Solve : Office shortcuts broken?

1.	Solve : Office shortcuts broken?
Answer» All the shortcuts related to OFFICE 10 have ceased to work. They show only a generic icon, and when launched display some MESSAGE a la "This only works for programs currently INSTALLED". These shortcuts seems to be of a special type, i.e. their target field is greyed out and can not be edited. Their target fields are blank in this case. Is there a way to restore these shortcuts without reinstalling Office? Of course it is possible to set up new shortcuts manually, but for some of them I don't know which exe file they refer to. I suppose these special kinds of shortcuts refer to some string in the registry which in turn refer to the actual exe file, and that these registry keys might be broken somehow.Are you able to reinstall the program, which will replace these with working shortcuts?Quote Is there a way to restore these shortcuts without reinstalling Office? Why you resist to do so? I seems that you imply the possibility that I might be using a pirated/borrowed/whatever version of Office and thus not be able to re-install it. Since this was a computer belonging to a customer of mine I have actually no idea whether that was the case. I told the customer to re-install ANYWAY, since I was not able to solve the problem. However, in principle, re-installing is a time-consuming task, and it is therefore preferrable to repair the issues instead.When he has a good clean install on a partition, he should make a drive IMAGE so he can restore more easily the next time.Quote I seems that you imply the possibility that I might be using a pirated/borrowed/whatever version of Office and thus not be able to re-install it. I don't think this was implied at all. Quote However, in principle, re-installing is a time-consuming task, and it is therefore preferrable to repair the issues instead. Sometimes reinstalling Windows can be time consuming, but just sticking in an office CD takes what a minute of your time and 5 minutes of the computer's time? Alright, my wrong assumption. Thanks for your answers. Quote However, in principle, re-installing is a time-consuming task, and it is therefore preferrable to repair the issues instead. In fact repairing is more time consuming then re-installation.Again, it is better to make a drive image, so you can fully restore the system in 30 minutes and then update. This is the main reason why I - never - get these myriad problems.

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All the shortcuts related to OFFICE 10 have ceased to work. They show only a generic icon, and when launched display some MESSAGE a la "This only works for programs currently INSTALLED".

These shortcuts seems to be of a special type, i.e. their target field is greyed out and can not be edited. Their target fields are blank in this case.

Is there a way to restore these shortcuts without reinstalling Office? Of course it is possible to set up new shortcuts manually, but for some of them I don't know which exe file they refer to.

I suppose these special kinds of shortcuts refer to some string in the registry which in turn refer to the actual exe file, and that these registry keys might be broken somehow.Are you able to reinstall the program, which will replace these with working shortcuts?Quote

Is there a way to restore these shortcuts without reinstalling Office?

Why you resist to do so?
I seems that you imply the possibility that I might be using a pirated/borrowed/whatever version of Office and thus not be able to re-install it. Since this was a computer belonging to a customer of mine I have actually no idea whether that was the case. I told the customer to re-install ANYWAY, since I was not able to solve the problem. However, in principle, re-installing is a time-consuming task, and it is therefore preferrable to repair the issues instead.When he has a good clean install on a partition, he should make a drive IMAGE so he can restore more easily the next time.Quote

I seems that you imply the possibility that I might be using a pirated/borrowed/whatever version of Office and thus not be able to re-install it.

I don't think this was implied at all.

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However, in principle, re-installing is a time-consuming task, and it is therefore preferrable to repair the issues instead.

Sometimes reinstalling Windows can be time consuming, but just sticking in an office CD takes what a minute of your time and 5 minutes of the computer's time?
Alright, my wrong assumption. Thanks for your answers.

Quote

However, in principle, re-installing is a time-consuming task, and it is therefore preferrable to repair the issues instead.

In fact repairing is more time consuming then re-installation.Again, it is better to make a drive image, so you can fully restore the system in 30 minutes and then update.

This is the main reason why I - never - get these myriad problems.

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