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gabby02, at this point I am guessing that you have used a third party junk/registry cleaner, like TuneUp Utilities ? That thing cleaned up your installer folder, so the office icons are not being shown, and is not being uninstalled. as all the icons and uninstallers are of that program is stored in C:\Windows\Installer. All these are stored there, rightly.
Only one thing can you try, to install office (and adobe reader too, if affected) over the existing installation. It will add the lost system folders in the correct place.
To avoid such mess in future, stop using a third party cleaner program other than ccleaner and please let us know what the outcome is.
Well said ! Third party registry cleaners often wipe up the installer folder .... it is seen many a times. It is better to not use such a program, as those are often called "snake oil". Ccleaner is highly recommended here ... . go for it. Free and fast, and most important is .... it does not clean a thing that is actually useful ... just to show "performance" .
Do a Repair job from oem CD. Do not select "R" at the first prompt, there should be a 2nd "R" option (after press F8).
In the event you have trouble uninstalling Microsoft Office in the future, this MS article may be of use to you.
How to uninstall or remove Microsoft Office 2010 suites
aem mate, I hope you are talking about the OEM Microsoft Office CD ? If so, I am sorry that initially I thought you are talking about OEM windows disk. Using the office installer, either the repair or the full install will fix it .
Office icons are stored in the installer folder, as applications (.exe files) .
The common cause for losing those program icons is a third party registry cleaner (except ccleaner) . They cleans the up the folder entirely. That's why it is not possible to place those back in the place other than those steps.
I did look at the folder where Word.exe, Outlook.exe etc sits before attempting to repair from CD and the icons to the executables aren't broken. Icons only appear to be broken on desktop and in start menu. I had also removed Office from add/remove and reinstall it. Even that didn't work.