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Default missing MS Word icon

You can add them to the All Programs part of the Start menu as well.

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"ChineseYeti" wrote in message
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Thanks. They still aren't under the Microsoft Office folder, but putting
them on the Start menu worked fine.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

No idea what become of them, but they're easily recreated. Use Windows
Search to find winword.exe and excel.exe. In the Search Results window,
right-click and choose Create Shortcut. You'll get a message saying you
can't create a shortcut there and asking if you want it on the desktop.

Say
yes. Then drag the shortcut from the desktop to the Start menu.

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"ChineseYeti" wrote in message
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The MS Word and Excel icons are both mysteriously missing from the

Start
Menu, both under the shortcuts and under the Microsoft Office folder

in
"All
Programs." They both function fine if you open an existing document,

but
I
can't start a new document without going through an existing one. Any

ideas
what happened to them and how I get them back.