Files icon not correct

All files created by different applications, Word, Excel or Adobe, will not reflect the icon of that application in colour but just a B&W file, how to adjust this ?
Thanks

The situation with .doc files is a bit complex, it all depends on where they came from, and which version of Word created them, and when. Indeed, whether they were created with MS Word or something else. Thus, I have Word documents going back to Word '97, I also have .doc files that were created with TextEdit, Abiword and NeoOffice. Additionally, since I hate having Word launch (I now use Word 2004 when I positively have to open something with Word), because it takes so long and uses so dang much screen real estate, I have assigned files with the .doc to open with TextEdit. The result is that my .doc files can show any one of about 3 or 4 different document icons. Something that was created with MS Office Word 2004, and has Word assigned to open it, will show a small page with a blue border along the top with a "W" at the edge and a light blue "a" filling the rest of the icon. Older Word documents have a grey page icon with the old Word logo on top of it. More generic Word .docs that are set to open with TextEdit have a plain white page with the upper corner turned down.
The situation is similar with PDFs, which might be created by Adobe Acrobat or by the Mac OS and can be assigned to either Acrobat or Preview. Which icon the file displays will depend on whether the creator information is stored in the resource fork of the file and which application is assigned to open the file. Since I don't have Acrobat, all my PDFs display the Preview icon in the center with "PDF" at the bottom.
If you have changed what file is opened by which application, or the Mac doesn't remember which application is supposed to be used, then doing what macjack suggests and restarting might change the icon situation. But I wouldn't count on it, and you'll start getting the warning about "you are opening the application for the first time" when you double-click some file to launch its application, until you have finally run every application you have at least once.
Finally, the default icon for files created by an application are determined by the application itself. For some applications it is possible to change this fairly easily, if you have some knowledge of icns files. Word 2004 is NOT one of those applications.
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