Deleting Office Word Icon

I have two Office "Word" icons on my Lauchpad desktop, I can't delete one of them.....any suggestions.

The icon has been there for a while, just got so annoyed with it decided to ask for help, tried putting it in trash just keeps jumping back, will not delete when you hold cursor over icon and statrts to wobble no "X" to delete it.

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Ron
Just adding to what CSound has said.
Pages and Numbers will change Word and Excel documents when they open and close them.
Sometimes the change is subtle and sometimes not. With the latest versions of Pages and Numbers, more likely not.
So don't think you are going to work with MsOffice files without problems. You will always have something not right and in some cases really annoyingly not right. Like having all the text from Pages appear bold in MsWord, or page breaks in the wrong place or some objects and graphics not appearing in one or the other.
If working between different Operating Systems and MsOffice files, I also recommend LibreOffice. It opens and saves nearly all file formats. Unfortunately not .pages or numbers. Yet. The folks at LibreOffice are busy adding to it all the time, and making sure it works in all Operating systems, Mac, Windows and Linux and they are promising iOS as well soon.
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Docx file association is set up correctly but does not display Word icon when viewing in Explorer

Problem with MS Word as part of MS Office 2007 Professional Plus running on Windows 7.
When I view a folder in Windows Explorer all docx files show up with a plain white icon, not a Word icon. I have done the following:
Start > Control Panel > Default Programs > Associate a file type or protocol with a program.
Then scrolled down the display and selected the docx extension - it already shows as Microsoft Office Word - clicked on Change Program, reset the program to WordPad, then back in the display clicked on the Change Program icon again. This tiime I reset it
to Microsoft Office Word.
However when I go back into Explorer the icon has not changed. Even if I close it down and restart it again. And even after a reboot.
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Hi orchestrand,
I have the same problem as you and after searching for a day for a definitive solution, i have found this one that works on another forum located here: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/49819-icon-cache-rebuild.html
The reason seems to be that icons stored have for some reason disappeared (inexplicably?). The solution is also stupidly simple after i've tried every suggestion in this thread.
1) go to start menu and search for: cmd
2) right click on cmd and choose "run as administrator" (--> this causes command line to change from C:\users\<account name> to change to: C:\windows\system32).
3) turn off everything you are doing after saving your work because now you will be closing explorer.exe
4) in the command line enter each command separately and with enter following each line
taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
DEL IconCache.db /a
shutdown /r
5) after the restart, everything should be back to normal.
This is a complete fix for the problem and not a work around and I can verify that it worked for me. Good luck all.
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Docx word icon not present

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Hi,
Please take a try with the suggestions offered by tony4554 :
QUOTED:
After many hours of research, installs, uninstalls, reinstalls, repairs, reregistering word etc. etc. I was able to add the Word 97 and 2003 right click menu option by just adding a NullFile string to the “Word.Document.8” key under the
.doc key in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.doc but it would not do anything under the .docx key.
I wanted the 2010 docx of office 2010 functionality.
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I found that four keys were missing in the registry in comparison with my other computer’s installation of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010.
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I opened the registry to – HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.docx
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  (value not set)
2)     Inside of the “OpenWithList” create the second key. Right click on the “OpenWithList” key then go down to New, then left click on Key and name this new key “WordPad.exe”
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Inside of that key is the automatically created String Value (default)  REG_SZ
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http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-files/right-click-menu-in-explorer-desktop-missing-new/f0244fe4-216b-459c-b48f-a3d0396b6b11?tm=1321295233864
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Michael Shao
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Okay, I know there is a user forum at M.´s Mac site but it seems that I cannot even register there without getting into an endless cycle (Please register and type the letters you see below - thank you for registering - now please register and type the letters you see below...". Somehow it fits, though.
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As was stated, Office doesn't have to be "activated" such as what they require say for the Windows OS. Rather, you just need a valid serial number to install it. Now, you'd have to check wether they ping that info home and update a database and keep track of installs, but I'd say no.
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

Thank-you for your prompt response.
I am not prepared to go from Windows 7 back to XP.
The other reference you gave me shows that Microsoft has been aware of the problem for over 1 year and has not yet developed a fix, as they had promised.
I guess i'll have to do without the feature.
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yigit wrote:
right click the word icon, go to properties, find a compatability tab. select windows xp ( service pack3 )
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983097
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