Windows 10: Unable to open apps using Cortana.

*I have a system running with French as the main language, sentences I put here are translations*


Hey,


I've been toying with Cortana, and enabled 'Hey Cortana'.

I've been trying to use it to open Microsoft Word 2016 lately, but witnessed something strange.

At first I didn't know the proper commands, but I finely figured them out.


By saying 'Launch Microsoft Word 2016' ("Ouvre Microsoft Word 2016"), Cortana understands my request, and tells me 'OK, I'm opening Microsoft Word 2016' ("D'accord, j'ouvre Microsoft Word 2016"), and there is the Microsoft Word logo showing, a text saying that it's opening, and a loader (the blue pixels moving left to right). So I know Cortana gets it, it doesn't just pop a browser with a search on Bing right away. Problem is, after a few seconds, it simply opens Edge with a request for 'Launch Microsoft Word 2016' ("Ouvre Microsoft Word 2016") instead of opening Word, as if the opening was unsuccessful and it followed the 'fallback' behavior.


I know she gets it because if I just ask to 'Launch Microsoft Word' ("Ouvre Microsoft Word"), she asks me to choose one between Wordpad and Word 2016, but then the same behavior occurs.


Can anyone help? I haven't found any thread with the exact same issue.


Word 2016 is installed, there's a shortcut for it on the desktop.


Regards.



***Modified title from: [Cortana says it will open word, but won't]***

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