Microsoft word icons missing

Here you will see a number of files open with their brief description and programs configured which you can open. Now locate your file, for example, Word document with the. Select the file and click the Change Program on the upper right corner. Clicking will lead you to Open With options.

Select Microsoft Word. Click the Help option leading you to Detect and Repair in the drop-down menu. That will restore your Office icons smoothly and quickly.

If the previous two options do not work for fixing your missing shortcut icons , you can also delete the file cache with the icons.

The blank generic icons do not appear to be causing any kind of problems. If I click on one the file opens immediately in Word and Word works perfectly. Here is an example of what the icon looks like next to a couple of normal icons on the desktop.

Installed Office - everything fine 3. Installed Office still all good 4. Uninstalled Word and Excel - no problems 5. After some weeks Office turned into Office and Word docs became generic plain icons but still opened with Word 6. Tried every solution I could find in the internet including tweaking the registry 7. Removed Office using Programs and Features 8.

Everything was fixed- Office back and Word icons back 9. An Office online repair got the Start Menu icons and the Excel files ones back but not the Word doc icons Reinstalled and no Word Doc icons as well as no more OneNote program even though one note files on desktop did have OneNote icons Downloaded OneNote from Microsoft Store But they do open in Word This thread is locked.

You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 4. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Hi Tomcauley, hope you're doing well. I'm sorry to hear about this issue. Usually online repair will fix this issue. Lets try to change your registry in this case.

Close Registry Editor window. Reboot your computer. This is a user-to-user support forum and I am a fellow user. I hope this helps, but please let me know if you need anything else. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to rianvillareal's post on October 24, Hi rianvillareal Thanks so much for your help but I'm afraid it didn't work.

Maybe I should add that to the line and see if that helps without getting myself in too much trouble messing with the registry Update: OK I tried my x86 idea and it didn't work. Ask the experts Connect with experts, discuss the latest news, updates, and best practices, and read our blog. Suggest a new feature We love reading your suggestions and feedback! Share your thoughts. We're listening. Need more help? Join the discussion.

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