Hi Terry,
many thanks for your message. Unfortunately that didn't work.
for your kind information, here are additional details I posted on a Vista
NG, for I then thought it may not be a "Word" problem :
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For some reason my Word shortcut icon has gone and has been replaced with
the Windows generic icon. I tried to suppress this shortcut and recreate
another one, to no avail. To do this I did Start > Programs > Microsot
Office > MS Word 2007 >> Right click > Send to > Desktop (Create a
shortcut).
Doing this I create a shortcut with the generic icon, not the original,
default Word 2007 icon.
I also tried to right click on this shortcut > Properties but the "change
icon" button is greyed.
Interestingly, If I create an icon from the Winword file in Program files, I
do get a proper icon, with the label "shortcut to ...".
In other words, it seems that the problem only affects, as far as I know,
the Word shortcut icon created from the Start > Programs menu.
The icon in the quick launch bar is OK. The icons associated with the word
documents in Explorer are OK.
If I copy the icon in the quick launch bar onto the desktop, the default
Word icon is replaced with the generic one.
and of course I cannot correlate this new problem with anything I could have
done, except, may be, rearranging all my icons on the desktop after they had
been "reshuffled" for some reason (this happens now and again).
How can I recuperate the original MS Word icon?
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So, I created a new shortcut directly from the Winword file in Program
files, which is OK. However I would have liked to know how to repair the
above mentioned problem, just in case it happens again, and also because I
like to learn from experience...
With best regards,
Daniel