Windows 10: Custom icons for individual files

How can I change the icon for an individual file? For example, I have a phonelist.docx Word file on my desktop and would like to change the icon from the default Word icon to a telephone icon. How can that be done?

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Setting custom text tones for individual contacts does not work when messaging tone not default

I changed my global text tone back to default, but the individualized text tone still did not work. Just in case, I changed the contact from a synced Google contact to an Outlook contact and also rebooted my phone a number of times. No luck!

 

Setting custom text tones for individual contacts does not work when messaging tone not default

Still outstanding.

Numerous others with the same issue;

How can I fix my custom text tones on contacts? - Windows Central Forums

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Custom SMS tones in Win10 Mobile? - Windows Central Forums

Put beautifully in a post from the last link;

"So one thing I discovered is that if you leave the default SMS tone as-is (not custom), then individual custom SMS tones that you assign to contacts *do* work. There seems to be a conflict when you change the global default SMS tone, and it overrides
the custom contact tones. Hmmm..."

Ringtones can handle this, why not messaging?

 

You could make a shortcut to the docx and change the icon on the shortcut (right click, properties, change icon).

 

Thanks for the tip.

Does that mean that it is impossible to change the icon for "real" files, only for shortcuts?

 

Well, you could change the icon for all .docx to a picture of a telephone or whatever (Change a File Types Icon in Windows 7) but not individually afaik, no.

 

... in other words: it is simply not possible to change the icon just for one individual file (file meaning file, not shortcut to a file) - correct?

 

If you were a programmer you could write an icon handler.

Apart from that it is impossible unless there is some third party tool that does it.