Office desktop icons

[Robin Bignall]

The mention of icons reminded me of a curiosity. I created desktop
icons for Word and other bits of Office2010 by opening Office in all
programs and dragging them to the desktop. But that removes them
completely from all programs. I also notice that in properties of these
shortcuts one can't find the location of the original program; Open File
Location is greyed out. I hate to think what would happen if one of
these shortcuts got corrupted because there's no such program as Word on
my system.

 

[Good Guy]

The mention of icons reminded me of a curiosity. I created desktop
icons for Word and other bits of Office2010 by opening Office in all
programs and dragging them to the desktop. But that removes them
completely from all programs. I also notice that in properties of these
shortcuts one can't find the location of the original program; Open File
Location is greyed out. I hate to think what would happen if one of
these shortcuts got corrupted because there's no such program as Word on
my system.

You need to press shift key before dragging or simply right-click on the
link and choose create short cut and you will get it on your desktop or
you could pin it on your start button.

Good luck.

 

[Bruce Hagen]

The mention of icons reminded me of a curiosity. I created desktop
icons for Word and other bits of Office2010 by opening Office in all
programs and dragging them to the desktop. But that removes them
completely from all programs. I also notice that in properties of these
shortcuts one can't find the location of the original program; Open File
Location is greyed out. I hate to think what would happen if one of
these shortcuts got corrupted because there's no such program as Word on
my system.
--
Robin Bignall
Herts, England

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Do you still have the Office folder in All Programs? Perhaps if you
dragged the "shortcuts" back in it the properties would go back to normal.
If that works, then you can Right Click on each program and Send To |
Desktop (create shortcut).

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

The mention of icons reminded me of a curiosity. I created desktop
icons for Word and other bits of Office2010 by opening Office in all
programs and dragging them to the desktop. But that removes them
completely from all programs. I also notice that in properties of these
shortcuts one can't find the location of the original program; Open File
Location is greyed out. I hate to think what would happen if one of
these shortcuts got corrupted because there's no such program as Word on
my system.

You have dragged the shortcuts from the folder in All Programs (I assume
you mean in the start menu).

Put them back where they were, but note that it seems to be a bit
tricky. Here's one way I do it:

1. Right click on one of the shortcuts on the desktop. Choose Copy from
the pop-up menu.

2. Go to All Programs and navigate to the Microsoft Office folder.

3. Right click that folder and choose paste.

4. You will get a message from UAC asking for permission to do the past.
Be kind enough to say yes.

If you follow those steps carefully, your All Programs folder will be
back to normal and your desktop shortcuts will remain.

If you had been looking when you dropped the shortcuts on the desktop,
you would have seen a pop-up tip saying "Move to desktop". You should
have been copying...

There are other ways to do this, but the above seems easy and it worked
for me (yes, I do test things like this before posting).

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

You will get a message from UAC asking for permission to do the past.

Of course I meant "paste", not "past".

I'm trying to find a fun meaning for what I wrote, but no luck yet

 

[...winston]

The Office Programs menu shortcuts are special shortcuts created by the program during installation. It's normal for them to *not*
point to a location.

You can create shortcuts for them manually if you wish them to have the option to point to the executable file location. Using the
'Send to Desktop' shorcut option when using the Program Menus special Office created shortcut will *not* provide the file location.



--
....winston
msft mvp mail


"Robin Bignall" wrote in message
The mention of icons reminded me of a curiosity. I created desktop
icons for Word and other bits of Office2010 by opening Office in all
programs and dragging them to the desktop. But that removes them
completely from all programs. I also notice that in properties of these
shortcuts one can't find the location of the original program; Open File
Location is greyed out. I hate to think what would happen if one of
these shortcuts got corrupted because there's no such program as Word on
my system.

 

[...winston]

The Office Programs menu shortcuts are special shortcuts created by the program during installation. It's normal for them to *not*
point to a location.

You can create shortcuts for them manually if you wish them to have the option to point to the executable file location. Using the
'Send to Desktop' shorcut option when using the Program Menus special Office created shortcut will *not* provide the file location.



--
....winston
msft mvp mail


"Robin Bignall" wrote in message
The mention of icons reminded me of a curiosity. I created desktop
icons for Word and other bits of Office2010 by opening Office in all
programs and dragging them to the desktop. But that removes them
completely from all programs. I also notice that in properties of these
shortcuts one can't find the location of the original program; Open File
Location is greyed out. I hate to think what would happen if one of
these shortcuts got corrupted because there's no such program as Word on
my system.

 

[Robin Bignall]

You have dragged the shortcuts from the folder in All Programs (I assume
you mean in the start menu).

Put them back where they were, but note that it seems to be a bit
tricky. Here's one way I do it:

1. Right click on one of the shortcuts on the desktop. Choose Copy from
the pop-up menu.

2. Go to All Programs and navigate to the Microsoft Office folder.

3. Right click that folder and choose paste.

4. You will get a message from UAC asking for permission to do the past.
Be kind enough to say yes.

If you follow those steps carefully, your All Programs folder will be
back to normal and your desktop shortcuts will remain.

If you had been looking when you dropped the shortcuts on the desktop,
you would have seen a pop-up tip saying "Move to desktop". You should
have been copying...

There are other ways to do this, but the above seems easy and it worked
for me (yes, I do test things like this before posting).

I'm much obliged to all of you, particularly Gene B. It worked
perfectly.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I'm much obliged to all of you, particularly Gene B. It worked
perfectly.

Meanwhile, another post of yours led me to yet another easy method

I already posted it, but here's a bit of redundancy:

Shift-right-click on a file and voilà! Pin to Start Menu will be in the
menu.

You can do it on the file itself - the result will still be a shortcut
to the file, so you don't need to make a shortcut.

This goes for data files, but it goes for executables as well.

 

[Robin Bignall]

Meanwhile, another post of yours led me to yet another easy method

I already posted it, but here's a bit of redundancy:

Shift-right-click on a file and voilà! Pin to Start Menu will be in the
menu.

You can do it on the file itself - the result will still be a shortcut
to the file, so you don't need to make a shortcut.

This goes for data files, but it goes for executables as well.

But I wanted the shortcuts on the desktop, not in start menu.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

But I wanted the shortcuts on the desktop, not in start menu.

That's because you're in the wrong thread. No, wait a minute, that's
because *I'm* in the wrong thread!

I got this thread mixed up with the thread started by charliec[1] just
ahead of your thread.

I do hope you at least got a laugh out of my confusion - I did, and I'm
only slightly embarrassed.

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