Windows 10: The icons of docx. documents suddenly become blank after the upgrade of Microsoft Office to...

I installed the latest version of Microsoft Office with my institutional account this January. After the installation, as the Office app is becoming the new Microsoft 365 app, Word has also been updated the latest version. Today I found that the icons in those docx documents become plain although they can still be directly opened, but those Word documents that I work on in OneDrive with my institutional account are still shown with the Word icon it seems the Word icon is Word 2013, not the latest version. How can I revert the icons of those Word documents in my laptop?

:)

 

Windows 10 WordPad .docx vs. Microsoft Word .docx ?

I do have LibreOffice installed and my WordPad options look just like yours. Are you saying LO somehow added their .docx option to the drop down menu list of WordPad?

 

Trouble loading documents with Office 2010.

I haven't no, I ran the repair tool but haven't yet reinstalled the whole program from scratch, perhaps that is the next thing to try.

- - - Updated - - -

I think I may have solved the issue, I right clicked a DOCX file, and selected Open With, but realised it said Microsoft Office 2010 Component. I then selected Microsoft Word from the list, and it opened. I noticed also that the Word Icon on the document has also changed, so before the icon must have still been from the trial version.

 

.Docx files are not showing word icon but only white plain icon (Windows 10)

Fix for Blank Docx icon with Office 2016 and Office 2019

I tried all suggested solutions with no luck. Deleted icon cache, Reinstall office ,fix office none worked.

So I looked at the Docx registry settings in a working computer using office 2019 .

I copied the files I listed below and this worked 100% and now my Docx files have a word icon

Good luck be safe back up your docx registry key just encase

I wanted the 2019 docx of office 2019 functionality Using Window 10. After upgrading from Office 2013 to 2019 .

I have found out what I had to do to get back the Right-click New Microsoft Word Document function of Office 2019 in Windows Explorer and on the Desktop.

I found that four keys were missing in the registry in comparison with my other computer’s installation of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019.

Remember to back up the .docx key by exporting it to a safe folder so that you could have it if necessary.

I opened the registry to – HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.docx

Steps creating keys are done on the left window pane in the registry.

1) Below the .docx key I create the first key that was missing by right clicking on the “.docx” key then go down to New, then left click on Key and name it “OpenWithList” without the quotes.

Inside of that key is the automatically created String Value (default) REG_SZ (value not set)

2) Inside of the “OpenWithList” create the second key. Right click on the “OpenWithList” key then go down to New, then left click on Key and name this new key “WordPad.exe” without the quotes.

Inside of that key is the automatically created String Value (default) REG_SZ (value not set)

3) Right click on the “.docx” key then go down to New, then left click on Key to create the third key and name it “Word.Document.16” without the quotes.

Inside of that key is the automatically created String Value (default) REG_SZ (value not set)

4) Right click on the “Word.Document.16” key then go down to New, then left click on Key to create the fourth key and name it “ShellNew” without the quotes.

Inside of that key is the automatically created String Value (default) REG_SZ (value not set)

The next thing to do is to create a string value newly created “ShellNew” key but this is done in the window on the right side.

5) Left click on ShellNew in the left window to select the key. Now in the window on the right side; Right click in the empty space go to New then select String Value. Name the new string “NullFile” without the quotes, Type is REG_SZ Leave the data empty.

6) Lastly, in the left window left click on key .docx, In the right side window make sure that the data of the (Default) string is Word.Document.16 – To change it, doubleclick on the string named (Default) , a window will open up and you change the data
value to Word.Document.16 (My data value was “docx_auto_file”)

You are done. Close the registry. Test the right click context menu now.

I hope that this will help some people.