Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc keys on your keyboard and Task Manager will open up. If that is the case, restart the Explorer process should fix your problem.
This is a fresh install of windows 10 and office 2016 on a fresh machine so we dont have a way of seeing if it was windows, office or both that are causing this issue.
What's going on in this last case is that, when you type in 'outlook' in the Start menu, a broken icon for Outlook 2016 comes up. If that is the case, then your desktop icons and taskbar must also be missing. On our administrative account the icons display correctly on the task bar and in file explorer and we are able to pin the app to the task bar. As computer scientists we are trained to communicate with the dumbest things in the world – computers – so you’d think we’d be able to communicate quite well with people. In each case, I removed Office 2016 installations including the little installer stub. Here are a few potential resolutions for users who can’t find their Office app shortcuts on the Start menu. In earlier Windows 10 build versions, Office apps can go missing when there are more than 512 apps on the Start menu’s app list.
Here are couple of "how to" articles for you: MS Office app shortcuts can disappear from the Start menu’s app list for various reasons. Windows 10 Fix Apps Icons are Missing in Start Menu after Installing Feature Update - Last updated on Octoby VG Recently Microsoft released Fall Creators Update for Windows 10 which is a new feature update just like Creators Update, Anniversary Update, etc. You have to create your own custom image files and then manually apply them to the tiles. So, if you want "metro" style tiles for Office programs you have to totally DIY. I suppose at a stretch it may have been excusable for Office 2013, but not for 2016. Naturally the clowns at Office didn't bother talking to the Windoze people. You can do a partial metrofication of the existing tiles by customizing the background color and text color, but that is not really what I think you are looking for.Ĭreating that sort of icon is so far entirely up to the program maker. Sorry, not the way you I think you are asking for. When dragged from the Start Menu, these shortcuts lose the information of the location for the icon and default to using ‘shell32.dll’ as the location for the correct icons which is incorrect for all of the Office 2016 programs as well as many of the specialty programs where the Icons are stored in custom locations.