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Old 09-18-2012, 11:35 AM
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I hope I am posting this in the correct area, if not I am sorry. Do not know if this is an Office or Window question. I know you said don't post Word questions here, but this is not excatly a Word question.



I just upgraded from Microsoft Office 2007 to 2010. Everything works correctly but the W icon for Word is missing and I can not seem to find the way to fix it. I have searched my C: drive trying to find where Office is even located and I can not find any .exe files for any of Office. When I go into properties the change icon is grayed out. Any suggestions on how I might get the correct icon for my Word program. The Excel, and Powerpoint icons are there, only Word is missing.

Any suggestions would be appriciated.

I have a Toshiba 64bit, Window 7, 8mg of ram, and Office 2010.
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Go to Start>All Programs>Microsoft Office, find the Word 2010 entry, right-click on it and choose Send To> Desktop (create shortcut)
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I did create a shortcut for Word, the short cut and the program under "All Programs" Microsoft Office are missing the icon for Word. That is why I have been looking for the actually .exe file to see if the icon is on it.
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Are you saying you have an entry for Word, and can run it, but it has the wrong icon (or no icon)?
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Yes!! That is my problem. The icon for Word program looks like a blank document icon not the W that is the normal icon for Word. When I go into properties the change icon is grayed out so I can not even change the icon. Any suggestions would be appriciated. But Word loads and runs correctly. So yes I am just being pickly about how my desktop looks.
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You would need to be logged on as Administrator to change the icon.

FWIW, the Word 2010 WinWord.exe file is usually located in:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office
or:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14

On a 64-bit Office installation (which Microsoft generally recommends not using), 'C:\Program Files' might be named 'C:\Program Files(x64)'
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Thank you, thank you, for your help!! That fixed my problem. The people here are so much nicer than the people at the Apple iphone fourm.
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