All of the Office 2007 icons changed from the default to a "blank" icon.
I can launch all applications and if I recreate the icon it is fine, but all 
the icons on the start menu are affected for all users.

It is a Windows 7 machine running Office 2007 Professional.

What could have caused this and how can it be corrected?

Hi there, I'm having the same problem. Every app works, fine, the files 
associations are right, but the icons of the documents (Word, Excel, 
PowerPoint, etc) aren't the one of the associated app.

Has anyone got an answer to this issue?

Using Office 2007 pro on Windows 7 64 bits

"SSi308" wrote:

> All of the Office 2007 icons changed from the default to a "blank" icon.
> I can launch all applications and if I recreate the icon it is fine, but all 
> the icons on the start menu are affected for all users.
> 
> It is a Windows 7 machine running Office 2007 Professional.
> 
> What could have caused this and how can it be corrected?

http://www.ehow.com/how_5684487_add-desktop-icons-windows-7.html

-- 
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



"castineira" <castineira@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:7BCF3BE9-C464-4069-B154-3303DCE31128@microsoft.com...
> Hi there, I'm having the same problem. Every app works, fine, the files
> associations are right, but the icons of the documents (Word, Excel,
> PowerPoint, etc) aren't the one of the associated app.
>
> Has anyone got an answer to this issue?
>
> Using Office 2007 pro on Windows 7 64 bits
>
> "SSi308" wrote:
>
>> All of the Office 2007 icons changed from the default to a "blank" icon.
>> I can launch all applications and if I recreate the icon it is fine, but 
>> all
>> the icons on the start menu are affected for all users.
>>
>> It is a Windows 7 machine running Office 2007 Professional.
>>
>> What could have caused this and how can it be corrected? 

In my case it was caused by an upgrade to an application called ACT! The only 
way I could get the icons back was to restore the computer to the state it 
was in before the upgrade.

Check out this blog:
http://blog.gnu-designs.com/solved-missing-microsoft-office-2007-shortcut-icons

This restored some, but not all of the icons. Also with Windows 7 I did not 
have the luxury of going into Folder Options >File Types so I compared the 
files on this machine to a like machine. 
Since no one was using the workstation at the time, the system restore was 
the  best option to get back all of the Office icons.

Hope this helps, sorry for the late reply.

Lori

"castineira" wrote:

> Hi there, I'm having the same problem. Every app works, fine, the files 
> associations are right, but the icons of the documents (Word, Excel, 
> PowerPoint, etc) aren't the one of the associated app.
> 
> Has anyone got an answer to this issue?
> 
> Using Office 2007 pro on Windows 7 64 bits
> 
> "SSi308" wrote:
> 
> > All of the Office 2007 icons changed from the default to a "blank" icon.
> > I can launch all applications and if I recreate the icon it is fine, but all 
> > the icons on the start menu are affected for all users.
> > 
> > It is a Windows 7 machine running Office 2007 Professional.
> > 
> > What could have caused this and how can it be corrected?