
http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my free Project Tutorials
FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address:
http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm
Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on
Mike Glen
MS Project MVP