Office Icons are all missing/replaced by generic white icons

Anonymous
2010-08-03T08:01:12+00:00

For some reason all my office products (word, excel, outlook, access etc.) icons in the start menu and desktop task bar have all been replaced by the generic white icons.

I am unable to uninstall or repair this. I believe (from what I've read on the internet) that it is connected to the "C:\windows\installer" folder and the Office installer files.

Can this problem be solved without having to re-install windows ( as that is the only way I think its possible to be albe to reset the office suite).

Cheers,

Jurgens

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Anonymous
2011-09-24T16:39:18+00:00

I had the same issue as everyone here and I think I've FINALLY figured out a solution!

Go to c:/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office 14

Right click on each program icon individually and unpin from BOTH your Taskbar and/or Start Menu. (e.g. EXCEL.EXE, MSACCESS.EXE, MSPUB.EXE, OUTLOOK.EXE, POWERPNT.EXE, WINWORD.EXE, etc.)

Then right click and select  "Pin to Start Menu" (not to Taskbar).

Do this for each program you want to eventually make it onto your Taskbar.

Now go to Start and then for each program (that should now show in start menu with the actual Microsoft Office icon), right click and select "Pin to Taskbar".

You can then Remove each one from the Start Menu if you wish by right clicking again and selecting "Remove from this List".

Your icons should now be back to their original format.

I've rebooted my system several times so far and the icons have remained.

Hopefully this will work for everyone else as well!

Good Luck!!!

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-04-03T06:13:08+00:00

    I followed the steps but had to do a slight work-around wherein I unpinned the icons and then deleted them from the start menu, then created new shortcuts from the applications and Voila it worked! (Windows 7 Premium user)

    Thank you so much for sharing the answer to a question that quite frankly has been driving me more than a bit batty for the past several months. 

    PA

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-01-18T23:01:39+00:00

    The "fix" (in my case) is far worse than the problem

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-11-07T11:54:09+00:00

    If you right click any program icon on the Windows taskbar, you will get a menu option that offers unpin from the taskbar.

    If you right click a program icon in the Windows Start Menu you will see a menu option 'More' select that and there is another sub menu with Pin to taskbar. This isn't rocket science.

    Hi This works for Word but under Office I have no Excel item, only for Word. Any ideas

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-11-07T11:52:14+00:00

    I had the same issue as everyone here and I think I've FINALLY figured out a solution!

    Go to c:/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office 14

    Right click on each program icon individually and unpin from BOTH your Taskbar and/or Start Menu. (e.g. EXCEL.EXE, MSACCESS.EXE, MSPUB.EXE, OUTLOOK.EXE, POWERPNT.EXE, WINWORD.EXE, etc.)

    Then right click and select  "Pin to Start Menu" (not to Taskbar).

    Do this for each program you want to eventually make it onto your Taskbar.

    Now go to Start and then for each program (that should now show in start menu with the actual Microsoft Office icon), right click and select "Pin to Taskbar".

    You can then Remove each one from the Start Menu if you wish by right clicking again and selecting "Remove from this List".

    Your icons should now be back to their original format.

    I've rebooted my system several times so far and the icons have remained.

    Hopefully this will work for everyone else as well!

    Good Luck!!!

    Hi, I tried this but when I right click the icon there is no option to pin or unpin from either taskbar or start. I finally managed to create a shortcut on the desktop but I cannot move them to either start or taskbar. Any ideas?

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