My dock icon missing?

My Excel for Mac dock icon is missing. The space or gap is there and I am able to open the app, except that for some reason there is no icon. All the other Office for Mac app like Windows and Power Point are good. I restarted and the icon is still missing. Is there any setting I can go to?
Thank you.

Dansyacht wrote:
Are you saying you have an invisible icon? If you can launch Excel by clicking on the "gap" try to right or control click and select Options > Remove from Dock. Now find Excel in the application folder and drag it to the dock. Does it show up now?
Thank you. Yes I did that. The first time it didn't work and was still invisible. It worked the second time.
My question now is how did that happened in the first place? Did I clicked on something to make it invisible?

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RSP: 0xffffff820c4b3a30, RBP: 0xffffff820c4b3ac0, RSI: 0xffffff81c01e7268, RDI: 0x0000000000002d1c
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